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People are the heart of our business. As an American Water employee, you will be offered a competitive salary and health benefits package, along with opportunities to develop, grow, and evolve your career. Our benefits packages focus on key areas such as health & wellness, emotional & well-being, and savings for current & future goals.

We are Beautifully Different . We strongly believe having diversity across our company makes us more successful and helps us provide essential services to our customers. We are stronger because we embrace different ideas, viewpoints, experiences, and backgrounds. American Water is the best choice for your next role! Click here for more information on our inclusion, diversity, and equity journey.

About American Water
American Water (NYSE: AWK) is the largest regulated water and wastewater utility company in the United States. With a history dating back to 1886, We Keep Life Flowing® by providing safe, clean, reliable and affordable drinking water and wastewater services to more than 14 million people across 14 regulated jurisdictions and 18 military installations. American Water's 6,500 talented professionals leverage their significant expertise and the company's national size and scale to achieve excellent outcomes for the benefit of customers, employees, investors and other stakeholders.

As one of the fastest growing utilities in the U.S., American Water expects to invest $30 to $34 billion in infrastructure repairs and replacement, system resiliency and regulated acquisitions over the next 10 years. The company has a long-standing history of executing its core operations, aligned with sustainable best practices, through its commitments to safety, affordability, customer service, protecting the environment, an inclusive workforce and strengthening communities.

American Water has been recognized on the 2023 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Indexfor the fifth consecutive year, ranked 18th on Barron's 100 Most Sustainable U.S. Companies 2023 List, earned the U.S. Department of Homeland Security SAFETY Act designation and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's WaterSense® Excellence Award, among additional state, local and national recognitions.

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Primary Role

• Internship is designed to introduce and build essential, hands-on skills that differ from those attained in the academic arena and help to enhance the transition from student to professional in a utility-based environment.


• Through job shadowing and completing project milestones, the candidate will gain exposure to project coordination, water pipeline and treatment inspection, relevant computer-assisted engineering software, cost estimating, GIS mapping, plan review, data collection, and related tasks.


• Candidates will work alongside staff engineers, project managers, inspectors, and operations personnel. The work environment will be a combination of in-office and field activities. Some activities will be performed outdoors with occasional exposure to adverse environmental conditions which require adherence to safe work practices, such as temperature/weather variations, odors, noise, wetness, traffic hazards, and/or dust.

Knowledge/Skills

• Candidate must possess excellent writing, communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills.


• Having completed a previous internship related to the candidate's field of study is preferable.


• Must be proficient in all computer software typically used (e.g., Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.).

Experience/Education

• Candidate must be in pursuit of a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from an accredited program or related engineering technology program.


• Candidates are preferred to have completed a minimum of 2 years of study in their program.

Competencies

Champions safety

Collaborates

Cultivates innovation

Customer obsessed

Drives Results

Nimble learning

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American Water is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and prohibits employment discrimination for employees and applicants based on his or her age, race, color, pregnancy, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, marital status, citizenship, or because they are an individual with a disability, protected veteran or other status protected by federal, state, and local laws.