Water Resources Engineer Intern

Job Description Summary:
 

Salary: $18.54 - $27.82 per hour

As a Water Resources Engineering Intern, you’ll work alongside our engineering team to tackle real-world challenges and gain hands-on experience with TRWD’s pipelines, pump stations, and reservoirs. Our solutions enrich and improve the quality of life for our communities. Interns have the opportunity to contribute to projects in transmission hydraulics, water supply planning, and H&H. You may calculate, study, design, or review solutions to our water resources, hydraulic, or energy challenges.

Job Description

 

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

The duties listed below are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment to this position.

• Solving engineering problems

• Field investigations

• Review and documentation of pipeline hydraulic information

• Participate in hydraulic modeling of transmission systems

• Participate in Water Supply modeling

• Development of pipeline operations tools

• Assisting with water contract management

• Participating with field visits related to TRWD locations and construction sites

• Participating in system and/or flood monitoring

• Collecting and organizing engineering data into usable formats

• Reviewing project reports

• GIS analysis

• Communicating solutions to others through emails or memos

• QA/QC of Water Supply tools and modeling results

• Maintain familiarity with strategic District levels of service

• Continuous improvement monitoring and innovation efforts

• Perform other duties as required

Required Experience/Skills:

• Less than one (1) year of experience

• Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Desired Experience/Skills:

• Experience with Power-BI, SQL, Python, or other data analysis tools

Required Education/Certification/License:

• High School Diploma

• Enrolled in an accredited 4-year college or university majoring in engineering, engineering sciences, or related field

• Valid Texas driver’s license

Desired Education/Certification/License:

• None

Success Factors/Job Competencies:

• Receives supervision and guidance related to performance of tasks

• Willing to work on many different tasks

• Desire to produce high-quality work in a timely manner

• Possess good oral and written communication skills

• Ability to work collaboratively within a team

Physical Demands and Work Environment

 

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Physical demands: While performing duties of job, employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, and use hand to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls, reach with hands and arms, balance, stoop, talk or hear.  Employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

• Work environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee typically resides within an office or cubicle and may have occasional field work, including job sites or construction locations, that will expose the employee to weather conditions prevalent at the time.