Job Details
Company Summary
Recurrent Energy is a wholly owned subsidiary of Canadian Solar Inc. and is one of the world's largest and most geographically diversified utility-scale solar and energy storage project development, ownership, and O&M platforms. Recurrent Energy is focused on bringing low-cost clean energy and meaningful economic development to communities across the globe.
With a strong track record of originating, developing, financing, and building nearly 9 GWp of solar and 3 GWh of battery storage power plants across six continents, Recurrent Energy has established a leadership position in both solar and battery storage project development. With a total pipeline of 25 GWp in solar and 47 GWh in battery storage, of which 14 GW and 12 GWh respectively already have interconnections (as of January 31, 2023). In addition, Recurrent Energy s services business has 6 GW of projects under operations and maintenance contracts, either operational or contracted projects.
Position Title: Intern, Construction & Project Management
Department: EPC
Reports To: Head of Construction Management
Location: Austin, TX
Position Summary
The Company is seeking a PAID intern to support EPC (Engineering, Procurement, & Construction) efforts on the Construction Management team. This position will be specifically supporting construction efforts across a pipeline of projects targeting wholesale power markets in North America. The internship will cover the Summer term and is flexible with start/end dates; including opportunity to extend on a part-time basis into the fall semester/quarter! This internship is an opportunity to join an industry-leading team to help drive management decision making and grow the business.
Responsibilities
- Internal Meetings by taking meeting minutes and distributing the minutes to internal and external parties as needed.
- Sub-contractor RFIs and Submittals
- directly with the design team and coordinating submittal package submission internally and externally.
- progress of construction projects and ensure conformance to contract and help the Project Manager in preparing the PM reports with respect to cost, schedule, risk, logistics, performance, etc.
- in document management from EPCs.
- the PM/CM with their list of duties.
- the documents in E-Builder per the project requirements and be on top of the document structure as needed.
- with the Owners Engineer on the requirements as needed and provide the support to the entire project team.
- on collecting documents for the Independent Engineer along with manuals, instructions, safety docs.
Knowledge & Skills
- interest in a career in renewable energy & either construction, project management, or asset development.
- in MS Excel, Project, Word, & PowerPoint
- with Primavera P6 v7,or Microsoft Project a plus.
- quantitative aptitude with an extremely high level of attention to detail and a strong sense of personal responsibility and ownership of work product.
- personal organizational skills.
- resourceful and comfortable working in an unstructured, entrepreneurial environment.
Experience & Education
- of at least 2 years of coursework working toward a Bachelor s degree or any amount of coursework experience working towards a Graduate or MBA degree.
- a degree in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, or related field is desired.