Summer 2025 Intern Program: Engineering (Eastern MA)

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: 

Distribution Planning and Asset Management (North Andover, MA) 

Our Distribution Planning and Asset Management team is part of the Electric Asset Management & Engineering team for the entire National Grid footprint. This team continues to find ways to apply cutting-edge technology to ensure they are upgrading and modifying aging infrastructure along with embracing and integrating smart technologies throughout. As this team works daily on several projects, their culture is self-directed and empowered, embracing the accountability inherent in our roles. As a Gridtern, you will support with evaluating co-generation interconnection requests regarding their impact on the distribution system and develop plans for suitable connection. In addition, you will help investigate complex customer voltage complaints and resolve customer issues and operating problems, i.e., fault duty calculations, stray voltage, power quality, motor start, etc. 

 

Electric Distribution Design (North Andover, MA & Brockton, MA) 

Our Electric Distribution Design team is responsible for conducting the fieldwork and designs and supporting various tasks to complete the estimates and construction packages for our Electric Operations construction department.  This team interacts closely with external customers to support their construction and electrical service needs along with connecting with internal customers to assist with their company asset projects.  As a Gridtern, you will be connecting with engineers, supervisors and managers in the department to complete tasks that support the overall designs, prioritization and work management of the projects that pass through our department.  This could include conducting site visits for customer meetings or collecting field information, initiating work in our work management system, attending meetings, and creating and analyzing reports. 

Gas Pipeline Safety and Compliance (Waltham, MA) 

Our Compliance Performance Oversight team falls within the Gas Pipeline Safety and Compliance department. This team serves as the second line insurance to make sure our gas pipeline work stays in compliance with regulatory requirements. In addition, this team also conducts control testing, deliver step changes in our compliance performance through 1st and 2nd lines of assurance while providing oversight on programs to the GBU to remediate noncompliance. Lastly, this team helps to manage the reporting of mandated programs and pipeline safety incidents across the GBU and oversight of Regulatory Management of Change process. As a Gridtern, you will work closely with team members to ensure best practice program, portfolio, and project governance and controls are set in place and maintained. Additionally, with the use of data analysis, you will work with and support project owners, to drive and challenge delivery to ensure that their projects are delivered on time, cost, and quality and that business benefit realization is managed. 

 

Liquid Natural Gas - Operations (Dorchester, MA) 

Our Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) - Operations team works to provide supplemental gas supplies to our system during periods of high demand due to low temperatures or loss of system pressure.  Within this team, the Compliance & Training group covers three states along with ten LNG plants to ensure high levels of regulatory and company policy compliance are upheld at all times. With internal audits/inspections, risk analysis, and standardization across the enterprise, this team ensures all areas are maintained and deemed safe. As a Gridtern, you will create work instruction on the process workflow along with analyzing multiple spreadsheets used to collect data to develop a comprehensive database to use for Power BI Dashboard. 

Liquid Natural Gas - Special Projects (Lo