Student Intern, Engineering, Substation Desgin, Summer
Listed on 2026-09-07
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Engineering
Electrical Engineering, Engineering Design & Technologists
Student Intern, Engineering, Substation Design, Summer 2027
Date:
Sep 4, 2026
Location:
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Company:
Entergy
Entergy's Project Delivery Engineering Department is responsible for the planning, designing, constructing, maintaining and operating over 16,000 miles of transmission lines and over 2,700 substations across the four-state territory.
Job Duties/Responsibilities:
- Working in a team environment to assist engineers in day-to-day activities, including but not limited to:
- Performing design based on project scoping and site visits
- Utilizing design software to model surveyed field configurations
- Preparing operational one-line drawings
- Validating estimating prices and equipment units, ensuring material is properly ordered and staged for upcoming projects
- Managing projects that are in construction
- Completion of as-built documentation
- Participate in weekly planning coordination calls
- Work on special projects to assist in improving grid reliability
- Responding to equipment failures
- Transmission substation and line database management
- Perform various substation design related analyses including substation ground grid analysis, lightning protection analysis, and bus fault analysis.
- Support of business analytic processes through data mining and reporting, as well as performing a wide variety of detailed engineering analysis in transmission-related areas such as planning, economic analysis, maintenance, design, project management and construction, and operations
- Supports activities to comply with applicable industry standards (i.e. NERC, SERC) and other utility regulations, as required
Travel may be required for the position.
Minimum
Education Requirements:
- Candidates must be actively enrolled and pursuing a bachelors, masters or doctorate degree in a Electrical, Mechanical, and/or Civil Engineering for the duration of the internship.
- Preferred:
Candidates who will be classified as a rising junior, or senior at the time of hire. - Must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.8 (on a 4.0 scale), verified through an official transcript from the previous semester.
Minimum Experience
Required:
- Computer skills–- familiar with various databases, including Windows and Microsoft environments
- Must have good communication and Customer Service skills.
Primary
Location:
Louisiana-New Orleans Louisiana :
New Orleans
Job Function :
Students / Early Careers
FLSA Status :
Nonexempt
Relocation Option:
Level III
Union description/code : NON BARGAINING UNIT
Number of Openings : 1
Req
An Equal Opportunity Employer, Minority/Female/Disability/Vets.
EEO Statement:
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