Summer 2024 Intern Program: Engineering Roles (Long Island, NY)

Find what makes you Superpowered. Become a Gridtern.

As we help clear the path to a greener future, we need to ensure our people continue to power our progress. Our provides current college students the ability to gain practical experience within the energy industry. Your summer will start with us on June 3rd 2024 and will be filled with meaningful work experiences, professional development, networking, opportunities to get involved in your community and most importantly, have fun! Come join us to find what makes you superpowered!

Intern responsibilities will vary based upon your area of interest and department placement. Applying to this opportunity confirms your interest in being considered for one or more of the below departments for summer 2024:

Combustion Turbine Department (Oceanside, NY)

The Combustion Turbine Department operates and maintains over 40 combustion turbine generating units across Long Island, NY. Our units provide reliable, quick-start, dispatchable capacity for the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA). We are continually improving and upgrading systems to modernize our equipment and support the clean energy transition. As a Gridtern in the Combustion Turbine Department, you will be familiarized with the daily operation of site equipment including preventative and corrective maintenance tasks. You will participate in work planning meetings and scheduling of maintenance activities to support reliable operating conditions. You will be exposed to the contractual obligations to our customer, including performance characteristics and data reporting. You will also be involved in project meetings and gain insight into the responsibilities of site engineers.

Future of Heat Gas Asset Management Engineering (Melville, NY)

Our Future of Heat Gas Asset Management Engineering team is focused on bringing National Grid's gas business into a clean energy future. The team develops and implements clean energy projects focusing on Renewable Natural Gas (RNG), Hydrogen Injection, and Networked Geothermal Systems. For the summer you will support RNG interconnections as well as conduct outreach to foster new RNG developers in our territory. You will also be supporting the design and implementation of geothermal projects in NY and MA.

Gas Innovation (Melville, NY)

The Gas Innovation team is responsible for research, development and deployment of new technologies and innovations within our gas business. This team identifies, evaluates, develops pilots, and tests various new technologies focused on improving safety, decarbonizing the gas network, and making our operations more efficient. For the summer, you will be responsible for managing a core project as well as participating in various research opportunities. The projects will vary based on availability but likely will focus on decarbonization efforts, methane emission reduction or new solutions to improve the way we do business.

Gas Materials and Standards (Hicksville, NY)

The Gas Materials and Standards team is responsible for the stock materials used to build our Gas infrastructure. New materials are submitted or sourced by the team to be added to inventory and they perform the initial review to ensure these items meet our requirements and all applicable industry standards and codes. After the items pass the teams review, they are turned over to the Material testing lab to be tested for conformance with these standards, once the materials pass the Lab testing, they are turned back over to Gas Materials and Standards to be rolled out to workers in the field. For the summer, you will build a data base of manufacturer design drawings of the products we use, as well as oversee and administer the record scanning process. You will also be responsible for reviewing construction standards to ensure they are up to date.

Gas Transmission Engineering (Melville, NY)

The Gas Transmission Engineering team provides the expertise and engineering to oversee National Grid's Gas Transmission System. This team is responsible for approximately 1000 miles of high-pressure natural gas pipelines; and must evaluate and balance cost, risk, and performance over the lifecycle of our assets. This group is responsible for designing new pipeline projects, inspecting and maintaining the integrity of existing assets, and strategizing and planning ways to minimize risk, improve reliability and maximize the life of our gas transmission assets across the US. For the summer, you will be able to design/drawing review; strategy and planning, decision making, management of change; data gathering and identifying trends; process automation and data visualization; risk analysis; and safety/code compliance for our gas transmission pipelines.

Lab and Testing (Melville, NY)

The Materials Testing Lab serves three functions for the gas side of our company: new material testing, failure analysis and research and development support. All new materials go through the lab for vigorous evaluation before the company can buy them. Whenever materials fail, they are sent to the lab for evaluation; the lab then determines whether the root cause of the failure was operator error or material defect. R&D projects range greatly: new tooling and technology are frequently tested, and hydrogen blending experiments have been conducted by the lab. As a Gridtern, you will be able to assist with database management and updating, as well as additional special projects throughout the summer.

Maintenance Services (Island Park, NY)

The Plant Maintenance team is responsible for the planning and scheduling of scheduled outages for our Steam Plants and Combustion Turbine Fleet. For the summer, you will have the opportunity to familiarize yourself with heat rate of our Steam units. You will also be assigned summer projects which could include capital addition type of work. Projects and day to day work will be discussed during the interview.

