Summer 2025 Intern Program: Operations Support - Right of Way

Find what makes you Superpowered. Become a Gridtern. 

As we help clear the path to a greener future, we need to ensure our people continue to power our progress. The world of energy is changing faster than ever! 

Our Gridtern Program provides current college students the ability to gain practical experience within the energy industry. Your summer will start with us on May 27, 2025, and will be filled with meaningful work experiences, professional development, networking, opportunities to get involved in your community and most importantly, have fun! 

So, join National Grid and be a part of something bigger—where your unique skills and passions can make a real difference. Together, we are superpowered. 

What You'll Do

Our Operations Support - Right of Way team plays a vital role in securing and managing National Grid’s land rights, including easements, property acquisitions, and occupancy permits. This team works to directly support the expansion, protection, and maintenance of our gas infrastructure throughout our New York State and New York City portfolio. Lastly, this team is also responsible for overseeing the management of existing property rights to ensure National Grid can continue to operate efficiently not only now but for future years to come.  
  
As an Intern in this role, you'll have the opportunity to analyze easement documents to create property layers within Geographic Information System (GIS) tools along with accurately mapping the location of existing easements. In addition, you will assist in reviewing and verifying public records to identify and confirm company easements and property rights. Lastly, as you organize and evaluate electronic data files, including legacy easements, you will also gain a deeper understanding of National Grid’s property rights operations while contributing to critical infrastructure projects.   

You will be in Hicksville, NY working in a Hybrid structure for the summer. You must be located within a commutable distance to the identified work location for the summer.  

What You'll Need

• Availability to start on program start date, May 27, 2025, and work full-time (40 hours a week) throughout your duration of the summer 
• Registered in school as a full-time student and continuing education full-time for Fall 2025 Semester  
• Pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Operations Support, Business Administration or related majors  
• Accumulated 18 or more credits and be 18 years of age  
• Work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States (including CPT & OPT)  

Preferred qualifications include: 

• Proficiency in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). 
• Strong attention to detail, along with effective verbal and written communication skills, and excellent organizational abilities. 

About Us

We keep people connected and society moving. But it’s so much more than that. We’re dreamers, big-thinkers, innovators, and builders.  

We’re shaping the current, to change the future. We know that a clean, fair, and affordable energy future is in our hands. So, we explore with energy, with innovation and technology powering our progress, and helping us to find a better way to deliver energy to all.  

National Grid supplies us with the environment to make it happen – inspiring us, giving us time to recharge and providing a safety net on tougher days.  

But it’s our people that provide our true superpower. They drive and sustain our growth, their unique differences only making us stronger.  

So join us, and power the future of energy. Find what makes you Superpowered. 

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