Fire Protection Undergraduate Student ST

What You Will Do

This internship provides mentoring, hands-on technical experience, and professional development opportunities through a formalized work plan complementing the student's engineering education. The fire protection office is seeking students to support a variety of projects around Los Alamos National Laboratory including:

• Support review of fire protection system designs and calculations, including sprinkler, fire pump, fire alarm, and special hazard systems.
• Analyze life safety requirements for buildings, including building code compliance, occupancy determination, occupant load calculations, and components of the means of egress.
• Perform on-site fire protection system evaluations and participate in final system testing.
• Inspect buildings for hazard assessment and compliance.
• Perform building and fire code analyses and interpretations. Prepare fire hazards analysis and engineering evaluation documents.
• Interface with facility project personnel and coordinate project designs with other engineering disciplines.
• Perform analyses of existing fire protection systems to determine capabilities, shortcomings, and solutions to rectify deficiencies.

Minimum

Job Requirements:

• Currently enrolled in an accredited bachelor's degree program in any engineering discipline. Engineering degree in greatest demand include Mechanical, Electrical, Nuclear, and Fire Protection Engineering.
• Enrolled in and successfully complete a minimum of 12 undergraduate credit hours per semester (or equivalent of full-time enrollment).
• Have and maintain a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 on 4.0 scale.
  Note: Students must provide the program coordinator with current, official transcripts annually to remain eligible. See the Annual Transcript & Salary Review Process section for additional information.
• Pass a new employment drug test:
  The Laboratory requires successful applicants to complete a new employment drug test and maintains a substance abuse policy that includes random drug testing.
• Basic knowledge of engineering concepts, principles, practices, and procedures, as demonstrated by experience researching, designing, testing, analyzing, verifying, and validating engineering solutions.
• Basic knowledge along with any class project experience with analysis or testing in one or more of the following STEM areas:
  Biology, Chemistry, Coding, Manufacturing, Physics, Nuclear, Materials, Math, Data acquisition and analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to express ideas clearly in oral and written communications.

Desired

Qualifications:

• Successful experience working in a team environment.
• Demonstrated excellent attention to detail.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate well (verbal and written) in a professional setting.
• Previous experience in building design, construction, facilities, fire protection, or the fire service.
• Enrolled in a fire protection engineering or engineering technology graduate degree program.

Position requires a to be enrolled in an undergraduate program in STEM from an accredited institution with a cumulative GPA of at least 3.0

The work location for this position is onsite and located in Los Alamos, NM. All work locations are at the discretion of management.

Due to federal restrictions contained in the current National Defense Authorization Act, citizens of the People's Republic of China-including the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau-as well as citizens of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), and the Russian Federation, who are not Lawful Permanent Residents ("green card" holders) are prohibited from accessing facilities that support the mission, functions, and operations of national security laboratories and nuclear weapons production facilities, which includes Los Alamos National Laboratory.

To apply, please submit the following documents: