Intern, Technical Graduate Year-Round - Environmental Restoration & Stewardship, Remote
Las Cruces, Dona Ana County, New Mexico, 88001, USA
Listed on 2026-10-20
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Science
Environmental Compliance & Protection
Job
Location:
Albuquerque, NM
Full/Part Time:
Part-Time
Regular/Temporary:
Temporary
We are seeking a Year Round - Technical Graduate Intern to join our dynamic team!
On any given day, you may be called on to:
- Support the preservation of a complex, multi-decade data management system critical to environmental efforts,
- Apply systems engineering methods that will analyze data flows, system architecture, system requirements, and data transformations to improve understanding and management of the system,
- Implement typical systems engineering tasks that may include requirements analysis and traceability, development of system models and diagrams, verification and validation planning, risk assessment, and process improvement recommendations to enhance data integrity and system reliability, and
- Work closely with experienced staff, contribute to preserving vital environmental data, and support Sandia's mission of sustainable environmental stewardship and regulatory compliance through rigorous systems thinking approaches.
The selected applicant can be a remote worker located in any U.S. State or District of Columbia. Regular or periodic travel to your assigned work location may be required.
Salary RangeAt Sandia, we value the important work done by our interns and its contribution to National Security. Because of this, our interns earn competitive pay rates. Our pay structure is based on earned credit hours, classification, and degree level. Your pay rate will be determined during the hire process and included in your offer package. You can view the Intern Pay Rate chart here.
QualificationsWe Require
You bring the confidence and skills to be eligible for the job by meeting these minimum requirements:
- Earned bachelor's degree
- Currently attending and enrolled full time in a related accredited graduate program
- Minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0/4.0
- Ability to work up to 30 hours per week during the academic year, and up to 40 hours per week during the summer
- U.S. citizens, legal permanent residents, asylees or refugees in the U.S.
- Currently enrolled in a graduate program in Environmental Science, Earth Sciences, Natural Sciences, Geosciences, Environmental Systems, Chemistry or a related field.
- Familiarity with environmental data management, environmental monitoring, and use of new and legacy data sets for environmental projects.
- Basic proficiency in SQL, or equivalent, and experience querying relational databases.
- Experience applying systems engineering methods such as requirements analysis and modeling.
- Experience writing procedures.
- Experience with sample management.
- Knowledge of data quality control and metadata processes and best practices.
This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of three (3) calendar days, including the 'posting date'. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.
About Our TeamThis organization focuses on identification of areas of environmental concern at Sandia's Albuquerque site, areas that may include landfills, groundwater contamination, or other concerns that stem from operations at Sandia since its inception. The organization consists of two teams, the Environmental Restoration team that strives to remediate or otherwise control contamination and the Long-Term Stewardship team that monitors the effectiveness of Sandia's remediation and contamination control approaches.
This organization represents Sandia to the New Mexico Environment Department on matters pertaining to remediation and control of contamination.
Sandia National Laboratories is the nation's premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, with teams of specialists…
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