Summer 2025 Intern Program: Albany, NY

Find your superpower with the Gridtern Program  

As a Summer Intern (Gridtern Program), you will be fully immersed in the energy industry. Your summer will start with us on May 27, 2025, and will be filled with meaningful work experiences, professional development, networking, opportunities to get involved in your community and most importantly, have fun!   

 

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 2025: 

Change Delivery (Albany, NY) 

Our Change Delivery team is responsible for supporting our Upstate New York Programs and Dispatch teams that sit within our company’s Gas Operations department. The team continues to develop innovative strategies to improve areas such as Damage Prevention, Service Line Inspection, Leak Survey, Meter Shop, Corrosion, and Dispatch for the Upstate New York region. In addition, they are responsible for creating a sustainable work plan to ensure compliance metrics are met. As a Gridtern, you will have the opportunity to utilize PowerBI to improve our reporting tools and help support a deeper and more efficient analysis for each of these teams.  

 

Distribution Design (Albany, NY) 

Our Distribution Design team provides designs and support for National Grid's distribution projects ensuring the delivery of fiscally responsible work plans that adhere to standards for permitting, easement acquisition, costs, and construction. As a Gridtern, you will assist in developing and automating processes, procedures, and programs to drive efficiency within our organization. You will also work on preparing and reviewing reports to track projects and required metrics along with developing job aids to assist in training both current and new designers. 

 

EAME - NY Distributed Generation Liaison (Albany, NY)  

Our NY Distributed Generation (DG) Liaison team is responsible for maintaining our company’s priorities and maximizing its effectiveness in meeting state and company clean energy goals within the New York area. This team continues to find ways to improve our end-to-end processes, foster cultural change across all functions, improve its relationship with customers/ developers and the perceptions of company with NY State regulators.  As a Gridtern, you will support engineers in evaluating and assessing new technologies and research funding opportunities.  In addition, you will prepare newsletters highlighting key projects and initiatives being led while assisting in preparing updates for our distributed generation interconnection standards. 

Gas Distribution Engineering (Albany, NY) 

Our Gas Distribution Engineering team is responsible for providing completed engineering design packages for our construction teams to execute in the field. This team works on several project drivers including proactive leak prone pipe replacement work, gas distribution system reinforcement and reliability improvements, and public works. As a Gridtern, you will assist with routine data management tasks including providing project design status updates and progress analysis. In addition, you will also support various bookkeeping / record scrubbing to assess quality of historical data and mapping records.   

 

Integrated Planning and Solutions (Albany, NY) 

Our Integrated Planning and Solutions team participates in the development, implementation and management of new technologies while continuously finding ways for automation. This team is responsible for engaging with stakeholders, government agencies, consenting authorities and media within the development phases of a project. As they work to determine options to be considered for the project at initiation to satisfy the need case for investment.  This team ensures that a robust basis of design is produced for each scheme – documenting the reasons for the investment, each options considered, costs and program. As a Gridtern, you will work on providing a perspective to each business development from an engineering lens towards new concepts. Additionally, you will work on brainstorming new options to be considered for each project at the initiation stage.   

 

NY Customer Sales and Solutions / EV & DR Implementation (A