Process Mechanical Engineering Intern - Water (Summer 2026)

Stantec

Posted 3 days ago

Internship

Reno, Nevada

In Person

Smart Summary

The intern will support local design staff with various tasks including design using AutoCAD and Revit, data collection, and preparing technical documents. They will also assist in client interactions and field investigations.

We are seeking a Process Mechanical Engineering Intern to support our local design staff with AutoCAD, Revit, and BIM design. The ideal candidate will possess good communication skills, a positive attitude, and flexibility to learn new skills. This internship offers an opportunity to apply classroom learning to a real-world environment and make meaningful contributions to project work.

Must Have Skills for ATS

AutoCAD

Revit

Building Information Management

Excel

Hydraulic Modeling Software

Technical Writing

Data Collection

Data Organization

Communication

Teamwork

Flexibility

Initiative

MS Office

Civil 3D

Presentation Skills

Job Description

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.

 At Stantec, we approach every water project we undertake—whether at the local, regional, or international level— thoughtfully, and execute it with excellence across all project phases. We partner with our clients to design fit-for-purpose solutions that address their communities’ unique needs throughout the water lifecycle. Our experts lead their fields and guide our work with technical excellence, an innovative spirit, and a vision for growth. We’re a place where you can apply your passion and collaborate with top talent on work that’s critical to our clients, our communities, and the industry at large. 

Your Opportunity

We are seeking an intern to reside in our Las Vegas, Nevada office. This role will support our local design staff with AutoCAD, Revit and Building information Management (BIM) design; collecting and organizing data, preparing calculations, preparing charts and graphs, modeling using Excel or hydraulic modeling software, preparing drawings, backcheck drawing/technical memoranda corrections, writing portions of technical memoranda, researching technical information, proposal and resume writing, client interactions, presentations, note taking, field investigations, coordinating production of reports, and support of design documents (plans and specifications). 

Reporting 

The Intern will report to the Senior Principal Project Manager in the US Water Business. The Intern will also have a reporting relationship with the Intern Coordinators for day-to-day activities and career development and Project and Task Manager(s) when supporting project work.

Your Key Responsibilities 

The Intern must have good attention to detail. They need to possess a willingness to assist full time staff with various tasks. The core competencies for this position include: 

  • Good communication skills: verbal, business writing, electronic communications, and presentations 
  • Positive attitude with strong relationship building skills 
  • Flexibility to learn new skills. 

Key Benefits

An internship opportunity is the singular best way to discover if a career pathway is right for the candidate. 

  • An opportunity to apply classroom learning to a real-world environment. 
  • An opportunity to seek out new experiences. 
  • A chance to make a meaningful contribution to an organization through quality work for our clients in all aspects of project work – planning, design and construction. 
  • A resume builder – Stantec experience sets a new graduate apart from the “rest”. 
  • Discipline mentorship/shadowing with acting professionals – Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Structural, Process and Project Management. 
  • Professional coaching to grow your career: resume writing, public speaking, work approaches, communications, and interviewing. 

Pay Transparency: In compliance with pay transparency laws, pay ranges are provided for positions in locations where required. Please note, the final agreed upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. At Stantec certain roles are bonus eligible. Actual compensation for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on the agreed number of working hours per week.
Benefits Summary: 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.
The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements

Stantec

Stantec provides professional design and consulting services in planning, engineering, architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, surveying, and project management. At Stantec, we offer integrated service delivery. We are one of the few industry leaders that can offer professional services throughout the entire infrastructure and facility life cycle: plan, design, build, monitor, assess, restore, and decommission. Continually striving to balance economic, environmental, and social responsibilities, we are recognized as a world-class leader and innovator in the delivery of sustainable solutions. Stantec supports the delivery of a continuous learning program focused on the principles of sustainable design, for the benefit of personnel, clients, and our community, following through on our goal to make our world a better place. A commitment to continuous learning and the understanding of sustainable design practices is key to Stantec's promise of environmental, social and economic sustainability. Stantec is registered with, and carries out projects funded by all the major International Funding Institutions. Projects are also carried out for private sector clients including utility and large multi-national companies. In 1954, Dr. Don Stanley, an environmental engineer, founded Stanley Associates Engineering Ltd. in Western Canada. Sixty years later, Stantec Consulting Ltd. has grown to encompass over 200 offices in North America and worldwide. The Stantec team of over 15,000 employees has completed more than 60,000 projects for over 6,000 clients in over 100 countries around the world. Our staff have successfully completed projects on six continents from Australia to Zambia for public and private sector clients. Stantec began working internationally in 1967 on a sewerage system in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and has continued to do so for last 45 years. Stantec Consulting International Ltd. (SCIL) provides the specialized professional consulting services of Stantec to international funding agencies and clients in the government, institutional, industrial and commercial sectors. Corporate headquarters are located in the Stantec Centre in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Additional international offices are located in Barbados; Puerto Rico; Qatar; the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates; the United Kingdom; and India. Project offices are located around the world specific to on-going projects.

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