Description

The Oak Ridge National (ORNL) Laboratory Technical and Professional Internship (TPI) Program provides opportunities for undergraduate, graduate, and recent graduates to engage with ORNL safety and health professionals and connect with ORNL researchers and professional staff.

Expand your Industrial Hygiene skills and expertise this summer through hands-on experiences at the largest multi-program science and technology laboratory in the United States – ORNL! https://education.ornl.gov/TPI/ 

Job-shadow safety and health professionals who provide comprehensive industrial hygiene and safety oversight and planning of research activities at a federally owned contractor operated US Department of Energy National Laboratory. Learn the role of a safety and health professional by observing and performing quantitative and qualitative exposure assessments. Two to four Full-time positions are available for Summer 2025.

Category: Life Health and Medical Sciences: Industrial Hygiene

Start Dates Summer 2025 (Duration up to 12+ weeks, full time 40 hours/week)

            May 27, 2025 or

            June 2, 2025

Total hours to be completed 

            450-480 hours (full time, on-site 40 hr/week) or as required to meet curriculum requirements

Salary (stipend) and benefits (none offered)

Stipend (paid biweekly) 

Participants receive a biweekly stipend. Stipend payments and housing allowances are taxable as an educational benefit. There will be a delay after starting before you receive your first stipend. You should be prepared to cover all personal expenses for the first 30 days of your appointment.

$750 per week for undergraduate students, recent graduates (Associate's), or recently separated veterans with high school diploma/GED

$850 per week for recent graduates (Bachelor’s)

$950 per week for graduate students or recent graduates (Master’s)

Travel Expenses

Eligible participants whose permanent address is more than 50 miles from ORNL may receive a travel reimbursement of up to $1,000 for round-trip travel to and from ORNL

 APPLICATION DEADLINE: February 27, 2025 11:59 PM ET

https://zintellect.com/Opportunity/Details/ORNL-TPI-2025  

APPLICANT CRITERIA:

• Undergraduate  and graduate students 
• Recent Associate, Bachelor, and Masters graduates (within 2 years of graduation)
• Recently separated veterans

Citizenship - Applicants must be a U.S. citizen or Lawful Permanent Resident (LPR) at the time of application.

GPA - Have a cumulative GPA of at least 3.00 on a 4.00 scale at the time of application (undergraduate and graduate combined OR graduate GPA alone) 
Age - Be at least 18 years of age
 

Requirements

This is a full-time, 40 hours per week, onsite intern role.

Interns will be required to prepare an abstract and poster highlighting an activity performed during the internship and present observations and findings orally at an informal poster session.

Special projects activities (all performed under the supervision of professionals) may include one or more of the following:

•  Perform calibration and operation of direct-read monitoring and sample collection equipment, observe real time sampling and sample collection, enter sampling results into a corporate industrial hygiene tracking database, write draft reports of exposure sampling, and perform statistical analysis of sampling data.  
•  Participate in walkdown of laboratory tasks to determine hazards and controls, research chemical hazards and appropriate PPE selection, and review procedures and processes.
•  Development of a division or directorate specific inventory of existing Local Exhaust Ventilation systems by walkdown of facilities and laboratory spaces to collect information and recording information in an Excel spreadsheet system. In addition to identifying equipment numbers and locations, information collected will include presence or absence of low-flow hood alarms, and HEPA filtration. 
•  Review operational procedures to identify hazards and draft procedure specific Job Hazard Analysis documents. Perform walkdown of facility locations to identify hazards associated with facility maintenance tasks and conditions.
•  Develop training material and safety videos targeting research laboratory space managers  and provide input to newsletters, safety website content, and other safety-related communication.
•  Learn to apply basic concepts of ergonomics by participating in ergonomic assessments.
•  Review existing data and operations for a specific division to identify gaps in sampling and exposure documentation. Assist in performing and documenting exposure assessments to evaluate appropriateness of PPE selection.