Design Management Intern

About the Role

Be an integrated team player and look for new, innovative ways to improve our approach, balancing design and build to benefit our customers. Facilitate a healthy integrated team structure and workflow. Observe day-to-day activities of how a Design Manager builds trust between themselves and every team member, and seeks creating an environment of idea sharing, fairness, and professionalism.

Responsibilities

• Support Whiting-Turner Design Manager with group and project-specific responsibilities.
• Champion innovation and the best possible project for the customer, within program, quality, budget, schedule, and sustainability constraints.
• Support proposal development with written narratives, visual images, and graphics.
• Attend presentation preparations and develop presentation skills.
• Support the A/E through programming, code reviews, and constructability.
• Assist with determining functionality and quality of the A/E team’s solution.
• Assist with design review, meetings, and monitoring the Design Decisions Log.
• Assist project teams with value engineering ideas.
• Track follow-up items for A/E team action and information needed from WT, subcontractors, vendors, and/or the client to keep the design moving forward.
• Regularly attend construction meetings and conduct site walks with design team.
• Help WT project team with design-related issues during construction.
• Ensure design team completes their project construction phase and close-out commitments.
• Assist with updating and maintaining WT Design Management tools and resources.
• Assist with design team networking and selection.
• Travel: may be assigned to the office, jobsite, or a mix of both; travel outside of daily assigned location may include day trips to support project teams within the assigned operating group.

Qualifications

• College Degree: Architecture or similar design major (Interior Design, Architectural Engineering, etc.).
• Course Work: In addition to standard classes to support the architectural discipline, the following are recommended but not required:
  • General construction management class to gain exposure to the construction process, project management and project delivery methods (Construction Management at Risk, Design-Build, Integrated Project Delivery, etc.).
  • Classes in estimating, scheduling, and project controls.
  • Professional practice, finance, and accounting.
  • Computer application in design (BIM) and clash detection.
• Experience: Exposure to design in a professional setting is recommended but not required; working/interning for an Architect or Interior Design firm will be most helpful; working/interning for a General Contractor or Trade Contractor; working/interning for a Design Consultant (civil engineering, structural engineer, mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, etc.); internships in a non-design/construction-related field or school-related work positions may be considered if the candidate expresses a solid interest working in the design/construction industry.
• Professional Interests: Architecture and participating in the design process; Construction and participating in the building process; Architectural License or other applicable design licensure (e.g. RA, CID, PE, etc.); Design management, contracts, cost, and scheduling; Advanced/alternative project delivery methods; Emerging initiatives and technologies for design and construction; Participating in regional and national professional organizations.
• Software Experience: Autodesk Suite – AutoCAD, Revit, Navisworks, other BIM/CAD software; Office365 Suite – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, etc.; Bluebeam, Primavera P6, Touchplan, other pull planning software.