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BUILD FREEDOM

Preparing to start your career? Look no further than Newport News Shipbuilding. Gain experience helping to design and build the world’s most advanced ships while contributing to our national security.

Internships

We offer paid summer internship opportunities with students working full-time (40 hours a week) for 10 consecutive weeks. Many of our summer interns transition into co-ops or accept full-time offers starting after the graduate. We begin accepting applications for summer internships each fall.

Getting ready to graduate?

We offer numerous entry-level career opportunities for recent college graduates.

As a co-op, you are learning and you're getting paid for it, which is a cool thing.

–Phillip Le

“Interning at Newport News Shipbuilding has allowed me to develop essential skills and connections that I can use throughout my career to come.”

–Britt Cortina

NNS is a great place to start a career. There are various types of opportunities offered within the shipyard and programs set in place to help you find what you are passionate about.

–Lukaya Laki

It’s nice to know what I’m coming to every day and being able to deliver freedom, to work on a naval nuclear warship and protect the country. I work all over to make sure the sailors are comfortable in their habitability unit.

–Brittany Moats