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Urban Design Intern - Summer 2024

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  • Internship
    Full-time
    Summer Internship
  • Design
  • Portland

Requirements

  • Actively enrolled in an accredited Urban Planning or related Undergraduate program.
  • Demonstrated interest in Urban Planning 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:
  • Experience using Adobe Software, SketchUp, and/or Rhino.
  • Prior internship and leadership involvement on campus

Responsibilities

  • Support a variety of Planning, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design tasks with the goal to develop technical, social, and ethical skills.
  • Learn basic principles of Planning, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design.
  • Assist with three-dimensional thinking, project research, field work, analysis, graphics, visualization, and writing.
  • Assist in collecting and maintaining project documentation.
  • Complete training on assigned tasks.
  • Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources and conduct, and adhere to WSP’s Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures.
  • Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs.

Consulting
Industry
1885
Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

At WSP in the U.S., our expertise lies at the intersection of the infrastructure and the skylines we have helped to shape from coast to coast. We can meet your needs with cross-disciplinary services across multiple sectors and markets including: advisory; buildings; water and environment; energy; and transportation & infrastructure. Our professionals have planned, designed and managed the construction of some of the most iconic high-rise buildings, bridges, highways, tunnels and transit and rail systems across the United States. Some of our most notable projects include major expansions of the New York and Los Angeles transit systems, as well as iconic buildings such as One World Trade Center and 432 Park Avenue in New York City, the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, and the U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, D.C.