For many years, Pantex has implemented a summer internship program allowing college students and recent college graduates to gain valuable experience. The current internship program has deep roots, connecting all interns to the site’s past and future.
“We’ve had ‘summer employees’ for a long time, but the program didn’t get formally established as a ‘pipeline’ to a permanent job until about 1959,” said Katie Paul, Pantex historian.
Emmy Schniederjan, Octavio Almanza, and Isaac Kendrick are 2024 summer interns turned full-time Pantex employees.
It’s one thing to learn something and another to actually put it into practice. Internships help close the gap between knowledge and experience, which is especially important at Pantex where the work is specialized and unique to anywhere else.
by Lauren O'Brien, 2012 Summer Intern
The summer intern program is one of three student work programs B&W Pantex offers. It has been implemented nine out of the 11 years since B&W Pantex took over the management and operation of the Plant in 2001, and the Explosives Technology Division has had at least one intern each year.
