**Job Description:** **Transmission Operations Summer Intern – 2025** Tri-State is an electric power utility providing electricity to rural electric cooperatives. We have a Transmission Operations Summer Intern opportunity for 2025. Students who have successfully completed two (2) to three (3) years of undergraduate study towards a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from an accredited college or university are encouraged to apply. Seniors who will be graduating in December or are planning to attend graduate school in the Fall are also encouraged to apply. **This summer position offers students hands on opportunity to work alongside System Operations team to manage real-time grid operations, including tasks such as contingency analysis, renewable project integration, reliability studies, and energy policy reviews.** **Responsibilities:** Under supervision, the intern will be supporting Dispatchers and Grid Operation Specialists. They will be reviewing procedures and working with multiple databases. The intern will also be scripting, database gathering, and tuning engineering tools. **Projects may include the following:** + FERC order 881 Implementation + Transmission lines and transformers database validation **Job Requirements:** + Basic knowledge of power systems and circuit analysis **Duration and Work Schedule** + The duration of the summer internship will be from about the end of May until the end of August. + The work schedule includes Monday through Friday, 8 hours per day, 6:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., 7:00am to 4:00pm, or 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., forty hours per week. **Tri-State offers a competitive pay rate for this position.** The position is based at Tri-State’s Headquarters at 1100 W. 116th Avenue, Westminster, CO 80234. **To apply** For more information and to apply please go to www.tristate.coop/careers then click on the Careers link and search for **Transmission Operations Intern.** Please also attach to your online application your resume and most recent college transcript. **Preference will be given to students who attend accredited colleges and universities in Tri-State’s service territory which includes Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska and New Mexico.** **Equal Opportunity Employer** **Responsibilities:** **Qualifications:** **About Us:** Tri-State is a wholesale power supply cooperative, operating on a not-for-profit basis, with 44 members, including 41 utility electric distribution cooperative and public power district members in four states: Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico and Wyoming. Together with its members, Tri-State delivers reliable, affordable and responsible power and energy services to more than a million electricity consumers across nearly 200,000 square miles of the West. Tri-State was founded in 1952 by its member systems to provide a reliable, cost-based supply of electricity. Headquartered in Westminster, Colo., approximately 1,200 people are employed by Tri-State across five states. Tri-State's electricity is generated from coal, natural gas and hydropower, with a rapidly increasing supply generated from wind and solar. Tri-State delivers power to its members through a transmission system that includes substation facilities, telecommunications sites and over 5,700 miles of high voltage transmission lines. Tri-State's transformative Responsible Energy Plan is reducing emissions, increasing renewable resources, developing new energy services and delivering more flexibility for its members. **Job Identification:** 307 **Job Category:** Transmission Operations **Posting Date:** 2025-01-13T15:00:00+00:00 **Job Schedule:** Full time **Hiring Salary Range:** $28.92-$33.52 **Locations:** 1100 W 116th Ave, Westminster, CO, 80234, US All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status.