Job Title: Intern - Facilities Electrical Engineer (EPD)
Posted by: SLAC/Stanford on Apr 21, 2024
Location:
Menlo Park , CAJob Description:
Position Overview:
SLAC Facilities & Operation (F&O) coordinates activities site-wide for the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory campus encompassing over 150 office and science facilities to support the science mission while minimizing our environmental impact. The F&O Electrical Power Department has an internship opportunity for a student who is interested in Electrical Engineering or related fields and seeking to gain work experience. The Intern will work with the SLAC power department electrical engineering staff.
Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to the following: Understand the department's obligation to service experimental and conventional loads and the impact of electrical problems on experimental and conventional loads. Collects and processes data on the SLAC's electrical power system, documenting the electrical system and performing other activities that are pre-requisite for performing an engineering study. Study electrical calculation including electrical loads, short circuit currents, arc flash levels, and protective device coordination. Study power quality (PQ) issues such as transient voltages, surges, voltage sags and swells, harmonics, etc. which could impact the operation of some of the sensitive equipment. Learn how to set protective relays and circuit breaker trip units. Learn how to use various PQ monitors and go to experimental and conventional loads to conduct a PQ investigation. Learn how to use new data science methods to be more predictive, which in turn brings better reliability for our experimental and conventional loads. Learn how to use SCADA and Smart Meter technologies for investigation purposes. Assist Electrical Protection and Control Engineers in gathering PQ data and for benchmarking Download and compile PQ data files from these Smart meters to provide a monthly update and report. Review and analyze power quality data as part of power quality investigations. Program physical electric power meters and virtual meters on different platforms. Assist Electrical Protection and Control Engineer in data validation and for harmonics modeling perspective Utilize Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, and Tableau to manage dashboards. Serve as a resource for non-routine inquiries and requests. Opportunities and Benefits: Great resume builder for someone seeking sustainability, leadership, and implementation experience. Opportunity to become more closely connected to the Stanford/SLAC scientific community, as the intern will be working with both students and staff from many different disciplines. Opportunity to learn about electrical engineering (power discipline), and the working environment of a federal facility. Opportunity to work under electrical engineers to design electrical protection and control in power distribution systems for complex labs and commercial/industrial-type buildings. Note: This is an hourly, non-benefits eligible casual-nonexempt student position (work less than 50% full-time equivalent), not to exceed 980 hours in a calendar year. Hours are flexible and estimated to be an average of 12 hours per week. Eligible applicants must be at least 18 years of age, currently enrolled in an educational program, or recently graduated, and have US work authorization.
To be successful in this position you will bring: Current college or university student with a minimum of one full year of engineering-related study completed in the electrical engineering field. Ability to meet the Department of Energy DOE Site Security requirements Ability to perform building walk-through for electrical surveys. Experience performing basic data processing and analysis in Excel software Ability to create clear and precise documentation in the English language Strong oral communication skills in English. Self-motivated and able to work independently. SLAC employee competencies: Effective Decisions: Uses job knowledge and solid judgment to make quality decisions in a timely manner. Self-Development: Pursues a variety of venues and opportunities to continue learning and developing. Dependability: Can be counted on to deliver results with a sense of personal responsibility for expected outcomes. Initiative: Pursues work and interactions proactively with optimism, positive energy, and motivation to move things forward. Adaptability: Flexes as needed when change occurs and maintains an open outlook while adjusting and accommodating changes. Communication: Ensures effective information flow to various audiences and creates and delivers clear, appropriate written, spoken, and presented messages. Relationships: Builds relationships to foster trust, collaboration, and a positive climate to achieve common goals. Physical requirements and working conditions: Consistent with its obligations under the law, the University will provide reasonable accommodation to any employee with a disability who requires accommodation to perform the essential functions of the job. May work extended hours during peak business cycles. May work extended hours. Work Standards: Interpersonal Skills: Demonstrates the ability to work well with Stanford colleagues and clients and with external organizations. Promote Culture of Safety: Demonstrates commitment to personal responsibility and value for environment, safety, and security; communicates related concerns; uses and promotes safe behaviors based on training and lessons learned. Meets the applicable roles and responsibilities as described in the ESH Manual, Chapter 1-General Policy and Responsibilities: http://www-group.slac.stanford.edu/esh/eshmanual/pdfs/ESHch01.pdf Subject to and expected to comply with all applicable University policies and procedures, including but not limited to the personnel policies and other policies found in the University's Administrative Guide, http://adminguide.stanford.edu ----------- Working Title: Intern - Facilities Electrical Engineer, EPD . [Level II] Classification Title: SLAC Intern Students Job code: 0901 Employment Duration: Temporary The expected pay range for this position is $22.00 to 25.00 per hour. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Stanford University provides pay ranges representing its good faith estimate of what the university reasonably expects to pay for a position. The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, internal equity, geographic location and external market pay for comparable jobs.
