Water/Wastewater Intern - Water (Summer 2026)

Learning begins in the classroom but there’s no better place to gain real-world experience than with Stantec. Interns are an integral part of our teams, working to solve some of the world's most complex challenges.

As an intern, you’ll work alongside our experienced practitioners and with our clients and communities. This hands-on experience will equip you with practical skills, build your network, and provide opportunities that set you up for success.

Many of the world’s top engineers and scientists come together in our Water business because they view a community’s interaction with water a bit differently—as a single holistic system, rather than unconnected networks divided by jurisdictional boundaries. Working throughout the hydrologic cycle, we are delivering sustainable solutions to make sure water is where it should be and available when needed. Our experts guide our work with scientific rigor, an innovative spirit, and a vision for growth. Every day, we help communities improve, reuse, and protect this precious resource for future generations. Grow with us, H2O+U.

Your Opportunity

We are seeking a water/wastewater intern to support our Water business in offices across the Southwest. This role will support our local design staff collecting and organizing data, preparing calculations, preparing charts and graphs, modeling using Excel or  modeling software, preparing drawings, backcheck drawing/technical memoranda corrections, writing portions of technical memoranda, researching technical information, proposal and resume writing, client interactions, presentations, note taking, field investigations, coordinating production of reports, and/or support of design documents (plans and specifications). As a Student Intern, you will work in a team environment and have exposure to water infrastructure projects which may include water and wastewater plants, pump stations, water supply and distribution and sewer collection systems.

Key Responsibilities

The Intern must have good attention to detail. They need to possess a willingness to assist full-time staff with various tasks.  The core competencies for this position include:

• Good communication skills: verbal, business writing, electronic communications, and presentations
• Positive attitude with strong relationship building skills
• Flexibility to learn new skills.

Qualifications - External

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Versatility, flexibility, and willingness to work within the team.
• Must be willing and able to take initiative when needed.
• Good MS Office skills including Word and Excel; PowerPoint a plus. 
• Experience in AutoCAD, Revit, Civil 3D a plus.

Education and Experience

• Currently enrolled in college/university and/or on summer break between semesters. 
• Minimum 3.0 GPA. 
• An internship opportunity is the singular best way to discover if a career pathway is right for the candidate.
• An opportunity to apply classroom learning to a real-world environment.
• An opportunity to seek out new experiences.
• A chance to make a meaningful contribution to an organization through quality work for our clients in all aspects of project work – planning, design and construction.
• A resume builder – Stantec experience sets a new graduate apart from the “rest”.
• Discipline mentorship/shadowing with acting professionals.
• Professional coaching to grow your career: resume writing, public speaking, work approaches, communications, and interviewing.

Key Benefits

Typical office environment includes working with computers and remaining sedentary for long periods of time. Some field opportunities may be available.  

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required.  Other activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.

Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on each other’s talents, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us. At Stantec, we live our corporate values every day.

• Stantec was ranked the 8th most sustainable company in the world and the 1st among industry peers by Corporate Knights for our 2025 performance.
• In February 2021, Stantec announced a ple