Summer 2025 Intern Program: Long Island, NY
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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:
Combustion Turbine (Holtsville, NY)
Our Combustion Turbine team is responsible for the operation and maintenance of our Electricity Generation Operations fleet of Gas Turbine and Diesel generating units on Long Island. As a Gridtern, you will provide engineering support to the Combustion Turbine Operations and Maintenance staff and will review unit operation performance summaries to aid in targeting equipment maintenance requirements. You will also develop an overall familiarity of both aero derivative and heavy-duty industrial gas turbines used in power generation applications.
Controls & Compliance (Melville, NY)
Our Controls and Compliance team supports the Gas Field Operation team with all compliance aspects in downstate New York. We ensure compliance and rate case requirements are successfully implemented and sustained within the operations organization. As a Gridtern, you will partake in editing and updating Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), you will review the Gas Business Enablement (GBE) compliance report to prepare for the GBE salesforce solution in NYC in October 2025. You will also monitor and report on Work Flow Manager (WFM) orders that impact compliance related reporting, review existing reports for NYC and LI and identify opportunities to convert to Power BI, and you will participate in our DEI Council.
Customer Connection Equipment Engineering – NY (Melville, NY)
Our Customer Connection Equipment team is responsible for developing and implementing the strategy to maintain the integrity of our customer connection assets. These assets include gas meters, communication modules, service regulators, and other above ground equipment for over 2.5M customers throughout New York state. As a Gridtern, you will perform basic or standard engineering assessments using large amounts of data on our connection equipment assets and analyzing historical trends to validate the risk mitigation strategy.
Customer Process Improvement (Melville, NY)
Our Customer Process Improvement team identifies the root cause of issues and designs process changes to improve cost, quality, and throughput for our customer facing, backend and the digital spaces. As a Gridtern, you will learn how to find and then fix process issues (including obtaining LCS 1A certification in Lean problem solving.) You will also support data analysis, process health measurement, and value stream mapping to help identify problems and will work together with experienced Process Improvement Managers and Leads to design, test and implement improvements.
Distribution Engineering LI (Brightwaters, NY)
Our Distribution Engineering team is responsible for the design and management of gas infrastructure upgrades for the natural gas distribution system within the Long Island region. Our team primarily designs and manages gas main replacement projects as part of New York's Department of Public Service mandated programs. As a Gridtern within Distribution Engineering team, you will be primarily tasked with developing and implementing a future strategy for phased / large scale community
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