Engineering Intern - Energy & Resources

Title: Engineering Intern - Energy & Resources (Summer 2027) Location: Irvine, CA, USA Posted Date: 2026-09-18 Employment Type: Full time

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.

Explore a career that takes on one of the world’s largest challenges – Energy. At Stantec, you can become part of a team that designs local, national, and international hydroelectric projects that power the globe with safe, reliable, renewable and clean energy. Stantec is an industry leading consultant engineering firm that is actively involved with a wide range of hydropower and dam projects, developing feasibility studies for future projects, and solving unique problems with innovative custom designs to meet the client’s needs.

Your Opportunity

Stantec's Energy practice has an opportunity for highly motivated Engineering Student Interns to join our team in Irvine or Pasadena, California to work on hydropower and dam projects. This is a great opportunity to work with industry leading professionals in your field of study.

Candidates should be highly motivated and dependable students who are taking or have taken applicable engineering courses. This is a terrific opportunity for a college student to make impactful contributions to relevant projects, learn about the hydropower and dam consulting engineering industries, and earn a competitive wage!

Your Key Responsibilities

• Provide engineering support for a variety of design and ongoing construction projects, coordination with other engineering disciplines and CAD designers.

Responsibilities will include review of construction submittals, design calculations and report preparation, product research and outreach, occasional site visits, and various project-related tasks.

Pay Transparency: In compliance with pay transparency laws, pay ranges are provided for positions in locations where required. Please note, the final agreed upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. At Stantec certain roles are bonus eligible. Actual compensation for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on the agreed number of working hours per week.

Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) have access to medical, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health saving accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase program, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage and paid family leave. Regular full-time and part-time employees will receive ten paid holidays in each calendar year. In addition, employees will be eligible to accrue vacation between 10 and 20 days per year and eligible for paid sick leave (and if more generous, in accordance with state and local law).

Temporary/casual employees have access to 401(k) plans, employee stock purchase program, and paid leave, in accordance with state and local law.

The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Excellent analytical, organizational, written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to work in a team environment

• Self-motivated

• Basic understanding of CAD drafting software (i.e., AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Inventor, and/or Revit), and MS Office software

Education and Experience

• Enrollment in an accredited Engineering program

• At least two years of college education and are within approximately two years of graduation

• At least a 3.0 GPA is preferred

Typical office environment working with computers and working at a desk for long periods of time. Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather.

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and 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. Join us and redefine your personal best.

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Excellent analytical, organizational, written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to work in a team environment

• Self-motivated

• Basic understanding of CAD drafting software (i.e., AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Inventor, and/or Revit), and MS Office software

Education and Experience

• Enrollment in an accredited Engineering program

• At least two years of college education and are within approximately two years of graduation

• At least a 3.0 GPA is preferred

Typical office environment working with computers and working at a desk for long periods of time. Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather.

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and 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. Join us and redefine your personal best.