Jobs at Associated Electric Cooperative Inc.

Supports reliability and predictive maintenance engineers at coal and gas power plants. Assists with reliability improvement initiatives, multidisciplinary troubleshooting, data analysis, and projects aimed at improving efficiency and reducing downtime across multiple plant sites. The internship includes mentorship, training, and practical engineering experience.

Electrical Engineering Intern supporting power plant electrical maintenance and improvement projects. Responsibilities include writing bid specifications, evaluating construction bids, assisting with relay upgrades and arc flash compliance, developing electronic databases, and supporting controls, PLC programming, documentation, and predictive maintenance. The role is full-time during summer 2027 and offers mentorship, training, and potential course credit.

Supports engineering projects at a power plant focused on fleet reliability, equipment failure analysis, preventative maintenance, testing, data collection, reporting, bid specifications, contractor evaluations, cost savings, and outage projects. The role is a full-time summer internship for a mechanical engineering student who has completed at least two years of a bachelor’s degree.

As a Supply Chain Associate, support procurement, inventory control, and asset management activities while building a foundation for a long-term career in supply chain functions.

Support cybersecurity for power plant control systems by maintaining network diagrams and asset inventories, assisting assessments and compliance, troubleshooting critical systems, and supporting control system modernization and documentation in collaboration with engineering and plant teams.

Leads the enterprise-wide Technology Enablement function, overseeing architecture, developer tools, application and data platforms, AI, infrastructure, cloud, datacenters, and networks. Builds shared technology foundations, establishes enterprise architecture, modernizes development practices, scales data and AI capabilities, and enables resilient grid systems. The role also drives adoption, transformation, security, reliability, incident response, operational excellence, and leadership development across technology teams.

Serve as a strategic administrative partner supporting department leadership across procurement, land, inventory control and vendor compliance. Manage contracts, leases, permits, records retention, RUS documentation, vendor onboarding, insurance compliance, and executive logistics. Coordinate cross-departmentally, lead meetings and events, identify process improvements, and independently run projects while providing high-level administrative support and stakeholder communication.

Lead risk-based financial, operational, compliance, and contractual audits from planning through reporting. Evaluate internal controls and processes, prepare findings, present recommendations to leadership and the Board, mentor junior auditors, and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to strengthen controls and governance.

The Senior Energy Contract Originator will lead negotiations and strategies for natural gas and power supply contracts, manage transportation agreements, and provide expert analysis for decision-making in energy portfolio management.

Summer Legal Intern will work with four in-house attorneys on regulatory and compliance matters, corporate governance, labor relations, document review and processing, and contract negotiation. The role involves legal research, drafting, and reviewing complex legal documents while providing support across various legal functions within the Executive Division in Springfield, Missouri.

Support development and maintenance of AECI's NERC reliability compliance program: interpret standards, coordinate audits, perform risk assessments and internal control testing, maintain compliance documentation and systems, investigate issues, and provide training and stakeholder engagement.

Lead creation and operation of a unified Technology Operations center: combine cyber and physical security with platform and support teams; run 24/7 monitoring and incident response; define operating model; build the underlying control platform, onboarding processes, observability, automation, and service expansion.

Work with the Cybersecurity team to design, develop, test, and maintain eLearning and digital training materials. Create graphics and promotional content, proofread and edit modules, upload and organize courses in the LMS, participate in planning meetings, and build a portfolio under mentorship.

Provide technical support and lead intermediate to large engineering projects for power generation facilities. Investigate complex mechanical systems, oversee repairs and pressure vessel inspections, ensure compliance, and integrate industry advancements into operations.