About the role#
As a Performance and Reliability Engineering Intern, you will work with engineers and analysts to drive reliability decisions. You will gain hands-on experience analyzing outage data, reliability metrics, and asset health information to identify trends and improve performance. This role provides exposure to utility operations where data insights influence investment decisions, equipment replacement strategies, and reliability initiatives.
What you'll do#
- Analyze outage data to identify patterns, recurring issues, underperforming circuits, and potential causes.
- Assist with the preparation, validation, and reconciliation of reliability metrics like SAIDI, SAIFI, and CAIDI.
- Support asset health analyses by combining equipment condition, age, and failure information.
- Help prioritize utility assets such as transformers, breakers, and circuits.
- Build and maintain dashboards, reports, and visualizations in Power BI.
- Clean, organize, and validate data from multiple utility systems.
- Participate in working sessions and performance reviews with engineers.
- Document data sources, assumptions, calculations, and analytical methodologies.
- Support special projects related to reliability improvement, root cause analysis, and infrastructure planning.
What you'll need#
- Currently pursuing a degree in engineering, data analytics, computer science, or a related field.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
- Interest in developing data analysis and visualization skills.
- Strong attention to detail and an interest in data quality, validation, and reconciliation.
- Ability to organize work, follow through on assignments, and collaborate with a multidisciplinary team.
- Curiosity about the energy industry, utility operations, reliability, and asset management.
- Familiarity with Power BI, SQL, or Python is preferred but not required.
- No prior utility experience is needed.
Location & details#
- This is a full-time, paid internship for Summer 2027.
- The position is on-site in Dayton, Ohio, or Indianapolis, Indiana.
About The AES Corporation
The AES Corporation is a public utility company founded in 1981. Based in Arlington, Virginia, the firm employs approximately 5,950 people. It specializes in energy solutions including clean, renewable, solar, wind, and green hydrogen power. The company works with organizations across various markets to develop customized energy systems.
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