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Engineering Co-op/Internship Opportunities

Location:             Various Locations in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey

Engineering students looking for an extraordinary hands-on co-op or intern experience can find one at FirstEnergy.  As a participant in this program, you’ll serve as an integral part of our team working in any one of the following possible settings:  a nuclear power plant, a coal-fired power plant, in regional operations or in a corporate environment.

Engineering Majors:  Chemical/Environmental  *  Civil/Structural  *  Computer Science  *  Electrical  *  Mechanical  *  Nuclear (where available)             

 Job Description:

As a chemical engineering student, you could be a part of the power plant’s vital operations by working in the water quality and environmental areas and assisting with scheduled chemical cleaning projects and air and water quality testing. 

As a civil/structural engineering student, you may put your classroom lectures into practice when you help the plant’s technical staff design state-of-the-art structural steel systems and replace piping systems.

As a computer science engineering student, you may have the opportunity to work with various technical personnel in the design and analysis of substation and pole/tower structures, foundations and electrical conductors. 

As an electrical engineering student, you may help develop and maintain computer software and hardware for power plant data acquisition systems, real-time simulation systems, CADD systems and local area networks.  Or, you may assist engineers by troubleshooting plant equipment or work on the “wires” side of our business, which includes substations and distribution and transmission lines. 

As a mechanical engineering student, you will learn about the equipment that keeps a generating plant operating, and how the condition of the equipment affects the unit’s p3rformance and reliability.

As a nuclear engineering student, you will apply practical operational reactor physics by modeling and/or benchmarking reactivity maneuvers.  You’ll gain hands-on experience by inspecting nuclear fuel and participating in fuel defect localization testing.

 Requirements:

ü      Minimum GPA of 2.5.

ü      Eligible to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.

ü      Current engineering student.

  Pay Rate:  Hourly rate plus housing allowance (if applicable)

 Please apply on-line at www.firstenergycorp.com/employment. 

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