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California Water Service
Job Description:
The Engineering Intern is responsible for assisting with projects and tasks across the State of California, within the assigned Engineering department. The position will provide support of projects, regulatory requirements, and Company goals, and may work on small projects, as well as large projects under the guidance of a project manager within the Engineering Department. Our internship opportunities are available in Bakersfield, Chico, San Jose, and Torrance, CA.
The position will last for approximately 1 year, with the expectation that the intern would work full time during the summer and part time during the school year. The intern will work with their manager to establish a schedule that will allow them to complete their work while still attending their university classes.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Capital Delivery Interns - Civil, Construction, Electrical and Engineering (Multiple Disciplines)
- Provides support including budgeting, planning, designing, permitting, bidding, and managing construction of capital projects. These projects include wells, tanks, pump stations, pipelines, treatment plants, power distribution, motor control, instrumentation, communications motor controls, emergency standby generators, SCADA and PLC control systems, and radio communications. Projects may be new installations or modifications to existing facilities.
- Performs water meter service sizing calculations and in accordance with design standards
- Reviews district operations water facility design drawings
- Related field work travel, vendor presentations, and assigned classes
- Provides support for procurement for design and construction projects
- Provides support property acquisition projects
- General tasks including administrative tasks, status reporting, attending group meetings, and data gathering and processing
Main Replacement Program Interns - Civil
- Provides support including budgeting, planning, designing, permitting, bidding, and managing construction of pipeline based capital projects. Projects may be new installations or modifications to existing facilities.
- Reviewing district operations water facility design drawings
- Related field work travel, vendor presentations, and assigned classes
- General tasks including administrative tasks, status reporting, attending group meetings, and data gathering and processing
Asset Management Interns - Engineering (Multiple Disciplines)
- Responsible to support a variety of capital projects and infrastructure reliability programs
- Participates in large water system improvement projects under the guidance of Project Engineers and Supervising Engineers
- Leads smaller projects, completing the design, bidding, procurement, and construction management of the project
- Provides support including Asset Condition Monitoring and data analysis on asset data such as pumping equipment, generators, control valves, storage tanks, flow meters, control equipment, and other assets
- Develops engineering estimates and budgets to support capital improvement planning
- Performs engineering analyses
- Utilizes enterprise resource systems to support business activities
- Presents project findings to senior leadership prior to the end of an assignment
- Assist in a variety of field activities such as job walks and inspections
- General tasks including administrative tasks, status reporting, attending group meetings, and data gathering and processing
Operations Engineering Interns - Hydraulic Modeling and Analysis
- Works alongside experienced engineers in reviewing water system operations including information gathering, data analytics and theoretical hydraulic calculations.
- Supports the team and Company with conducting research on existing infrastructure using electronic databases, maps, drawings, photos, and paper files.
- Will be exposed to the use of hydraulic models including the interpretation of mass data sets from modeling results.
- Reviews system documentation and information for updates to maps and schematics.
- Related fieldwork travel and assigned trainings.
- General tasks including administrative tasks, status reporting, attending group meetings.
Capital Planning and Budgeting Intern - Engineering (Multiple Disciplines)
- Reviews and analyzes capital project data from past capital projects
- Scheduling, resource planning and cost development for future projects
- Supports coordination between the Planning and Budgeting team in developing the Infrastructure Improvement Plan
- Summarizes water resources studies and developing projects based on their recommendations.
- Researches new technologies useful for Capital Planning process improvement
- Supports hydraulic modeling efforts within team
- Works on GIS data and other spatial databases for Capital Planning purposes
- General tasks including administrative tasks, status reporting, attending group meetings, and data gathering and processing
Engineering Enterprise Asset Management / Geographic Information System - Technician
- Compiles and reports data for water infrastructure analysis and capital planning.
- Assists with research and analysis, performs queries, prepares reports, and analyzes spatial data.
- Develops and updates various maps for exhibits, reports, and meetings at different scales and layouts through the use of GIS/ desktop software (ArcGIS) and standard templates.
- Works with staff on the maintenance of GIS data.
- Reads and interprets construction drawings (as-builts) to accurately create and edit GIS data.
- Engages with field staff to resolve issues with construction drawings (as-builts)
- May prepare and deliver presentations and attend various meetings. May assist with planning and coordinating GIS projects.
- Performs field data collection using high-accuracy GPS device.
- General tasks including administrative tasks, status reporting, attending group meetings, and data gathering and processing
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Engineering roles: Junior, Senior or Master's Degree level student studying Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a similar discipline. Technician Roles: Engineering students studying Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Business Administration or a similar discipline or students in a technical program for AutoCAD or GIS. Must be a student for the entire duration of the internship (approximately one year) Excellent verbal and written communication skills Excellent organization and multi-tasking skills Project management skills Experience with Excel, Word and other Microsoft programs Experience working in an engineering capacity desirable Experience with construction and contractors desirable Experience working with consultants desirable Experience in water and wastewater desirable Experience with AutoCAD and/or Civil 3D desirable Comfortability with technology and ability to learn new programs and obtain accurate results Understanding of fluid dynamics and groundwater resources desirable Engineer in Training certification desirable Valid driver license Eligibility for employment in the US is required without sponsorship
Salary Range: $25.00 - $27.00 Deadline to submit resume is Sunday, March 16, 2025. The Equal Opportunity Policy of the Company is based upon the philosophy that all people should be treated fairly and with dignity. California Water Service, Hawai'i Water Service, New Mexico Water Service, Texas Water Service, and Washington Water Service do not discriminate against any applicant or employee because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other protected class. The Company makes all employment decisions in a non-discriminatory manner. EOE, VET, DISABILITIES.
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California Water Service Company
Jan 21, 2025