P2 Intern Program
What Students Will Do for You
- Assist you on environmental projects that go beyond compliance
- Work at your company full time during the summer
- Provide you with a future recruitment opportunity
- Research and recommend new technologies, product substitutions, recycling or reuse options
- Assist with project planning to minimize permitting requirements in sensitive or critical jurisdictional areas, such as wetlands.
What We Ask of You
- Provide a supervisor to work with the student on a daily basis
- Hire the student
- Share the cost, contributing $1200 end-of-summer salary bonus
- Provide a safe work environment with access to a phone and computer.
What DEC Will Do
- Work with companies to develop projects
- Interview and match students with companies
- Reimburse you for student's salary and expenses, plus 15% on salary to cover fringe costs
- Conduct a site visit to meet intern and supervisor and discuss project
- Host an end-of-summer Presentation Day in Albany, mandatory for interns, supervisors are encouraged to attend
- Prepare a brief case study on project success, subject to editorial approval by your company.
Goals for a P2 Project
Eligible projects should seek to eliminate or reduce waste at the source or the front end of a process or a system by one or more of the following:
- modifying production processes to eliminate the use of toxic materials
- substituting non-toxic or less-toxic substances
- implementing conservation techniques, and re-using materials.
P2 projects submitted from the energy and agricultural sectors that seek to prevent impairment of wetlands, groundwater sources, or other critical resources are also eligible. Interns can work on project development or implementation, as needed to assist the company.
Application Deadline March 5, 2010 (PDF, 297 Kb)
