Intern - Fall 2025 - NorthStar Clean Energy

NorthStar Clean Energy decarbonizes the economy by providing clean energy and carbon management solutions to utility, municipal, commercial, and industrial customers enabling them to meet their sustainability and business goals. Additionally, we own and operate natural gas assets throughout the United States. To learn more about NorthStar Clean Energy, please visit www.northstarcleanenergy.com.

This position is with NorthStar Clean Energy, a CMS Energy company, and is not a position of employment with Consumers Energy.

Why should you join our team?

The Engineering Internship Program is geared toward current college students who have a passion for Engineering and an interest in NorthStar Clean Energy and the renewable energy industry. The Engineering Internship Program at NorthStar Clean Energy has core principles of skill development, ability enhancement, and knowledge application – an experience designed to be complementary to traditional classroom instruction. Come join us and #FindYourNorthStar!

What you will do:

Current college students of all levels will work as part of a larger team to provide hands-on support and design/development for various engineering, real-world aspects of our business. This includes work at the Dearborn Industrial Generation location. In addition to working alongside full-time employees carrying out engineering functions for NorthStar Clean Energy.

Mechanical/Environmental/Civil Engineering Intern assignments may include opportunities in:

- Regulatory reporting

- Performance metrics project management

- Improve our data room management

- Tracks and processes for project management

There are so many new, exciting opportunities in the world of engineering. It’s a very exciting time for NorthStar Clean Energy; come be a part of history – and fun!

IMPORTANT NOTE: This position is for Fall 2025 term in a part-time role. This position will be based in our Dearborn Industrial Generation power plant.

We encourage you to apply if you possess the following:

- Actively enrolled and pursuing an ABET-accredited Bachelor's degree in Engineering, with a specific focus in Mechanical, Civil, or Environmental Engineering. The following MUST be true to be eligible for an Intern role.

- A current student:

- currently pursuing Bachelor's in Engineering at ABET school OR

- currently pursuing a Master's in Engineering at ABET school OR

- currently pursuing an Engineering-related Master's while having completed a Bachelor's in Engineering at ABET school

- Minimum GPA requirement of 2.7 or higher.

- Candidates for positions with NorthStar Clean Energy must be legally authorized to permanently work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

The following skills and experience may set you apart:

- Ability to be flexible and adaptable to new assignments and projects

- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills

- Attitude and aptitude to learn new skills and concepts

- Ability and willingness to work independently or as part of a team to complete tasks

- Prior work and/or internship experience

- Hands-on experience with MS Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint)

Working Conditions:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; stand; walk; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; and reach with hands and arms. The employee frequently is required to talk or hear. The employee must frequently lift and move up to ten pounds and occasionally lift and move up to 35 pounds. The recommended maximum weight for employees to lift without the aid of other employees of lifting device is 35lbs. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. The noise level on the power plant is often loud.

For consideration, please remember to upload your College Transcript(s) [official OR unofficial] and supporting documentation into the "Supporting Documents" section of your application.

Why should you join our team?

At NorthStar Clean Energy, we offer more than just a place to work. We foster a culture that supports career development, growth, and stability, and we take pride in offering our co-workers excellent benefits and compensation packages. We are deliberately creating an inclusive culture that makes our diverse team of co-workers feel valued, supported, and empowered every day. We're a company made up of thousands of people, all with different stories to share and work to do, but we stand united in our company purpose: world class performance delivering hometown service.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion:

We, at NorthStar Clean Energy, value Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion. It is part of our DNA. We treat our employees with respect, we treat each other fairly and we value the opinions of others. We are passionate about building and nurturing an environment where everyone feels included. We don’t discriminate. We seek to learn about each other and better understand our unique differences. Our uniqueness makes us authentic. We create safe spaces where everyone can be who they truly are. We invite difficult conversations and uncomfortable topics. We value diverse perspectives; this is what makes us great together. We harbor an inclusive environment where employees feel empowered to share their backgrounds, experiences, and ideas. Our Employee Resource Groups, Women’s Advisory Panel (WAP), Women’s in Energy (WE), Minority Advisory Panel (MAP), Pride Alliance of Consumers Energy (PACE), GENERGY, capable, Interfaith and Veterans Advisory Panel (VAP) are key enablers to living the values of our company culture: Caring, Empowered, Deliberate, Agility, and Ownership.

All qualified applicants will not be discriminated against and will receive consideration for employment without regard to protected veteran status, disability, race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.

Nearest Major Market: Dearborn

Nearest Secondary Market: Detroit

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