Environmental Services Intern - Summer 2026

Learning begins in the classroom but there's no better place to gain real-world experience than with Stantec. Interns are an integral part of our teams, working to solve some of the world's most complex challenges.

As an intern, you'll work alongside our experienced practitioners and with our clients and communities. This hands-on experience will equip you with practical skills, build your network, and provide opportunities that set you up for success.

At Stantec, we approach every water and natural resource project we undertake—whether at the local, regional, or watershed level— thoughtfully, and execute it with excellence across all project phases. We partner with our clients to design fit-for-purpose solutions that address their communities' unique needs throughout the water infrastructure lifecycle. Our experts lead their fields and guide our work with scientific rigor, an innovative spirit, and a vision for growth. We're a place where you can apply your passion and collaborate with top talent on work that's critical to our clients, our communities, and the industry at large.

Your Opportunity

We're looking for interns for our summer 2026 internship program As an Intern for the West Region Environmental Services Group at Stantec, you can expect to carry out a variety of different tasks related to water resource management projects. You will learn about career offerings within Stantec, what is needed to become a successful consulting engineer with other interns from across the nation. Every day will allow you to work on an interesting project, while expanding your knowledge as you gain field and office experience in many disciplines.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Provide engineering support for projects involving stream restoration, ecosystem restoration, floodplain studies, permitting, erosion and sediment control, and stormwater management.
• Works with other engineering disciplines and professionals in the coordination of the project under the direction of a senior engineer/designer.
• Performs field work as directed by a senior engineer/designer. This may include field surveying, geomorphic surveys, construction observation, and other field reconnaissance, etc. Travel may be required.
• Drafting, computer modeling, data entry, assistance with preparation of construction plans and specifications. 
• Serving our customers by completing indirect tasks such as transporting equipment/tools between job sites, running samples to the appropriate laboratory, or delivering vehicles/equipment for maintenance and general office assistance.
• Perform basic calculations to analyze and design environmental system components using specialty software packages such as HEC-HMS, HEC-RAS, RIVERMorph, AutoCAD/Civil 3D, ArcGIS, etc.
• Assist in the preparation of design concept plans, permit packages, work plans, tables, figures, hydraulic calculations, erosion and sediment control plans, and associated post-construction stormwater management plans, and present information for quality review.
• Assist in basic interpretation and verifying compliance with applicable codes and engineering standards and practices.
• Complete other engineering/administrative duties as required.
• Respect and assist our clients by being responsive and reliable.
• Safety is a priority at Stantec. Safe practices in the field and office are required by not only our interns, but by every employee.
• Continually ask questions and grow in your relative field. Our employees will gladly answer any questions you have and will make sure your time with Stantec is an enjoyable and rewarding experience.