Summer 2024 Intern Program: Data Analytics & IT Roles (Waltham, MA)
Find what makes you Superpowered. Become a Gridtern.
As we help clear the path to a greener future, we need to ensure our people continue to power our progress. Our Gridtern Program provides current college students the ability to gain practical experience within the energy industry. Your summer will start with us on June 3rd 2024 and will be filled with meaningful work experiences, professional development, networking, opportunities to get involved in your community and most importantly, have fun! Come join us to find what makes you superpowered!
Intern responsibilities will vary based upon your area of interest and department placement. Applying to this opportunity confirms your interest in being considered for one or more of the below departments for summer 2024:
Advance Data Analytics (Waltham, MA)
The Advanced Data Analytics team provides in-house data science, ML/AI, and advanced analytics support to National Grid in support of our company’s mission to provide clean, fair, and affordable energy to our customers. The team works on a wide variety of projects, across all domains of ML and all lines of business. Recent projects have included: identifying malfunctioning gas meters using anomaly detection; helping the energy efficiency team increase battery storage adoption using customer segmentation; and reducing employee travel time by optimizing work site assignments. For the summer, you will work on various projects based on our team’s needs. Day to day tasks include exploratory Data Analysis (EDA), coding, data science, participation in team meetings, and overseeing stakeholder communications.
Asset Data & Systems – Systems & Process Development (Waltham, MA)
The Asset Data & Systems – Systems & Process Development team provides subject matter expert-level business support for our various electrical data and IT systems. The team uses their knowledge to drive process change, increase data accuracy & data availability to our stakeholders by developing data pipelines and deploying ESRI-based (GIS) technologies. For the summer, you will be exposed to different types of work through a weekly rotation program. Each week, you will have opportunities ranging from an introduction to the business, external stakeholders and current initiatives, shadowing team members to learn more about the different work being done across this team, data process review and modification, and other projects based on interest.
Electric Project Estimating NE (Waltham, MA)
The Electric Project Estimating NE Team estimates complex and non-complex overhead and underground transmission line, overhead and underground distribution line, substation, distributor generation, customer load, battery energy storage projects for our Massachusetts electric business. As a Gridtern, you will be assisting our lead data analyst with various analytical tasks that support the estimating department. Additional opportunities include analyzing data to identify patterns, trends, insights, and solutions; working in excel; working in SQL & Power BI DAX; assisting with data mining and estimating dashboards; creating reports; potentially helping with estimated vs. actual variance analysis.
Evaluation Measurement and Verification (Waltham, MA)
The Evaluation, Measurement & Verification (EM&V) team supports National Grid’s award-winning energy efficiency programs and clean energy technologies by quantifying and tracking the programs’ energy savings and other impacts. The team also performs evaluation studies to aid in program design and performance improvements. EM&V is responsible for ensuring that energy and demand savings are calculated correctly and reflect the latest information and analysis based on EM&V studies. For the summer, you will work with team members to detail requirements, recommendations, work with Information Services (IS) to provide input on system capabilities and structure, work with IS to translate engineering formulas into fields and code, reviewing prototypes, test improvements, and collaborate with other stakeholders as needed.
Gas Pipeline Safety and Compliance (Waltham, MA)
The Compliance Performance Oversight team is under Gas Pipeline Safety and Compliance department. This team is the second line insurance to make sure all Gas pipeline’s work so this team stays in compliance with regulatory requirements. This team also conducts control testing, supporting the first line business to follow the regulators’ requirements and help to remediate any noncompliance or control weakness findings. For the summer, you will work closely with team members to ensure best practice program, portfolio and project governance and controls are set in place and maintained. You will also work with and support project owners, to drive and challenge delivery to ensure that their projects are delivered to time, cost and quality and that business benefit realization is managed. You will maintain excel and SharePoint list database for projects and update procedures’ information in the database.
Grid Modernization NE (Waltham, MA)
The Grid Modernization NE team is working to improve our company’s current electric network and ready the grid for future challenges represented by distributed generation and electrification. As a Gridtern within this team, you will support the delivery of a diverse portfolio of projects that will help modernize National Grid’s electric system in New England, creating a network that can accommodate a rising number of distributed energy resources with increased levels of reliability and control. Working within the Grid Modernization Program Management Office (PMO), you will be able to support project planning, scheduling, cost estimating, benefit tracking, risk management, quality review and change management, while working collaboratively with Grid Modernization engineers and project managers to establish project objectives.