National Grid Ventures - GENCO (Wading River, NY)

The National Grid Ventures GENCO team conducts the daily operations and maintenance of over 1000MW of fast start generation capacity using Aeroderivative and heavy-duty Industrial Gas Turbines. For the summer, you will perform daily Heat Rate Analysis of operating units, provide onsite support of plant staff on coordination and execution of Capital Improvement projects, and develop tracking lists
to assist in the coordination and execution of Combustion Turbine maintenance activities.

National Grid Ventures - Northport Power Station (Northport, NY)

The NGV Northport Power Station makes it a priority to keep the lights on for Long Island Power Authority (LIPA's) 1.1 million customers on Long Island. As the energy mix changes, the team is ensuring there is sufficient electric capacity and energy for all of LIPA's customers. The need for reliable and secure supplies of power will remain as the energy transition progresses. The team understands better than most the link between maintaining stability of electric supply today and the transition to a clean energy future. For the summer, you will perform technical investigations and administrative tasks related to power plant operation and maintenance.

NY Gas Complex Construction - Project Management (Melville, NY)

The New York Gas Complex Project Management team is accountable for the successful execution of complex projects in support of delivering our NY Rate Case commitments. The team leverages the Network Delivery Process through cross-functional collaboration to drive on-schedule, on-budget, and in-scope performance. This team creates value mitigating risk, assuring capital efficiencies, accurately forecasting, and providing transparency of project performance to our Stakeholders. For the summer, you will have the opportunity to assist in gas construction projects and visit various project sites to report and follow up on their construction activities. These could be gas distribution, transmission, LNG, hydrogen, RNG, or geothermal. You will be assigned a project to develop and modernize our document management and archiving system for the NY Gas Project Management team.

Pipeline Safety Continuous Improvement (Melville, NY)

Our Pipeline Safety Continuous Improvement team is responsible for delivering process improvements within our end-to-end compliance processes programs and transformational initiatives as well as support the overall Gas Pipeline Safety and Compliance Strategy. As a Gridtern, you will have the opportunity to support data analytics efforts associated with process improvement projects as well as the automation of data analysis and reporting.

Pressure Regulation Gas Asset Engineering (Melville, NY)

The Pressure Regulation Gas Asset Engineering team builds and maintains a safe, reliable, and robust gas transmission and distribution system and optimizes the return on investment from assets related to gas pressure regulation. This includes over 1700 pressure regulating stations, nearly 100 custody transfer stations, 1000 remote data acquisition terminals (RTU's), and 250 natural gas heaters. For the summer, you will have the opportunity to work closely with Engineers to develop work plans for Capital projects, develop operation and maintenance schedules for all asset, coordinate fieldwork and investigation to evaluate asset conditions, assist in the review of design and maintenance standards and make recommendations for program improvements.

Project Engineering and Design, LNG/CNG (Melville, NY)

The Project Engineering & Design (PE&D) team is responsible for the design of large-scale projects allowing for the safe operation of our Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) and Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) facilities. These projects can include updates to existing systems or design and installation of new equipment such as pumps, compressors, fire extinguishing systems, and equipment needed to convert liquid natural gas into a gas. PE&D is also responsible for designing systems for new technologies in the fields of hydrogen and Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) to blend into the gas system. For the summer, you will contribute to the gas engineering and design for our New York LNG & CNG facilities, RNG facility projects, as well as assist with the procurement of materials and equipment for those projects. You will be able to provide technical engineering support for our projects during the construction phase which will include field visits to confirm installation/construction conforms with design, as well as review and maintain project files and drawings.

Technical Renewable Services (Northport, NY)

The Technical Renewable Services team conducts High Voltage Electrical Maintenance for National Grid Ventures (NGV) Generation. This team also performs various work including, DC Battery Systems, Generator Protection, mandated environmental testing and turbine efficiency testing. For the summer, you will be assisting union workforce in electrical maintenance, troubleshooting, and asset management. You will also be able to coordinate with Power Engineering on various electrical systems including DC emergency backup, AC high voltage electrical and generator protection systems.

• Availability to start on program start date, June 3, 2024 and work full-time (40 hours a week) throughout your duration of the summer
• Registered in school as a full-time student and continuing education full-time for Fall 2024 Semester
• Pursuing a Bachelor's, or Master's degree
• Majoring in Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, Chemical, Industrial Engineering, or a related field
• Accumulated 18 or more credits and be 18 years of age
• Work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States
• Located within a commutable distance to the identified work location for the summer
• Some Gridtern positions will require a valid US Driver's license. This qualification will be included in the department specific Gridtern role(s) descriptions at point of interview

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