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About SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
As one of 17 Department of Energy national labs, SLAC pushes the frontiers of human knowledge and drives discoveries that benefit humankind. We invent the tools that make those discoveries possible and share them with researchers all over the world. X-rays Reveal the Atomic World Our 2-mile-long particle accelerator is the lab’s backbone. Once the scene of major discoveries in particle physics, today it generates the world’s brightest X-rays for our revolutionary X-ray laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS). Thousands of researchers come to SLAC to use LCLS and the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource to probe matter in atomic detail. These X-ray studies help scientists understand the fundamental workings of nature and find solutions to real-world problems. Fundamental Science, Practical Benefits When researchers delve into basic details of the world around us, practical benefits often follow. This is true of research at SLAC. In chemistry, “molecular movies” made with our X-ray laser are capturing all the tiny steps of chemical reactions for the first time. This new understanding will help improve reactions that give us fuels, fertilizers and a host of other products. In biology, X-rays reveal how proteins – one of the key molecules of life – function in our bodies and in nature. This research has contributed to the development of medications for melanoma, flu and HIV and is aiding the fight against COVID-19, Ebola, high blood pressure and other ills. SLAC studies of exotic materials with quirky traits could have a profound impact on society, although it may be far in the future. Meanwhile, scientists use our X-ray beams for experiments to improve materials for computer chips, jet planes, refinery operations and “smart windows” that automatically adjust the amount of light coming in, to name a few.Even the accelerator technology developed for basic physics experiments has had a huge impact in medicine and industry, where it shrinks tumors, sterilizes medical supplies and hardens materials, among many other things. SLAC researchers are working to make accelerators much smaller and cheaper so they can accomplish even more. Solving Energy Challenges Many threads of SLAC research come together in the quest for clean, sustainable energy sources. We study how plants make energy from sunlight with an eye to doing the same, and customize chemical reactions for generating clean fuels. Our specialized X-ray equipment allows scientists to watch batteries, solar cells and fuel cells in operation, a crucial step in improving how they work. An Eye on the Cosmos SLAC started more than 50 years ago as a place to discover fundamental particles and forces. Today, our researchers still explore the universe at the largest and smallest scales. At the tiniest scale, we help search for new particles and forces at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe, where the Higgs boson was discovered. At the most sweeping scale, we’re building the world’s biggest digital camera for the widest, deepest survey of the night sky ever undertaken. Our longstanding expertise in building particle detectors is being put to use in experiments that search for dark matter and dark energy, probe the secrets of ghostly neutrinos, look for signs of cosmic inflation and capture high-energy particles from the most violent events in the universe. Key Partnerships Stanford University operates SLAC for the DOE Office of Science. Our five joint research centers and facilities with Stanford focus on cosmology and astrophysics, materials and energy science, catalysis, ultrafast science and cryogenic electron microscopy. SLAC’s location in Silicon Valley and our connections with DOE, Stanford and other leading research centers speed our progress. We also look for ways to work with industry to solve problems and spread the benefits of research out into society.