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Westinghouse Electric Company · Summer 2027
Environment & Sustainability Intern: a project built for this posting
The intern supports Westinghouse's corporate environment and sustainability program managers, helping roll out E&S standards and visiting Western Pennsylvania sites for inspections and compliance checks. They also gather and analyze environmental data, recommend corrective actions, and build training and briefing materials for employees.
- Company
- Westinghouse Electric Company
- Posting title
- Summer Intern - Environment & Sustainability
- Location
- Cranberry Township, PA
- Season
- Summer 2027
- Pay (as posted)
- $23.00 - $26.30 per hour (estimated)
- Majors named
- Sustainability, Environmental Science
Checked open on the employer's careers site on 2026-10-16. Read the full posting ↗
What this role is really testing
The project
Facility Sustainability Audit Report & Training One-Pager
A mock environmental compliance audit of a real or hypothetical facility, packaged as a professional PDF report with findings, a corrective action table, and a one-page employee training brief, directly mirroring the briefs, audits, and training materials this role requires. Recruiters can open two polished documents and immediately see the candidate can do the core work of the job.
- Pick a publicly available facility type (e.g., a manufacturing plant or university campus) and use its published sustainability or EHS data, or reasonable assumptions clearly labeled as such, to fill out a structured audit worksheet covering five categories: energy use, waste diversion, water consumption, hazardous materials handling, and regulatory signage/labeling. Record one finding (compliant, needs improvement, or non-compliant) per category with a one-sentence rationale, then build a corrective action table with columns for Finding, Root Cause, Recommended Action, and Target Timeline. Format this as a clean, single-page PDF using any word processor or slide tool you already know.
- Write a one-page employee training brief on the single highest-priority finding from your audit. Structure it with four labeled sections: Why It Matters (regulatory or environmental impact), What the Standard Requires (cite a real standard such as an EPA rule or ISO 14001 clause), What Employees Should Do Differently (three bullet points of concrete behavior), and How Progress Will Be Tracked. Use plain language suitable for a non-specialist audience, add one simple diagram or icon-based visual, and export it as a second PDF.
- Combine both PDFs into one submission-ready document, audit report first, training brief second, and write a three-sentence cover memo at the top addressed to a fictional Global Sustainability Program Manager summarizing your key finding, the recommended corrective action, and the expected environmental benefit. Save the final file as a single, clearly named PDF so a recruiter can open it and assess your analytical thinking, compliance knowledge, and communication clarity in under a minute.
Free account. Provieo walks you through it and turns it into a page with a link you can put on your application. This posting comes with you.
Questions
Do I need to know how to code?
No. For roles like this one, Provieo builds the project as a live case-study page: slides, tables and findings you fill in. You bring the thinking.
Where did this project come from?
Provieo read the Westinghouse Electric Company posting and generated it on 2026-10-16. If you paste the same posting yourself you may get a different project, so two applicants don't show up with the same one.
Is Provieo connected to Westinghouse Electric Company?
No. This is an independent project idea based on a public posting. It does not guarantee an interview.