Intern, Project Engineering

2 weeks ago


Castlegar, Canada Seaspan Full time

Through the National Shipbuilding Strategy (NSS), the Government of Canada has embarked on one of the largest procurement projects since the Second World War. The NSS is a nation-building effort to create a sustainable Canadian shipbuilding industry, secure long-term job opportunities and build the next generation of ships for the Canadian Coast Guard and Royal Canadian Navy. Through its NSS–related work, Seaspan Shipyards is owning the redevelopment of our domestic shipbuilding industry on the West Coast and delivering on the promise of ships built in Canada, by Canadians.

Intern, Project Engineering

The Intern, Project Engineering will be responsible for supporting a multi-disciplinary engineering team to drive the delivery of the engineering work from design, functional design, detail design, planning, construction and ultimately to achieve acceptance, ensuring that all engineering scope of work for the project is completed, to meet cost and schedule requirements. The role provides a comprehensive project view to support engineering teams meet their commitments, and address issues, mitigate risks and improve opportunities. The position reports to the Senior Manager, Project Engineering.

Note: Due to business needs, this position is required to be fully on-site based at 2 Pemberton Avenue, North Vancouver.

What you’ll do:
  1. Applies a project management approach to complete pre-production and production support activities, including work performed by major subcontractors, and ensure the efficient delivery of engineering outputs.
  2. Supports the Project Engineering Team for the Joint Support Ships (JSS) by developing tools & processes to solve sophisticated technical problems to support ship building milestones.
  3. Identifies inefficiencies and areas that could be improved in the process and works with supervisor to determine potential solutions.
  4. Drives timely closure of technical issues to ensure that all engineering deliverables and inputs to other stakeholders are achieved and meet (or exceed) commitments.
  5. Responsible for application of an appropriate engineering maturity management culture and appropriate engineering lifecycle management, aligned with project objectives.
  6. Ensures maturity targets are agreed with key stakeholders.
What you’ll bring:
  • Enrollment in a Marine Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Integrated Engineering, Naval Architecture, Systems Engineering degree program.
  • Interested students should have a passion for shipbuilding and be interested in implementing Engineering concepts within a production environment.
  • Students must be comfortable working in a heavy industrial setting.
  • Self-starter with motivated curiosity and excellent communications skills
  • An ability to apply engineering skills using analytical tools and methods
  • Thrive on doing things that have not been done before (explorer mindset)
  • Strong technical skills including the ability to read and interpret technical specifications and drawings.
  • Excellent digital literacy including Excel/Word/PowerPoint.
  • Ability to work independently with minimal direction and manage their time effectively
  • Good organizational skills
Why you’ll love working here:

A supportive learning environment, great team culture and hands-on experience and training. Opportunity to grow your career and connect with like-minded students. Parking is included and to assist those that are using transit, we operate a complimentary shuttle bus Monday through Friday with various pick up and drop off points around North Vancouver.

Start Date of Internship: September 3rd, 2024

End Date of Internship: December 20th, 2024

Application Closing Date: Thursday June 13, 2024 at 11:59pm PST.

Please note: if we receive a large volume of applications, we may need to close this posting ahead of the closing date, therefore, we recommend applying early. Only those applicants under consideration will be contacted.

To learn more about our InternSHIP Program, visit our website: Seaspan’s Internships are 4 months in duration. We require a full-time commitment Monday-Friday, 40 hours per week with an hourly rate of $26.00/hour. #LI-ONSITE

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