Job Links
The following websites provide links to job boards, internships, fellowships, graduate and post-doctoral positions, and other opportunities in the hydropower and energy industries, federal government, national laboratories, and other organizations. For information on professional groups and associations, visit the Professional Network Development page .
Click in the table heading cells below to sort the organizations and opportunity types by alphabetical order.
| Organization | Opportunity Type | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Society of Civil Engineers | Jobs | This site lists engineering jobs in various organizations searchable by title, salary, job requirements, and geographic location for applicants of varying education levels. | Link |
| Center of Excellence for Clean Energy | Jobs | This site offers information on energy industry employers, employer websites and job postings, and energy careers websites specific to Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah, and Washington. | Link |
| Energy Central | Jobs | This job board targets utility and power industry professionals. | Link |
| National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) | Fellowships | Visit this page for information on NOAA Sea Grant fellowships, including the John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship Program . | Link |
| International Network on Offshore Renewable Energy (INORE) | Jobs | This job board is designed for personnel whose research experience or education is related to offshore renewable energy. | Link |
| Northwest Hydroelectric Association | Scholarship | The Julie A. Keil Women in Hydro Scholarship Fund provides scholarships for women enrolled in an accredited college, university, or technical school program majoring in a discipline relevant to the hydropower industry. The scholarship is based on merit and financial need. Grants are also available for women who plan to enter the hydropower industry to attend industry events. | Link |
| Society of Women Engineers | Jobs | This job board lists engineering opportunities. | Link |
| U.S. Office of Personnel Management | Internships | This site serves as a centralized location for internship information for students and recent graduates for federal agencies such as the U.S. Department of Energy, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, etc. | Link |
| Argonne National Laboratory | Graduate student | Argonne National Laboratory offers graduate research appointments and internships, temporary employment, training programs, visiting student programs, and faculty programs. | Link |
| Hydro Review | Jobs | Search and apply for hydro industry jobs; upload your resume; create job alerts; and access career resources, job searching tips, and tools. | Link |
| Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) | Internships | This site lists internship opportunities at PNNL for students at colleges, universities, and high schools in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and business fields during the summer or academic year. | Link |
| National Renewable Energy Laboratory | Internships | The National Renewable Energy Laboratory offers internship opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. | Link |
| National Renewable Energy Laboratory | Jobs | See job opportunities at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in renewable energy and energy efficiency research. | Link |
| National Renewable Energy Laboratory | Post-doctoral | See opportunities at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory for recent Ph.D. graduates with practical training in science or engineering and an interest in R&D. | Link |
| Sandia National Laboratories | Post-doctoral | Sandia National Laboratories offers opportunities for research freedom and funding. | Link |
| Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) | Graduate student | The Marine Energy Graduate Student Research Program offers awardees the opportunity to conduct research at their academic institution and at an external hosting facility carrying out research in marine energy and supporting the research plan they submit at the time of application. Hosting facility may be a government research facility, industry site (including but not limited to technology developers), universities, or other facility. | Link |
| Sandia National Laboratories | Fellowships | Distinguished Level Fellowships and Foundation Fellowships allow new Ph.D. scientists and engineers to further their professional development by pursuing independent research at Sandia National Laboratories. | Link |
| Sandia National Laboratories | Internships | Summer, year-round, and co-op internship opportunities are available at Sandia National Laboratories. | Link |
| U.S. General Services Administration | Fellowships | The Presidential Innovation Fellows program unites the nation's brightest technologists, designers, and strategists with federal agencies (including the U.S. Department of Energy) as yearlong entrepreneurs in residence. | Link |
| U.S. Office of Personnel Management | Fellowships | The Presidential Management Fellows Program offers a leadership development program at the entry level for advanced degree candidates, designed to help develop a cadre of potential government leaders in agencies such as the U.S. Department of Energy, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, etc. | Link |
| U.S. Office of Personnel Management | Recent graduate | This program affords developmental experiences in the federal government intended to promote possible careers in the civil service to individuals who have recently graduated from qualifying educational institutions or programs. Agencies include the U.S. Department of Energy, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, etc. | Link |
| U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) | Internships | DOE's Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) program encourages undergraduate students and recent graduates to pursue science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers by providing research experiences at one of 17 participating U.S. Department of Energy laboratories. | Link |
| National Science Foundation | Internships | The Engineering Research Initiation program builds engineering research capacity by investing in new academic investigators who have yet to receive research funding from federal agencies. | Link |
| U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) | Volunteer | DOE's Student Volunteer Program provides students enrolled in an accredited high school, college, or university with opportunities to explore energy careers and develop skills needed in today's workforce. | Link |
