Traffic Engineering Intern- Summer 2024 - Lexington, United States - WSP Global Inc.

Description

This Opportunity

Nationally recognized as a Top 100 Internship Program, WSP USA hosts hundreds of interns across the United States to gain hands-on, meaningful work experience to enhance their education and professional aptitude.

Our interns gain exposure to real projects while working side by side with senior staff. Through our Developing Professionals Network, interns gain mentorship, networking opportunities and lifelong career connections.

Our

Traffic and Planning Team

is seeking a Traffic Engineering Intern-Summer 2024 to work out of our Lexington, KY office.

Your Impact

Support a variety of engineering tasks with the goal to develop technical, social, and ethical skills.

Learn basic principles of Transportation Engineering.

Assist with project research, field work, and preliminary design calculations and analysis.

Perform basic design tasks and drawings using computer-aided design (CADD) related to the development of conceptual transportation projects in AutoCAD, Civil 3D, InRoads/OpenRoads and/or MicroStation.

Support preparation of final design plans, special provisions, and cost estimates.

Assist in collecting and maintaining project documentation.

Complete training on assigned tasks.

Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs.

Please note that there is no relocation or housing assistance associated with this internship.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

Actively enrolled in an accredited Civil Engineering or related Undergraduate program.

Demonstrated interest in Traffic Engineering or related field and have a strong desire to advance skills related to WSP's work and projects.

Competent interpersonal and communication skills when interacting with others, expressing ideas effectively and professionally to an engineering and non-engineering audience.

Capable of taking direction from leadership, mentors, and managers to executive projects.

Basic proficiency with technical writing, office automation, software, spreadsheets, technology, and tools.

Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP's health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.

Authorization to work in the United States at the start of the internship

Preferred Qualifications

Actively enrolled in an accredited Civil Engineering, or related, Masters or PhD program.

Experience using AutoCAD, MicroStation, Microsoft Office Suite or OpenRoads.

Prior internship and leadership involvement on campus.

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