Wastewater Process Engineer Intern — Impactful Hands-On

Black & Veatch; Overland Park (KS); On-site; USD 27,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

Black & Veatch seeks a Summer Process Engineer Intern to support wastewater treatment systems across our Kansas City, Dallas, and Houston offices. You will join a team addressing critical infrastructure challenges with hands-on design, analysis, and optimization tasks.

The internship emphasizes learning across projects, technologies, and disciplines within a collaborative, employee-owned culture. Ideal candidates are pursuing ABET-accredited chemical or mechanical engineering degrees and are

Qualifications

• No experience required; currently enrolled in ABET-accredited university in Chemical or Mechanical Engineering.
• Must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (background check, drug screen, MVR) as applicable.
• Prior internship experience in water/wastewater preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support planning, design, evaluation, and optimization of municipal and industrial wastewater treatment systems including biosolids and nutrient removal.
• Prepare basic calculations for analyses and designs.
• Assist in basic equipment selection.
• Schedule project deliverables and milestones.
• Collect, organize, and evaluate project data.

Skills

Learning on the Fly

Problem Solving

Intellectual horsepower

Written Communications

Drive For Results

Informing

Listening

Dealing with Ambiguity

Education

ABET-accredited Chemical or Mechanical Engineering program

Tools

P&ID/PFD

Job description

Black & Veatch seeks a Summer Process Engineer Intern to support wastewater treatment systems across our Kansas City, Dallas, and Houston offices. You will join a team addressing critical infrastructure challenges with hands-on design, analysis, and optimization tasks.

The internship emphasizes learning across projects, technologies, and disciplines within a collaborative, employee-owned culture. Ideal candidates are pursuing ABET-accredited chemical or mechanical engineering degrees and are