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Western Farmers Electric Cooperative · 1 week ago

INTERN - Electric Utility Engineering Internship

Western Farmers Electric Cooperative (WFEC) is recruiting for an Electric Utility Engineering Internship targeted at junior or senior students in Electrical or Civil Engineering. The internship provides hands-on experience in assisting various engineering teams with tasks related to transmission and substation design, project engineering, and compliance with industry standards.

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Responsibilities

Under the direction of an engineer, participate in project work by monitoring, scheduling, and performing project engineering tasks
Assist Transmission Switch and Substation design engineering in relation to construction of new as well as upgrading existing stations and components within the stations
Transmission Line design engineers with construction and upgrading of new and existing transmission lines
Assist Transmission Protection and Control engineering in relation to protection and controls on the transmission system
Participates in and completes assigned duties regarding protection and control studies with members of the engineering team
Assists with real-time studies to maintain system operating limits in compliance with North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) standards
Assists in Planning studies which include power flow, transient stability, short-circuit, contingency analysis, generation dispatch, and others to determine the feasibility of interconnections, planned transmission upgrades, generation additions, facilities necessary to accommodate Southwest Power Pool (SPP) transmission service requests, generation interconnection requests, and others as needed
Assist in the reviewing of design prints
Provide end of summer presentation covering items that you have learned
Assist in organizing our document control area; this consists of reviewing drawings and filing those drawings in the appropriate areas
Assist in developing technical specifications for projects
Assist in the short-term and long-term project planning process
Assist in gathering, analyzing, and reviewing data in preparation for a NERC Audit. This data could consist of drawings, reports, attestations, and other pieces of information that could be used as evidence to show our compliance with industry standards
Assist Transmission engineering personnel with projects related to field work such as surveying, staking jobs and taking detailed field notes

Qualification

Electrical EngineeringCivil EngineeringProject ManagementMS Office SuiteAnalytical SkillsMultitaskingWritten CommunicationOral CommunicationOrganizational Skills

Required

Must be a full-time student at a college or university with a declared Electrical or Civil Engineering major
Excellent written and oral communications skills
Proficiency in MS Office Suite including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Ability to research, organize and report using traditional resources as well as the internet
Analytical skills
Must be organized, efficient and able to multitask
Self-directed project management skills
Requires a current driver's license
Must regularly lift and or move up to 50 pounds

Preferred

Engineering junior or senior (preferred)

Company

Western Farmers Electric Cooperative

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Western Farmers Electric Cooperative is a member of Touchstone Energy the national brand for the electric cooperatives around the US.

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
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