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MidAmerican Energy Company · 1 month ago

Intern - System Protection Engineering

Davenport, IA

Internship

Onsite

Intern

Start in 2026 Spring

MidAmerican Energy Company is one of the largest renewable energy producers in the U.S., headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa. The System Protection Engineering intern will work on various projects within the energy industry, applying their knowledge of electrical engineering to real-world situations while gaining valuable experience.

Customer ServiceEnergyHome Services

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Duties will involve working with protection and control systems that are responsible for safely operating and protecting the electric grid. These duties could include:

Reading and interpreting construction documents and drawings for medium and high voltage protection and control equipment

Developing protection system calculations and studies

Preparing designs on projects requiring basic engineering skills

Producing relay settings for Generators, Transformers, Buses, Transmission Line, Reactors/Capacitors, and Distribution Equipment

Creating RTU configurations for Generation, Transmission, and Distribution Substations

Investigating protection system operations

Modeling the transmission system to perform short circuit and protection system coordination studies

Opportunity to work with one or more System Protection Department functional teams based upon qualifications and interest: Transmission Protection, Distribution Protection, Operational Data Analysis, CAPE Database Maintenance, Reliability & Compliance, Relay Projects or SCADA, Telemetering & RTU

Additional projects as assigned under the direction of qualified engineering staff

Qualification

Electrical engineeringReading engineering drawingsAnalytical skillsProject managementSoftware skillsPrioritizationVerbal communicationWritten communicationProblem-solving

Required

Must be a college student, sophomore or higher standing, currently enrolled in a bachelor's degree program in electrical engineering

Must be available May-August 2026

Must have the ability to read and interpret engineering drawings

Preferred

Prior energy industry experience helpful but not required

Company

MidAmerican Energy Company

MidAmerican Energy Company is an electric and natural gas service provider in Iowa. It is a sub-organization of Berkshire Hathaway.

Founded in 1994

Des Moines, Iowa, USA

1001-5000 employees

https://www.midamericanenergy.com

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