BOLT Intern -Permitting

What We Are Looking For

The BOLT (Building Opportunities & Learning Together) Intern Program is Kinder Morgan’s elite summer internship program. Do you want to spend your summer gaining hands-on experience in the energy industry while enhancing your professional and interpersonal skills? At Kinder Morgan, you will have the opportunity to do just that by participating in meaningful projects that support our vision of delivering energy to improve lives and create a better world.

Kinder Morgan is one of the largest energy infrastructure companies in North America. We have an interest in or operate approximately 78,000 miles of pipelines and 136 terminals. Our pipelines transport natural gas, gasoline, crude oil, carbon dioxide (CO2) and more. Our terminals store and handle renewable fuels, petroleum products, chemicals, vegetable oils and other products. We are a market leader in each of our businesses – Natural Gas Pipelines, Products Pipelines, CO2, and Terminals.

We have an unparalleled, large footprint of diversified and strategically located assets that are core to North American energy infrastructure and help deliver needed energy products to high-demand markets.

The EHS Project Permitting and Regulatory Compliance Systems teams are departments in the Operations Support Group (OSG) that support regulatory compliance for all Kinder Morgan businesses. The Project Permitting team coordinates, prepares, and submits environmental permit applications; coordinates agency consultations; and advises the Project Managers of any environmental permitting conditions or requirements. The Regulatory Compliance Systems Support (RCSS) team monitors and reviews the regulatory compliance landscape for changes in regulations that may affect Kinder Morgan operations, assess the potential impact of the changing regulations, and manages the electronic database systems used to track regulatory compliance across all businesses.

The intern will experience working in both the Project Permitting and Regulatory Compliance Systems teams. At the end of the BOLT internship, the intern will present a summary of their summer to the management of the department and senior business leaders. This will be an opportunity for the intern to demonstrate what they have learned throughout their internship and provide insight on their experience to senior business leaders and key stakeholders.

The internship opportunities will be focused in the following areas:

• Coordinate permitting activities, including regulatory reviews, environmental field surveys, agency communications, permit application submittals, agency negotiations, mitigation development and implementation.
• Coordinate required permitting activities with project managers, engineers, contractors and other Kinder Morgan team members.
• Provide regulatory and environmental technical guidance on permitting processes and ways to minimize or avoid permitting costs and delays to Kinder Morgan projects.
• Coordinate as necessary with Environmental, Health and Safety Dept.; attend Engineering Dept. Team meetings as well as Regional field meetings; attend project site visits and bid walks as needed; provide backup support for other permitting staff when absent from the office; perform other related duties as assigned.
• Gain experience in environmental laws and regulations, including National Environmental Protection Act, Endangered Species Act, National Historical Preservation Act, Clean Water Act, and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.

• Monitor regulatory agencies and industry standards for proposed and final changes in environmental, health and safety, process safety, pipeline safety, and other requirements,…