Intern, Utility Performance Programming

What You Can Expect

As our Utility Performance Programming Intern at the University of Iowa campus, you'll leverage real-time and historical data to improve efficiency and reduce costs for campus utilities (steam, electricity, chilled water, water, and sewer). Using PI System software, you'll connect with control systems at campus facilities and real-time metering across roughly 90 buildings, assisting in designing and deploying custom applications integrated with databases, web APIs, and Office 365. You'll collaborate daily with our Utilities Performance Manager, Senior Software Developer, and Energy Analyst, following software engineering best practices. This internship requires 10-15 hours per week during semesters (additional hours during breaks), with flexible scheduling between 7:00 am and 5:00 pm at the Energy Control Center, continuing through December 31, 2025.

What You'll Bring

• Must be an enrolled student at the University of Iowa
• Completed coursework in data structures, object-oriented programming, software development, or related programming courses is required
• Experience in a statically typed programming language such as C#, Java, C++
• Willingness and ability to learn PI AF System, PI System Explorer software and the PI Excel Datalink and Builder Add-ins
• This internship provides an excellent learning opportunity for students exploring career paths in Computer Science, Informatics, or related programs or pathways

Additional Details

Compensation

Salary Range: $21.50 - $32.00 USD hourly

This represents the average expected pay range for a qualified candidate.

ENGIE complies with all federal, state, and local minimum wage laws. Actual salary offered may vary depending on geography, experience, education, internal pay alignment, or other bona fide factors.

Your Talent Acquisition Partner can share more specific information regarding the benefits or the salary for the position based on the work location

Why ENGIE?

ENGIE North America isn't just participating in the Zero-Carbon Transition, we're leading it! Join us as we develop energy that is renewable, efficient, and accessible to everyone.

In 2020 The University of Iowa (UI) entered a 50-year, trailblazing partnership with the University of Iowa Energy Collaborative (UIEC), a joint venture between ENGIE, Meridiam, and Hannon Armstrong, to operate, maintain and enhance the university's Utility System. As the founding member of this joint venture, ENGIE designs, builds, operates, and maintains the energy infrastructure delivering safe, reliable, cost-effective, and sustainable energy solutions in producing and distributing steam, electricity, chilled water, and domestic water to the main campus in Iowa City, Iowa and a nearby satellite campus.

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