| U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) | Internships | The Community College Internship program seeks to encourage community college students to enter technical careers relevant to the DOE mission by providing 10-week internships at one of 15 DOE laboratories. Applicants must be currently enrolled as a full-time student at a community college or accredited 2-year college. | Link |
| U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) | Jobs | This page provides links to job offerings at DOE's National Laboratories. | Link |
| U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) | Internships | This page provides links to internships at DOE's National Laboratories. | Link |
| U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) | Graduate student | DOE's Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program prepares graduate students for science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) careers by providing graduate thesis research opportunities at Department of Energy laboratories. | Link |
| U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) | Internships | The Mentorship for Environmental Scholars Program is a 10-week paid summer internship at one of several participating DOE sites with the goal of increasing minority awareness and participation in the environmental science disciplines. The ideal applicants will be interested in environmental studies, environmental monitoring, environmental remediation, and/or environmental advocacy. | Link |
| National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) | Internships | NOAA's Chesapeake Bay Office and Chesapeake Research Consortium offer several paid summer internships primarily for college students. | Link |
| Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean, and Ecosystem Sciences (CICOES) | Internships | CICOES matches 10-12 summer undergraduate interns with a research project and work with a CICOES, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), or University of Washington scientist at the University of Washington campus or the NOAA Northwest Regional Center in Seattle. | Link |
| Princeton University | Internships | The Cooperative Institute for Modeling the Earth System at Princeton University in collaboration with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory is recruiting undergraduate and graduate students for 8-week research internships in atmospheric, oceanic, and earth system science. Awardees will work with host scientists at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, a world-leading center of earth system modeling, research, and prediction. | Link |
| National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) | Internships | NOAA's Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship includes financial awards and paid summer internship opportunities. Students must maintain a declared major in a discipline including oceanic, environmental, biological, and atmospheric sciences; engineering; or physical and social sciences including geography, physics, hydrology, geomatics, or teacher education that support NOAA's programs and mission. | Link |
| Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) | Postdoctoral | If you are a recent doctoral graduate and would like to obtain additional training within your field, ORISE can help you find a postdoctoral research fellowship at a national laboratory or federal research facility nationwide. | Link |
| Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) | Graduate student | ORISE offers summer, fall, and spring internship and fellowship programs at locations across the United States for graduate students in STEM disciplines to participate in laboratory experiences to expand their expertise beyond the traditional university setting. | Link |
| Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) | Recent graduate | ORISE offers challenging research opportunities to help prepare recent graduates for a career in STEM while providing them with laboratory knowledge to use in pursuit of an advanced degree. | Link |
| Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) | Internship | ORISE administers a variety of STEM internship and fellowship programs for undergraduate students at national laboratories and federal research facilities across the United States. | Link |
| Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) | Fellowship | ORISE administers a variety of STEM internship and fellowship programs for undergraduate students at national laboratories and federal research facilities across the United States. | Link |
| Northwest Hydroelectric Association | Jobs | A site for hydro employers to post jobs and job seekers to browse listings. | Link |
| Association of State Dam Safety Officials | Jobs | This virtual career center lists opportunities in the dam safety industry. | Link |
| Hydropower Foundation | Jobs | This site offers links to hydropower industry career postings. | Link |
| U.S. Bureau of Reclamation | Jobs | This job board lists positions with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. | Link |
| Duke Energy | Jobs | Find current job openings at Duke Energy organized by location, category, or keyword. | Link |
| Center for Energy Workforce Development | Jobs | The Get Into Energy Jobs site lists opportunities for trades, undergraduates, and graduates. Also see the Job Match-Up Tool . | Link |
| National Hydropower Association | Jobs | The National Hydropower Association Career Center allows job seekers to submit a resume, apply for jobs, and sign up for job alerts. | Link |
| Northwest Public Power Association | Jobs | This job board lists positions in utility districts, electric cooperatives, and municipalities in the western United States and Canada. | Link |
| Seattle City Light | Jobs | This job board lists positions with Seattle City Light, which employs journey-level electrical skilled trade workers in the following classifications: line workers, cable splicers, electrician constructors, communication electricians, meter electricians, and protection and control electricians. | Link |
| American Meteorological Society (AMS) | Fellowships | The AMS Fellowship Program is a source of unique opportunities for outstanding students looking to pursue graduate education in the atmospheric or related sciences. Prospective candidates from fields including atmospheric sciences, engineering, environmental sciences, hydrology, oceanography, and physics are encouraged to apply. | Link |
| U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) | Post-doctoral | DOE's Office of Science Early Career Research Program provides support to exceptional researchers during crucial early career years when many scientists do their most formative work. | Link |
| Hutton Junior Fisheries | Internships | Since 2001, the Hutton Junior Fisheries Biology Program has worked to create diversity and stimulate interest in Fisheries Science and Aquatic Resource Management through recruiting high school students from underrepresented backgrounds within the fisheries professional. | Link |