IT Infrastructure and Operations (Waltham, MA)
The IT Infrastructure and Operations Team conducts Business and Regulatory planning for data networks. This includes rate case submissions, sanction papers submissions, financial management for the Network Configuration and Infrastructure Services group, aligning business objectives with network requirements, operational performance reporting and monitoring, and process design and continuous improvement. For the summer, you will report creation from multiple data sources to show operational performance, financial performance, and other performance metrics to be defined. You will also be able to write technical plans for the data network group translated from business drivers, plans, and requirements. Additional tasks of this role include process design, documentation, and measurement.
MA Gas Resource Planning (Waltham, MA)
The Gas Resource Planning team creates a yearly work plan for all non-complex work and then reports on and facilitates completion of that work throughout the year. This team also drives the capital portfolio, ensuring it is calibrated each month throughout the fiscal year. The team does a lot of reporting across the organization and responds to requests from the stakeholders in the Company and outside entities, like the Department of Public Utilities (DPU). For the summer, you will be able to help support our Analytics team in developing and maintaining reports, with opportunities to create new or improve on current reports and help create or enhance processes.
NE SHA – Policy & Programs (Waltham, MA)
The New England SHA- Policy & Programs team maintains their own database of safety data, dashboards, and insights of our stakeholders. For the summer, you will have the chance to support this process through similar avenues. This team requires a strong ability to learn software, and someone with an affinity for data visualization and data management. Your work would involve data visualization, manipulation, dashboard creation, statistical analysis and overall database management.
Operational Technology (OT) Cybersecurity (Waltham, MA)
The OT Cybersecurity Team designs and deploys cybersecurity solutions and controls to Operational Technology (OT) areas such as transmission substations and liquified natural gas (LNG) facilities. This work includes items such as access control, network architecture, intrusion detection, authentication, encryption, data loss prevention and packet analysis. The OT IDS project is deploying dozens of Security Point of Presence cabinets to substations across New York and New England. For the summer, you will work on configuring firewalls, switches, IDS software and Privilege Access Workstations while learning how the electric grid is automated and the risks this presents to the business.
SHA Risk and Assurance (Waltham, MA)
The Risk and Assurance team provides assurance that the principal controls that govern critical operations within our business are effective and that such controls mitigate or eliminate the risk associated with them. For the summer you will assist the team with controls testing support and reviewing past testing data to identify trends and lessons learned.
US Electric IT (Waltham, MA)
The US Electric IT team delivers new technology to enable our US Electric business to effectively digitalize their operations, re-imagine their processes and deliver customer and operational efficiency. For the summer, you will work to support the product delivery of several products within the US Electric IT portfolio. This will involve coordinating and managing resource to deliver effectively as well as gathering, capturing, and presenting relevant information to stakeholders. You will also conduct research to deliver product and portfolio insights.
What You’ll Need
- Availability to start on program start date, June 3, 2024 and work full-time (40 hours a week) throughout your duration of the summer
- Registered in school as a full-time student and continuing education full-time for Fall 2024 Semester
- Pursuing a Bachelor’s, or Master’s degree
- Majoring in Business, Accounting, Data Analytics, Data Science, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field
- Accumulated 18 or more credits and be 18 years of age
- Work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States
- Located within a commutable distance to the identified work location for the summer
- Some Gridtern positions will require a valid US Driver’s license. This qualification will be included in the department specific Gridtern role(s) descriptions at point of interview
About Us
We keep people connected and society moving. But it’s so much more than that. We’re dreamers, big-thinkers, innovators, and builders.
We’re shaping the current, to change the future. We know that a clean, fair, and affordable energy future is in our hands. So, we explore with energy, with innovation and technology powering our progress, and helping us to find a better way to deliver energy to all.
National Grid supplies us with the environment to make it happen – inspiring us, giving us time to recharge and providing a safety net on tougher days.
But it’s our people that provide our true superpower. They drive and sustain our growth, their unique differences only making us stronger.
So join us, and power the future of energy. Find what makes you Superpowered.
More Information
Salary Range
$18.00 – $25.00 an hour (Undergraduate Student)
$26.00 – $32.00 an hour (Graduate Student)
Candidates will be assessed and provided offers based on major, degree type, and class year. Our Gridtern Program does not offer relocation, housing assistance, or public transportation reimbursement for Gridterns; however, we can provide a list of resources to utilize in making your arrangements.
Applications close on October 15th 2023.
National Grid is an equal opportunity employer that values a broad diversity of talent, knowledge, experience, and expertise. We foster a culture of inclusion that drives employee engagement to deliver superior performance to the communities we serve. National Grid is proud to be an affirmative action employer. We encourage minorities, women, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans to join the National Grid team.