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Current Opportunities

Please check back frequently for updates

Questions?

For questions, please contact Ms. Jo McKee, TDEC Division of Human Resources, at 615/253-4134, or by email at Jo.McKee@state.tn.us.

Application Instructions

  • The website for the state application is http://www.tn.gov/dohr/tnapp.htm


  • Students should choose "PRINT THE APPLICATION ONLY".


  • Scroll down to, and click on, "EMPLOYMENT APPLICATION".


  • Print it off, put "INTERN" for in the blank for job classification, complete, sign and forward to:

    Ms. Jo McKee, ASA
    TDEC/DHR
    L&C Tower - 12th Floor
    401 Church Street
    Nashville, TN 37243 – 0435

    Or fax to (615) 532-8859


  • Keep a copy of your completed application.
    • College students can earn money and gain valuable experience while working for TDEC!

    TDEC Bureau of Environment General Information

    Majors of interest

    The Bureau of Environment primarily employs college students majoring in the sciences and engineering in the intern positions. Knowledge of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is a plus for many of the assignments. There are some limited opportunities for students majoring in marketing, accounting or business.

    Student classifications

    Internships are available to students from freshman classification through graduate school. Interns must be full-time students.

    Pay

    Interns are typically paid at the hourly rate of $8.85 per hour (equivalent to a Clerk 2, salary grade 010 in the state compensation system.)

    Intern work locations

    Bureau of Environment interns can be employed at the TDEC’s central office in downtown Nashville, as well as at the eight Environmental Field Offices across the state (Memphis, Jackson, Nashville, Cookeville, Columbia, Knoxville, Johnson City and Chattanooga.) The availability of positions is determined annually by the need and budgets of the environmental programs.

    Internship length

    Interns in TDEC’s Bureau of Environment are typically employed during the summer (May through August). However, interns may be retained on a part-time basis through the year depending upon the needs and budget of the hiring division.

    Typical intern assignments

    The following is a sampling of past intern assignments:

    • Water sampling, measuring flow, entering data into computer, collecting parameters from streams, cleaning the lab.


    • Technical assistance in making sure that spreadsheets and databases were working right and created correctly for the data that needed to be analyzed, outreach at baseball parks and racetracks, created a manual for county officials so that they could design and potentially run their own permanent household hazardous waste facility.


    • Collecting Global Positioning System coordinates on Underground Storage Tank facilities.


    • Conducting investigations on Open Burning Complaints and issuing violations as well as advisements when necessary, collating and reorganizing air pollution files, participating in emission source complaints and inspections, aiding in the routine audit of regional air monitoring stations as well as analysis of data retrieved from ozone monitors. 


    • Determining latitude /longitude coordinates on High Quality waters using ArcGIS software and putting those coordinates into a file so that they can be uploaded into a web page. Information will eventually be accessible by the public and by state and federal agencies interested in permitting and other applications.