Contracted Student Intern - Electrical Engineering Fall 2025

Who We Are\:

The Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) seeks to protect, preserve, and enhance Massachusetts’ environmental resources and create a clean energy future for all residents. Through the stewardship of open spaces, the protection of environmental resources, and the advancement of clean energy, EEA works tirelessly to make Massachusetts a wonderful place to live, work, and raise a family. Our commitment to environmental justice ensures that every resident, regardless of background or location, can live in a safe, clean environment and shares equally in the benefits of the clean energy transition.

Who We Are as an Employer\:

At EEA, we create meaningful, inclusive opportunities that empower our employees to make a real difference in shaping the environmental future of Massachusetts. We foster a workplace culture where diversity is valued, innovation is encouraged, and collaboration thrives. Our employees play a vital role in advancing sustainability, environmental justice, and clean energy solutions, ensuring a positive and lasting impact on Massachusetts and its residents.

Agency Description\:

The Department of Conservation and Recreation’s mission is to protect, promote and enhance our common wealth of natural, cultural and recreational resources for the well-being of all. The DCR is steward to one of the largest and most diverse state parks systems in the nation which includes more than 450,000 acres of parks, forests, water supply protection lands, beaches, lakes, ponds, playgrounds, swimming pools, skating rinks, trails, golf courses and parkways. DCR strives to be an exemplary leader in conservation and recreation. DCR’s staff is passionate, dedicated, and continuously employs best practices that are informed by expertise, and creates a sense of place through carrying out the mission.

About the Division of Design and Engineering\: The DCR’s Division of Design and Engineering program spans across many engineering disciplines from environmental engineering, renewable energies, facilities, construction, and transportation projects, water resources and dam safety, and electrical engineering. With the 3rd largest capital program budget in Massachusetts state government, our dynamic team engages in the adaptation of public lands and historic infrastructure to improve climate resiliency, supports critical infrastructure and public works, energy conservation, and stewardship of public works and resources.

Job Opening\:

The Department of Conservation and Recreation, seeks applicants for a Contracted Student Interns – Electrical Engineering Fall 2025 to perform the following duties\:

Please submit a cover letter and resume as part of the application process.

Position Information\:

Contracted Student Internship\: Electrical Engineering

Location\: 10 Park Plaza, Boston, MA

Start/End Date\: 7/27/2025 - 12/13/2025

Salary Rate\: $24.00 per hour

Weekly Hours\: 37.5 hours

Number of Openings\: 1 position

Interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis.

The student intern will assist in various engineering projects aimed at preserving and enhancing our natural and built environments with DCR’s Division of Design & Engineering. These contracted positions offer a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience in construction engineering, facility maintenance, project management, infrastructure management, and design within the realm of conservation.

Position summary\:

DCR has over 10,000 streetlights within its properties, illuminating pathways, parkways, and athletic fields. This position will assist DCR’s Electrical Engineering Section with creating and managing streetlight data by producing data points in a map to show location, picture images, and attributes for all DCR streetlights, updating web maps and web apps, opening & closing existing GIS Streetlights Data Gaps, identifying if a streetlight’s structure was updated, removed, abandoned, or ownership changed.

DCR’s Electrical Engineering Section manages all electrical systems and components from generators to lighting, transformers, high & low voltage systems. As part of the management of these systems we also do an update of documentation when upgrades occur with various components such as updating construction plans and Streetlights GIS system. In this section, the co-op would be taking on tasks of helping with updating construction plans and GIS Streetlight as well as other related duties.

Specific duties\:

• Working with and improving the streetlights data scheme.
• Determining streetlights data collection/update/maintenance workflow.
• Cleanup and QA/QC of existing and new data via fieldwork and office work.
• Fieldwork – mapping Data Gaps and updating Data Gaps that are out-of-date using GPS (ArcGIS Field Maps) for data collection and desktop data editing in ArcGIS Pro.
• Creating documentation for fieldwork techniques, editing techniques, and other workflows.
• Working with the Electrical Engineering Section to update GIS Streetlights.
• Maintaining GIS Streetlights data for use in web apps for staff and the public.
• Updating MassGIS's DCR streetlights layers.
• And other related duties as required such e.g. updating construction plans using ACAD.

Preferred Qualifications\:

• Strong GIS background in cartography and data editing
• GPS fieldwork experience and motivation to do intensive fieldwork.
• Strong written and oral communication skills for outreach to internal and external partners.
• Experience using AutoCAD

Benefits

• Gain hands-on experience in construction engineering, facility maintenance, and infrastructure management.
• Opportunity to work on diverse projects within a dynamic and collaborative environment.
• Mentorship from experienced professionals in the field of conservation engineering and management.
• Potential for academic credit or professional development opportunities, subject to approval by the intern's educational institution.

First consideration will be given to those applicants that apply within the first 14 days.

Please see Preferred Qualifications.

Comprehensive Benefits

When you embark on a career with the Commonwealth, you are offered an outstanding suite of employee benefits that add to the overall value of your compensation package. We take pride in providing a work experience that supports you, your loved ones, and your future.

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An Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer. Females, minorities, veterans, and persons with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.

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