Integrated Water Management Intern - Water (Summer 2026)

Stantec • Pasadena, CA

6d • Onsite

About The Position

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’s Water sector, which brings together many of the world’s top engineers, planners, scientists, and others, sees water a bit differently—as a single holistic system rather than as unconnected networks divided by jurisdictional boundaries. We use this perspective to help communities tap into water’s potential. Throughout the life cycle of capture, use, reuse, discharge, and delivery, our team optimizes every facet of a water system. Whether a project calls for planners, managers, economists, financial analysts, designers, construction managers, or facility operators, we have the right experts to provide creative, yet practical, water solutions. Your Opportunity Stantec’s Pasadena, California, office is seeking a full-time Integrated Water Management Intern to join our multi-disciplinary team of water resources professionals, each committed to delivering sound and strategic consulting services to a range of local, regional, state, and federal clients. The selected intern will support a variety of integrated water resources planning analysis and communication efforts in California, directly impacting safe drinking water, stormwater management, green infrastructure, financial and environmental sustainability, and environmental injustices. If working on challenging projects and working on teams aimed at delivering solutions to some of California’s most complex water challenges appeals to you, join us.

Requirements

• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills for working on multi-disciplinary teams of project managers, project engineers and staff, clients, regulatory agencies, and subcontractors.
• In progress toward a Master’s degree (minimum) in environmental management or analysis, sustainability or resilience studies, public policy or planning (environmental or natural resources focus), or environmental economics, or similar; with a minimum of 1 year of related undergraduate coursework or work experience.
• Specific coursework or exposure to one or more of the following: Quantitative and/or qualitative environmental analysis Stakeholder engagement, communications, and/or international relations, public policy related to sustainability, natural resources, or climate adaptation. Economic and political context of water provision in California.

Responsibilities

• Gain and apply experience in California water resources including provision of safe drinking water, integrated water management, applicable laws/policies/regulations, and water governance and community engagement.
• Conduct research to support water supply, sanitation, flood, or stormwater management efforts at local and watershed scales.
• Contribute to assessments in support of struggling and failing drinking water systems across California through the Safe and Affordable Funding for Equity and Resilience (SAFER) program.
• Support in-person and hybrid meeting facilitation and engagement at committee meetings, community meetings, and working groups.
• Perform project administration tasks including preparing reports and memos, gathering information, design, writing proposals, drafting correspondence, and completing progress reports.
• Work in-person from the Pasadena office at least two consecutive days per week.
• Travel within California as needed for project work, not to exceed 10%.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Intern