Permitting Coordinator Intern (8182)

Are you looking for an opportunity with plenty of growth potential? Do you enjoy working in an exciting, fast-paced, collaborative environment? Are you interested in working with the world’s most innovative companies to create a more connected world?

Connecting Continents. Impacting Communities.

The backbone of the Internet is a series of high-tech subsea fiber optic cables deployed throughout the globe - SubCom has deployed over 50% of them. Our employees ensure data communications networks are engineered, manufactured, deployed to the highest standards, enabling faster and more reliable connectivity to communities worldwide. Every member of the SubCom team plays a role in an end-to-end process that is critical to enterprises, governments, big cities, and rural towns.

We encourage, expect, and value creativity, thoughtful risk taking, openness to change, and diverse perspectives. Whether you’re a seasoned applicant seeking a new and exciting challenge, or you’re new to the workforce and looking for a flexible, rewarding, and fast-paced position with an innovative and stable organization (since 1953), SubCom has opportunities to advance your career.

Position Overview

The Permitting Intern position is within the Marine Services’ Permitting & Regulatory Affairs organization with an overall purpose of supporting subsea telecommunications cable planning, survey, installation, and maintenance from a regulatory compliance perspective. Job reports to a Manager within Marine Services/Permitting. Expected results include research and analysis of regulatory requirements and best practices and specific recommendations to help drive process improvements and standard work related to project implementation and maintenance permitting.

Responsibilities

The Permit Intern will be given broad responsibility for assisting SubCom with regulatory scoping, acquisition, and compliance for both active project implementation and process improvements. In this role, you will will be given the opportunity to work both autonomously on process improvement initiatives and to work collaboratively with a SubCom Permit Manager on ongoing projects. There may also be opportunities to participate in internal and external professional development as it relates to contemporary regulatory issues and trends affecting the subsea cable industry.

• Manage and track regulatory requirement scoping, acquisition, and compliance and coordinate these efforts with subcontractors, SubCom's project teams, Customers, and Regulators.
• Create and update permitting plans of work in MS Project to manage and track permitting efforts.
• Contract and manage subcontractors including adherence to scopes of work and schedules.
• Prepare and update weekly reports to status permitting efforts.
• Identify and quantitatively and qualitatively categorize regulatory risk. Develop mitigation measures to avoid or minimize regulatory risk.
• Create, update, and archive quality documentation such as plans of work, flow charts, meeting minutes, etc.
• Manage internal budgets, contractor milling milestones, invoices, and budget forecasts.

Qualifications

Qualifications

• The ideal candidate would be a recent graduate or currently in pursuit of a Bachelor's Degree in Marine/Environmental Science or Engineering, Marine/Environmental Law, or International Studies from an accredited university or post-secondary school.
• The successful candidate will have an understanding of contemporary environmental issues (both marine and terrestrial), a basic understanding of laws and regulatory concepts affecting linear infrastructure projects, and familiarity with GIS and mapping/charts.
• Good teamwork, computer skills, good written and presentation abilities are expected.

NOTE: This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employee may perform other related duties as negotiated to meet the ongoing needs of the organization.

Candidates for positions with SubCom must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Employment eligibility verification will be required at the time of hire. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Our selection procedure is based on local, state and federal law.

Please be sure to attach a resume to your application. We are not able to consider applications without a resume.

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL EMPLOYER OPPORTUNITY

SubCom is committed to providing a work environment that prohibits discrimination based on age, color, disability, ethnicity, marital status, national origin, race, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability or any other characteristics protected by applicable law or regulation.

SubCom engineers, manufactures, and installs subsea fiber optic data cables - the unsung heroes of global communication. With an unrelenting focus on quality, reliability, and value, SubCom offers flexible end-to-end building blocks for the high-tech networks that are the backbone of the world's digital infrastructure. While the company's origins date back to the mid-19th century, SubCom has deployed enough cable to circle the equator more than 25 times since its entry into the communications industry in 1955.

SUBCOM’S CORE VALUES

Quality - Accountability - Teamwork - Innovation