GE Renewable Energy Engineering Internship (EID, EEDP) – Summer 2020

Job description

3328466
Additional Cities

Schenectady, Greenville
Career Level

Co-op/Intern
Relocation Assistance

No
Business

GE Renewable Energy
Business Segment

Renewable Energy Engineering Technology
Function

Engineering/Technology
Country/Territory

United States
Additional States/Provinces

New York, South Carolina
Postal Code

12345-6000
Role Summary/Purpose

Technical Engineering Interns are the pipeline for GE Renewable Energy’s Edison Engineering Development Program (EEDP). EEDP is an intensive program for people who have a real passion for technology, a drive for technical excellence, and share in GE's core beliefs. This is a 2-year rotational program designed to accelerate your professional development through intense technical training and a variety of business-critical assignments.
Essential Responsibilities

If you love technology, sustainability, and want a career in engineering, a technical internship at GE Renewable Energy is for you! Assignments are engineering projects taking on the world’s toughest challenges - clean and affordable energy - and motivated by real business priorities.
Technical Engineering Interns at GE Renewable Energy experience technically challenging, meaningful, and creative assignments in all segments of our Renewable Energy business, including assignments in Onshore Wind, LM Wind Power, Grid Solutions, Hybrids, and potentially Offshore Wind and Hydro. As an Intern, you'll have the opportunity to work on a variety of high priority teams, potentially including product design, systems, component design (such as towers, machine head, power conversion), controls and operability, advanced technology and manufacturing, testing and validation, aerodynamics, performance, quality, services, cost-out, and more.

EEDP graduates have the technical and business foundation to proactively and continually make creative contributions to GE's future.
Interns who are applicable candidates (rising undergraduate seniors or graduating master’s candidates) will be able to interview for the EEDP program while they are interns at GE. All internships will take place between May and August 2020, staggered by school schedules.
Qualifications/Requirements

• Students must be enrolled in a full-time undergraduate or graduate program in an engineering discipline as listed below from an ABET accredited university.
• Applicable Majors: Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Controls Engineering. Other Engineering majors such as: Aero Engineering, Computer Engineering, Materials Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, Computer Science, Civil Engineering, or other Energy related majors will be considered.
• GPA greater than or equal to 3.0/4.0 overall.
Desired Characteristics

• Preference will be given to persons with 3.2/4.0 overall or higher GPA in the majors noted.
• Strong dedication to a career in technology and a real passion for engineering
• Demonstrated analytical approach to problem solving, learning agility
• Excellent communication skills and ability to articulate technical problems in clear and simple terms
• Demonstrated and enthusiastic leadership and teambuilding skills
• Strong team and interpersonal skills, ability to work in project teams in an international environment
• Proven scholastic achievements and proactive leadership skills
About Us

GE is the world’s Digital Industrial Company, transforming industry with software-defined machines and solutions that are connected, responsive and predictive. Through our people, leadership development, services, technology and scale, GE delivers better outcomes for global customers by speaking the language of industry.
GE Renewable Energy is an 9 billion dollar start-up that brings together one of the broadest product and service portfolios of the renewable energy industry. With 22,000 employees present in more than 80 countries, and headquartered in Paris, GE Renewable Energy is backed-up by the resources of the world’s first digital industrial company. We take the earth’s most abundant resources - the strength of the wind, the force of water, and the heat of the sun, and put them to work with breakthrough technology that unleashes their true possibilities. Combining onshore and offshore wind, hydro and innovative technologies such as concentrated solar power, GE Renewable Energy has installed more than 400 gigawatts capacity globally to make the world work better and cleaner.
GE offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job. You may have to satisfy the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act.

GE offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE is anEqual Opportunity Employer . Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, gender (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran status or any other characteristics protected by law.
Additional Eligibility Qualifications

GE will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).
Primary State/Province

New York
Primary City

Schenectady