Intern, Engineering

About the Role

Southern Star is seeking highly motivated students or recent graduates to join our team as summer interns. The Engineering Intern will be exposed to a variety of project-based assignments and receive mentorship, detailed orientation and training, and valuable work assignments. This internship provides an introduction to the natural gas industry by teaching engineering best practices and exposing interns to various design disciplines, focusing on the project life cycle from development through design and execution.

• This is a 12-week, competitively paid summer internship.
• Interns work 40 hours per week with paid company holidays.
• A taxable housing stipend may be provided if the candidate's permanent home address and current college address are determined to be greater than a reasonable driving distance from the assigned work location.
• Participants are eligible for full-time employment upon successful completion of the program.

Key Responsibilities

• Project scoping and estimating efforts.
• Equipment sizing.
• Pipeline and facility design.
• Material requisition.
• Survey requests.
• Construction workspace and easement exhibit determination.
• Collaboration with project management and cost controls.
• Internal process improvement projects.
• Support and shadow experienced engineers and other operations professionals.

Learning Focus Areas

• Design Project Scoping: Mechanical engineering design support, project scopes and estimates, project site layouts, and justification of projects.
• Compression Design: Compressor station design, equipment, and operations.
• Principles of both reciprocating and centrifugal natural gas compressors.
• Equipment including yard valves, ESD valves, coolers, containments, scrubbers, filter coalescers, and mechanical separators.
• Station auxiliary systems such as air, water, and lubrication systems.
• Co-located dehydration and storage facilities.
• Pipeline Design: Basic pipeline design including DOT regulations.
• Appropriate diameter, wall thickness, and grade requirements for operating pressures in different class locations.
• Approval processes for material installation including welding requirements, pressure testing, and post-installation non-destructive testing practices.
• Identification and specification of construction workspace, right-of-way, and easements.
• High-level design specifics, including mainline valve assemblies, launchers and receivers, conventional boring, and Horizontal Direction Drilling for creek, river, and road crossings.
• Measurement & Regulation: Principles of measurement devices and flow computation.
• Basic measurement and over-pressure protection equipment.
• Meters: Diaphragm, Rotary, Turbine, Orifice, Ultrasonic, and Coriolis.
• Over-pressure protection: Self-regulating regulators, pilot operated regulators, relief valves, slam-shut valves, and rupture disks.
• Gas Quality equipment, heating value, and Southern Star’s gas quality tariff.
• Gas Chromatographs: C6, C6+, C9, and C9+.
• Gas Quality Analyzers for Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide, Moisture, Sulfur, etc.
• High-level design and fabrication of meter and regulation skids to comply with federal regulations, safety, constructability, and ease of maintenance.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Minimum Qualifications:
• At least 18 years old by the start of the summer internship assignment.
• Maintain a cumulative GPA of 2.75 after each completed semester/term.
• Authorized to work in the United States.
• Currently pursuing a Bachelors’ degree in Mechanical/Civil Engineering or other related engineering discipline.
• Entering your junior or senior year of your degree program.
• License and Insurability:
• A valid driver’s license.
• Insurability under company policy.