The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) operates the high-voltage transmission system in the Pacific Northwest. The BPA Grid has been developed with careful consideration for system stability and reliability during disturbances. As part of the Remedial Action Scheme (RAS) Engineering team, the intern will assist with researching technical requirements, signal wiring, and programmable logic needed to support projects related to the BPA RAS System power grid.
The RAS is a scheme designed to detect predetermined system conditions and automatically take corrective actions, for example: during adverse weather conditions. Intern will be participating in actual power system equipment upgrade project work. By the end of the summer, the intern will:
- Demonstrate a basic knowledge of how to read and modify power system equipment schematics, wiring and logic diagrams.
- Demonstrate a basic knowledge of how to modify, install and test logic and settings in a programmable relay device.
The mentors’ teaching philosophy centers hands-on work and learning on the job through observation and shadowing. This is an in-person internship, with the expectation that the intern will work either part-time (200 hrs) or full-time (300 hrs) over the course of the summer. The number of total hours will be agreed upon at the beginning of the summer.
Students must be minimum age specified by June 15. These age requirements are strictly enforced by the mentoring organization, and there are no exceptions.
We strongly encourage students to apply who are from one or more systemically and historically excluded group, including but not limited to, non-cis-gendered students, girls, BIPOC, first-generation college-bound students, low-income/low-resourced students, students with disabilities, students who are neurodivergent, and those who speak a primary language other than English.
If you have any questions about the application, website technical issues and/or this position description, please contact Saturday Academy at ase@saturdayacademy.org. Do not contact the mentor directly. Contacting the mentor directly is grounds for disqualification of your ASE application.