Innovation & Environmental Engineering Intern

Parsons Corporation

2mo ago

Applications are closed

Internship
Full-time
Off-cycle Internship
Engineering
Sustainability
Toronto

Requirements

Excellent Communication Skills:
You’ll be collaborating with and representing the team and Parsons to stakeholders, clients, and partners. You’ll need to work with technical and non-technical audiences including senior staff and understand how to tailor messaging to them.
Strategic and Analytical Thinking:
You’ll be working with people, processes, and technology to address a wide range of strategic business challenges.
Independence and Initiative:
You’ll be entrusted to work independently with your own responsibilities, from leading calls to contributing to programs, projects, and proposals. Don’t be afraid to propose your own ideas and ask questions.
Creativity and Adaptability:
You’ll be working in a dynamic environment with a wide breadth of evolving responsibilities. You’ll need to adapt, organize, and manage tasks, but bring your own style of working. Be bold, think outside the box, and challenge the status quo.
Preferred Qualifications:
Familiarity with one or more of:
Artificial intelligence, including prompt engineering, large language models and machine learning
Digital twins
CAD and modelling software (e.g., AutoCAD, Civil 3D, OpenRoads, etc.)
Geographic Information System (GIS) and other geospatial technologies
Drone operations
Software architecture
Systems design and integration
Data science, business intelligence, and business analytics
Design thinking mindset – an understanding of iterative, user-centred design methods and how they can be applied to develop client-focused solutions
An unrestricted driver’s license – travel will be required for field work, including to remote sites and Parsons’ offices across southern Ontario

Responsibilities

You’ll join the CTO Innovation Group in Infrastructure North America at Parsons, with a dual role supporting the Energy & Environment Sector in the Greater Toronto Region (GTR E&E Team). Your responsibilities will include:
Supporting the CTO Innovation Group:
Tracking technology trends and conducting market scans for innovations
Driving the practical application of emerging technologies in our core infrastructure business
Facilitating the adoption and development of new technology capabilities and practices
Introducing and optimizing digital processes and automations to enable our project teams to deliver faster and more consistently
Establishing and managing relationships with technology vendors and partners
Fostering a culture of innovation and transformative thinking
Facilitating communication and collaboration between the CTO Innovation Group and the GTR E&E Team to drive innovation and efficiencies
Working with the GTR E&E Team:
Conducting field work (e.g., groundwater, surface water and soil sampling) using various types of equipment
Supporting environmental impact assessments, environmental site assessments and remediations, excess soil management, and environmental compliance projects
Assisting project managers and field staff with program execution to ensure work is completed safely in a timely and efficient manner
Providing project support including data management and analysis associated with environmental investigations
Collaborating with the CTO Innovation Group to apply innovative technologies and practices to environmental projects
Exciting initiatives that you may support as part of the CTO Innovation Group include:
Conducting artificial intelligence pilots for internal and client use cases
Driving the adoption of digital delivery best practices globally across Parsons
Coordinating innovation challenges to identify new technologies and partners
Researching and preparing business cases for technologies, partnerships, and products
Applying data analytics best practices to measure and evaluate return on investments
Contributing to client-facing project delivery across different technical domains

Parsons Corporation

Technology

Industry

10,001+

Employees

1944

Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

Founded in 1944, Parsons Corporation, a digitally enabled solutions provider, is focused on creating the future of the defense, intelligence, and critical infrastructure markets. From Earth to outer space, we deliver tomorrow’s solutions today. Equipped with the capabilities required to take on any defense, intelligence, or critical infrastructure challenge, our agile, innovative, and disruptive approach enables us to deliver solutions at the speed of relevance. Our people are our greatest asset. We strive to be an employer of choice that engages employees in the community and creates rewarding career paths to cultivate a resilient workforce that is ready for the future. #WeAreParsons