Engineering Intern - Water (Summer 2026)

Stantec • Pasadena, CA

7d • $23 - $35

About The Position

Thank you for your interest in joining our team! We now have a new recruiting and onboarding platform for our Canada and United States roles. Found a role that excites you? Click the 'apply' button and follow the instructions to locate your existing profile or create a new one. Returning applicants, if you applied before June 13, 2025, your profile may have been automatically moved to our new platform. If so, your email address will be active. If not, please create a new profile to apply. If you have questions, please email [email protected]. 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. Stantec is a place where you can apply your passions and collaborate with top talent on water infrastructure work that is impactful to our clients, our communities, and the industry at large. We see water in California a bit differently here—as a single, holistic system rather than disconnected networks split by jurisdictional and socio-economic boundaries. Throughout the life cycle of capture, treatment, use, reuse, and discharge, our team optimizes every facet of a water system to help communities tap into water's full potential. Whether a project calls for planners, designers, construction managers, or facility operators, we have the right experts to provide creative, yet practical, water solutions that address our communities' unique water needs, now and into the future. The Pasadena, California office of Stantec is seeking a part-time Engineering Intern to join our multi-disciplinary team of integrated water professionals, each committed to delivering sound and strategic consulting services to a range of local, regional, state, and federal clients.

Requirements

• Proficient with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to work in diverse team environments, interacting with staff, clients, and stakeholders
• Willingness to perform field work as needed
• Entering into (within 4 months) or in progress toward earning a Bachelor's degree (minimum) or Master's degree in civil/environmental engineering, or related field
• Specific coursework or exposure to one or more of the following: CAD Modeling Engineering analyses and design Hydraulics Water/wastewater treatment processes
• Typical office environment working with computers and working at a desk for long periods of time.
• Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather.

Responsibilities

• Gain experience in with various areas including: Water-related infrastructure.
• Water and wastewater treatment plants.
• Participate in multi-disciplinary teams on water projects throughout California and the western U.S.
• Conduct technical evaluations, supporting planning and design of water supply, water treatment, and wastewater projects.
• Coordinate with project managers, project engineers and staff, clients, regulatory agencies, and contractors.
• Assisting technical staff with various project tasks, including researching, compiling, and evaluating project data, preparing reports, performing calculations for design projects, along with some exposure to CAD, GIS, and design.
• Assisting with field work, including water quality sampling.
• Perform project administration including preparation of reports, gathering of information, drafting proposals and correspondence, and completing progress reports.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Intern
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees