Intern, Project Management, Spring/Summer 2026

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Scotts Valley, CA
In-Office
Internship
Energy • Renewable Energy
The Role
The Project Management Intern will support coordination and execution of engineering projects, maintain timelines, improve workflows, and enhance team collaboration.
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What to Expect

Heron Power is a startup company building cutting-edge power electronics for the 21st-century grid. We aim to debottleneck the growth of electricity generation and consumption with scalable, innovative, and less costly hardware solutions, accelerating the electrification of everything.

Our first focus goal is to build better converters (inverters & rectifiers) to connect large-scale renewables, storage, and loads to the grid. Heron Power’s leadership team is made up of seasoned veterans who have designed and shipped gigawatts of power conversion products over the past decade.

We understand that no one individual knows everything. We will all learn a lot together and from each other. We strive to build a collaborative, enriching environment conducive to personal, technical, and career growth. You can expect to work in a dynamic and collaborative environment, driven by first principles engineering, solving difficult problems.

Job Overview

The Project Management Intern will support Heron Power’s engineering, operations, and product teams in driving high-quality execution across multiple areas of product launch. In this role, you will gain hands-on experience working within a fast-paced hardware environment, helping to coordinate timelines, track deliverables, and improve project workflows. You will work closely with project managers and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure that engineering milestones, prototype builds, and operational tasks are completed on schedule. This internship is ideal for someone who is highly organized, detail-oriented, and eager to learn how complex hardware products move from concept to production.

How You Will Contribute

• Responsible for planning, scheduling and tracking cross-functional engineering and manufacturing projects from ideation to completion

• Maintain project timelines, deliverables, and action item lists across engineering, operations, supply-chain, reliability, compliance and manufacturing

• Prepare and update project documentation, meeting notes and status reports

• Organize and contribute to team standups, reviews and planning meetings

• Track progress against key milestones and update internal tools (e.g. JIRA, or other PM systems)

• Own risk visibility and champion a “no surprises culture”: raise flags early, clearly and loudly to ensure the right conversations happen before issues become blockers

• Be a force multiplier: increase team velocity, reduce ambiguity, and raise the bar on product excellence through smart prioritization and exceptional execution

What You Will Bring

We have a short list of must-have requirements. We prioritize a strong grip on first principles, hands-on skills, and a sense of initiative. Domain-specific knowledge and experience will help determine the career level for each hire.

Must-Have Requirements

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in electrical, mechanical, industrial engineering or equivalent and demonstrated exceptional ability

• Proficient in using Project Management tools to establish right-to-left gantt representation of programs, including identification of critical path

• Excellent leadership, communication and interpersonal skills with a collaborative mindset, capable of influencing engineering, operations and executive teams

• Self-starter with a bias for action, who thrives in a fast-paced, ambiguous startup environment, and is comfortable building from scratch

• Excellent problem-solving skills and meticulous attention to detail

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience and familiarity in hardware, manufacturing, or infrastructure projects, with a track record of delivering complex, cross-functional programs

• Hands-on hardware assembly, diagnostic experience in a power electronics environment a plus

• Experience in layout software, such as AutoCAD, DraftSight, Revit or equivalent

• Proficiency in Project Management tools, such as MS Project, Smartsheet, Atlassian tools (JIRA, Confluence), Asana, Notion

If you are passionate about technology and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, we would love to hear from you. Join us in accelerating the electrification of everything at Heron Power.

Top Skills

Asana
Autocad
Draftsight
JIRA
Ms Project
Notion
Project Management Tools
Revit
Smartsheet
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The Company
HQ: Scotts Valley, California
43 Employees
Year Founded: 2024

What We Do

Energy demand across industries is accelerating at an unprecedented pace, and the need for more deployable, efficient, resilient, and scalable infrastructure has never been more critical. The sustainable energy transition alone demands a 3-5x increase in global electricity generation and consumption.

Heron Power is building cutting-edge power electronics for the 21st-century grid. We aim to debottleneck the growth of electricity generation and consumption with scalable, innovative, and less costly hardware solutions, accelerating the electrification of everything.

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