Learning begins in the classroom but there's no better place to gain real-world experience than with Stantec. Interns are an integral part of our teams, working to solve some of the world's most complex challenges.
As an intern, you'll work alongside our experienced practitioners and with our clients and communities. This hands-on experience will equip you with practical skills, build your network, and provide opportunities that set you up for success.
At Stantec, we approach every water project we undertake-whether at the local, regional, or international level- thoughtfully, and execute it with excellence across all project phases. We partner with our clients to design fit-for-purpose solutions that address their communities' unique needs throughout the water lifecycle. Our experts lead their fields and guide our work with technical excellence, an innovative spirit, and a vision for growth. We're a place where you can apply your passion and collaborate with top talent on work that's critical to our clients, our communities, and the industry at large.
Your Opportunity
Our Chandler, AZ, office is seeking an Electrical Engineering Intern to join our multi-disciplinary team of water professionals, each committed to delivering sound and strategic consulting services to a range of clients. As an Electrical Engineering Intern, you will work in a supportive team environment and have exposure to the electrical aspect of water infrastructure design projects that include water and wastewater treatment plants and pump stations. You may also be involved in planning, design, and construction of critical infrastructure projects, including new pump stations and rehabilitation and upgrades of existing water and wastewater treatment plants.
Your Key Responsibilities
Collaborate with local and virtual project teams and senior project staff to produce high quality work products for our water and wastewater clients under the supervision of a professional engineer. As such, tasks may include performing engineering calculations, preparing detailed design drawings and specifications, preparing planning and technical engineering reports, and designing electrical infrastructure for pump stations and water and wastewater treatment plants.
The core competencies for this position include:
- Good communication skills: verbal, business writing, electronic communications, and presentations
- Positive attitude with strong relationship building skills
- Flexibility to learn new skills.
Your Capabilities and Credentials
- Currently enrolled in college/university and/or on summer break between semesters.
- Minimum 3.0 GPA.
- Versatility, flexibility, and willingness to work within the team.
- Must be willing and able to take initiative when needed.
- Good MS Office skills including Word and Excel; PowerPoint a plus.
- Experience in AutoCAD, Revit, Civil 3D a plus.
Key Benefits
- An internship opportunity is the singular best way to discover if a career pathway is right for the candidate.
- An opportunity to apply classroom learning to a real-world environment.
- An opportunity to seek out new experiences.
- A chance to make a meaningful contribution to an organization through quality work for our clients in all aspects of project work - planning, design and construction.
- A resume builder - Stantec experience sets a new graduate apart from the "rest".
- Discipline mentorship/shadowing with acting professionals - Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Structural, Process and Project Management.
- Professional coaching to grow your career: resume writing, public speaking, work approaches, communications, and interviewing.
This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned as needed.
Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on each other's talents, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us. At Stantec, we live our corporate values every day.
- Stantec was ranked the 5th most sustainable company in the world and the 1st in North America by Corporate Knights for our 2020 performance.
- In February 2021, Stantec announced a pledge to be carbon neutral for 2022 and achieve operational net-zero by 2030.
- Stantec is the only engineering design firm that has been rated a Climate Leader with an A- score by CDP for the last three years.
- Stantec has been named by Forbes as one of the World's Best Employers and America's Best Employers for Women. Additionally, the American Indian Science and Engineering Society selected Stantec as one of the Top 50 workplaces for Indigenous STEM professionals.
- Stantec has adopted a flexible workplace strategy to leverage the benefits of in person collaboration while allowing staff the flexibility to work from home as required.
Join us and redefine your personal best.
Pay Transparency: In compliance with pay transparency laws, pay ranges are provided for positions in locations where required. Please note, the final agreed upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. At Stantec certain roles are bonus eligible. Actual compensation for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on the agreed number of working hours per week.
Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) have access to medical, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health saving accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase program, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage and paid family leave. Regular full-time and part-time employees will receive ten paid holidays in each calendar year. In addition, employees will be eligible to accrue vacation between 10 and 20 days per year and eligible for paid sick leave (and if more generous, in accordance with state and local law).
Temporary/casual employees have access to 401(k) plans, employee stock purchase program, and paid leave, in accordance with state and local law.
The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements
Primary Location: United States | AZ | Phoenix
Organization: BC-1813 Water-US Southwest
Employee Status: Temporary
Management Level: Internship
Business Justification: New Position
Travel: No
Schedule: Full time
Job Posting: 22/09/2026 08:09:34
Req ID: 1007852
Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment. At Stantec we are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process then please inform a member of our Talent Acquisition team.
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