Power Plant Winter Internship
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Job overview
The Power Plant Winter Internship provides broad exposure to power plant operations and lets engineering students apply classroom learning in a real-world setting. Interns work with functional teams, develop skills, and gain practical experience before college graduation. The role includes operating and monitoring equipment, supporting plant systems and maintenance, and learning how waste-to-energy power plants are operated, managed, and budgeted.
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Full job description
Our Plant Internship program is designed to provide a broad exposure to power plant operations, while providing Power Engineering Technology and Facilities Engineering majors the opportunity to apply theories and practices learned to a real world setting.
Internship Summary
Interacts with and conducts various duties and responsibilities for one or more functional teams to develop new skills and learn new areas of the business. Interns gain practical experience, relevant to their field of study, prior to college graduation.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the essential duties satisfactorily. Other minor duties may be assigned and may vary by location.
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Monitoring and operating plant equipment to maintain safe, efficient, and continuous plant operations.
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Making rounds to check conditions of plant equipment and recording operational data on log sheets.
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Operating Ash Handling System safely and efficiently.
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Testing and treating boiler, cooling and other plant water systems.
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Lifting moderate to heavy material.
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Operating all aspects of the demineralization system, including making required adjustments to system safely and accurately.
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Assisting coordination of plant health, safety and environmental compliance programs, issues, and results.
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Installing, troubleshooting, cleaning, inspecting, and maintaining mechanical equipment throughout the facility in a safe and professional manner.
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Assisting in electrical, calibration, and maintenance and repair procedures.
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Learning how Wheelabrator Technologies Waste-to-Energy Power Plants are operated, managed, and budgeted.
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Perform other duties as assigned.
Education/Experience
Interns must have a High School Diploma or GED (accredited) and be pursuing a Bachelors degree (accredited) in a field of study relevant to the internship.
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Must be currently enrolled in a BS engineering program (Mechanical, Electrical, Nuclear, Environmental, or Facilities) or similar academic program to be considered. Maritime students highly encouraged to apply.
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Previous experience in power generation facilities desired.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,982 open Engineering Intern jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$55–92K/yr103 salary ranges
- Massachusetts median$24–35/hr37 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 48 open Engineering Intern jobs in Massachusetts and 1,982 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Massachusetts
- HNTB7 open
- GE Aerospace4 open
- Medtronic4 open
- Experience
- Engineering Intern postings that state a minimum ask for 0 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 0 to 1 year (32 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 924 of the 1,982 open Engineering Intern jobs (47%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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