DE&C Engineering Intern

NRG Summer Internship Program

As an NRG employee, we encourage you to take charge of your career and development journey. We invite you to explore exciting opportunities across our businesses. You'll find that our dynamic work environment provides variety and challenge. Your growth is key to our ongoing success—take the lead in shaping your career development, goals and future!

NRG is bringing the power of energy to people and organizations by putting customers at the center of everything we do. We generate electricity and provide energy solutions and natural gas to millions of customers through our diverse portfolio of retail brands. A Fortune 500 company, operating in the United States and Canada, NRG delivers innovative solutions while advocating for competitive energy markets and customer choice, working towards a sustainable energy future.

Our 10-week program is designed to increase future employment potential for prospects while providing a valuable resource to the business. This Summer Internship will appeal to proactive and self-motivated college juniors/seniors with a genuine desire to learn about the energy business and industry. During the internship, candidates will work on real projects and have real responsibilities. NRG aims to help candidates build strengths and gain skills that can be transferred to any workplace and help them stand out from the crowd.

NRG is looking for self-driven, high-caliber individuals who can grasp complex business and technical issues and harness information and relationships to deliver solutions. In return, NRG will provide the support, guidance, and opportunities to help our ideal candidate be successful. Through this program, NRG seeks to help candidates make significant impact, inspire people, and provide exceptional customer service.

NRG Interns need to be able to demonstrate the following behaviors:

• Build and maintain effective and collaborative working relationships
• Have a positive impact through self-awareness and social skills
• Deliver excellent service to our internal and external customers
• Take initiative and set high personal performance standards
• Look at the bigger picture and recognize the impact of your actions
• Learn from experience to perform in new or changing situations
• Focus energy on what will make a difference

Minimum Qualifications:

• Degree discipline: Pursuing Bachelors
• Must have completed second year of college with a 3.0 GPA or higher
• Must be eligible to work in the United States without sponsorship

NRG and its subsidiaries are an Equal Opportunity Employer - EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability

Working Conditions:

Open office environment

Primary Location of Employment: Houston TX

Based on placement location, the schedule of your work week will be a hybrid work schedule: a combination of remote work and in-office per team needs

NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing.