Intern, Chilled Water Plant

What You Can Expect

Our Chilled Water Plant Intern, located at the University of Iowa campus, will work closely with our plant staff. This team oversees chillers in four plants across campus and interfaces with systems in each building served by the chilled water system. The intern will gain insights into plant operations, contribute to materials inventory tracking development and execution, and learn to operate various systems.

We are actively seeking an intern available for 5-15 hours per week during the semester, with a commitment of 40 hours per week during the summer internship program. Our operational hours are from 7 am to 3:30 pm, and we provide flexibility within this timeframe for start and end times. This internship is open for the Spring/Summer semester, with employment planned to continue until December 31, 2025.

On a daily basis, you will collaborate with our Chilled Water Plant Manager, as well as the operations and maintenance teams. You will participate in diverse tasks such as data collection and analysis, modeling, and providing recommendations for system design enhancements, operational procedures, preventative maintenance programs, purchasing, and record-keeping systems.

What You’ll Bring

Additional Details

Compensation

Salary Range: $21.00 – $32.00 USD hourly

This represents the average expected pay range for a qualified candidate.

Actual offered salary may depend on geography, experience, industry knowledge, education, internal pay alignment, or other bona fide factors.

ENGIE complies with all federal, state, and local minimum wage laws. Actual salary offered may vary depending on geography, experience, education, internal pay alignment, or other bona fide factors.

Your Talent Acquisition Partner can share more specific information regarding the benefits or the salary for the position based on the work location

Why ENGIE?

ENGIE North America isn’t just participating in the Zero-Carbon Transition, we’re leading it! Join us as we develop energy that is renewable, efficient, and accessible to everyone.

In 2020 The University of Iowa (UI) entered a 50-year, trailblazing partnership with the University of Iowa Energy Collaborative (UIEC), a joint venture between ENGIE, Meridiam, and Hannon Armstrong, to operate, maintain and enhance the university’s Utility System. As the founding member of this joint venture, ENGIE designs, builds, operates, and maintains the energy infrastructure delivering safe, reliable, cost-effective, and sustainable energy solutions in producing and distributing steam, electricity, chilled water, and domestic water to the main campus in Iowa City, Iowa and a nearby satellite campus.

At ENGIE, our goal is to support, promote, and thrive on diversity, equity, and inclusion. We do so for the benefit of our employees, customers, products and services, and community. ENGIE is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace, and we are firmly committed to creating an equitable and inclusive environment for all employees.

We are committed to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.

If you need assistance with this application or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at ENGIENA-ENGIEHR@engie.com. This email address is reserved for individuals with disabilities in need of assistance and is not a means of inquiry regarding positions or application status.

We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role at any time.

The safety of our employees is our number one priority. All employees at ENGIE have both a duty and the authority to STOP WORK if unsafe acts are observed.

Business Unit: GBU Energy Solutions

Division: ESI NORTHAM

Legal Entity: ENGIE North America Inc.

Professional Experience: Junior (experience < 3 years)

Education Level: High School Diploma/GED/A Levels