Position Overview

Stantec is seeking a motivated Data Analytics and AI Innovation Intern to join our Lexington, KY team for Summer 2026, typically May–August, full-time. This internship offers a unique opportunity to apply cutting-edge AI, data analytics, and innovation skills to real-world engineering workflows in water resources, environmental services, and infrastructure projects. You will work closely with project teams, including experienced engineers and collaborating researchers to evaluate AI tools, develop practical standard operating procedures (SOPs), and contribute directly to technical tool development. This role provides hands-on experience bridging AI innovation with practical engineering applications.

Key Responsibilities

Evaluate and recommend AI-powered tools and technologies tailored to Stantec's engineering workflows, with a focus on improving efficiency and quality in daily tasks.
Develop practical SOPs and implementation guides for AI-assisted engineering activities, such as generating high-quality meeting minutes, presentation summaries, or action items, automating the creation or drafting of professional engineering reports and documents, and implementing automated quality review and consistency checks for reports, calculations, spreadsheets, and deliverables.
Actively contribute to 1–2 ongoing technical tool development efforts, with hands-on coding and problem-solving, utilizing a combination of coding, modeling, and analytical skills.
Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to test, document, and refine AI-driven solutions.
Participate in team meetings, project reviews, and professional development sessions as part of Stantec’s internship program.

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 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.

Data Analytics & AI Innovation Intern - Water

Data Analytics & AI Innovation Intern - Water

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