Transmission/Interconnection Intern

Imagine a future where The Ørsted US Internship Program is designed to help you put your energy into what matters. We hire from multiple disciplines for internships in various areas across our organization, seeking talented, curious, and passionate candidates from across the United States. We welcome diverse perspectives and backgrounds to join us in shaping a sustainable future.

Join us in this role where you’ll experience a 10-week immersive summer program designed to strengthen your development through tailored programming focused on three key aspects: exposure to our core business, vision-centred and collaborative experiential learning, and professional development.

Welcome to Onshore Project Execution
You’ll be part of Onshore Transmission team where you, together with your colleagues, will support Onshore development projects through their applicable interconnection processes. You will collaborate with experienced engineers on projects primarily situated within the eastern interconnect. Your responsibilities will include supporting projects in various stages, from greenfield developments to under-construction and completed assets. You will acquire essential skills and be tasked with performing critical analysis and tasks. Our team values frequent communication, project collaboration, and ensuring stakeholders are well-informed for decision-making.

You’ll play an important role in:

• supporting greenfield development of prospective projects
• supporting developed projects by completing tasks that are required for their interconnection process
• support work by consultants by creating scopes of work, researching and providing documentation, and reviewing and summarizing results
• helping other groups (Development, Engineering, M&A, Finance, etc.) that may need interconnection information for a project
• researching topics that may affect different interconnection processes throughout a focused region

To succeed in the role, you:

• should have a high-level understanding of the bulk electric transmission system, its components, and how generation gets to load
• should have a high-level understanding of how different scenarios that occur on the transmission system (loss/addition of generation, loss/addition of a transmission lines, etc.) impact the reliability of the transmission system
• may have a high-level understanding of generation interconnection processes and how the idea of a new renewable asset obtains a generation interconnection agreement
• may have experience with power flow software such as PSSE, PowerGEM’s TARA, or PowerWorld
• are a collaborator who looks forward to taking on new opportunities and challenges with a sense of urgency and enthusiasm

Maybe you’ve read the above and can see you have some transferable skills, even though they don’t quite match all the points. If you think you can bring something to the team, we still encourage you to apply.

Shape the future with us
Send your application to us as soon as possible. We’ll be conducting interviews on a continuous basis and reserve the right to take down the advert when we’ve found the right candidate.

As an applicant or employee, you may request reasonable work and position accommodation or adjustments via accommodation@orsted.com.

Please note that for your application to be taken into consideration, you must submit your application via our online career pages and answer the screening questions relevant for your country. We don't take applications or inquiries from external recruiters or agencies into account for this position.