Project Controls Internship
SRF Consulting Group, Inc. creates lasting solutions to strengthen communities. Our engineers, planners, and designers collaborate with clients and their partners to ensure meaningful results for challenging projects and enrich everyday experiences. Our award-winning projects range from designing roadways, trails, and bridges to planning statewide transportation systems, to revitalizing neighborhoods and urban spaces.
As a 100 percent employee-owned company, team members share in the company’s growth and prosperity and receive stock ownership on a vesting schedule for their retirement. Our culture offers frequent companywide events, clubs, and sports teams, as well as opportunities to give back to the community. SRF’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion drives innovation and ensures everyone is welcome and celebrated.
Our dynamic and successful Project Controls group is seeking an intern based in our Minneapolis, MN or St. Paul, MN office. This group provides estimating and scheduling services for municipal streets and utilities, state and county highways, freeways, bridges, parks, trails, transit, and related facilities. This position has the potential for full-time employment upon graduation from an accredited program.
About the role
This internship offers hands-on experience in project controls, including estimating, scheduling, and construction administration. You will work alongside experienced professionals to develop skills in quantity take-offs, cost estimating, and critical path method scheduling.
Responsibilities
- Learn to read and understand civil plan sets at various levels of project design.
- Assist in the development of quantity take-offs using OST (On-Screen Take-Off).
- Learn to generate production-style estimates, including labor, equipment, and material resources, and apply production rates and quantities to develop fully built-up unit costs.
- Assist in developing critical path method (CPM) schedules in Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project.
- Assist with construction time determination schedules, including understanding schedule activities, logic, and durations.
- Assist in generating Primavera P6 schedule reports for contractor schedule reviews.
- Potential to assist with the SRF construction administration and survey team by participating in fieldwork on projects.
- Additional duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Progressing toward a BS in civil engineering, construction management, business administration, or a related 4-year degree, or a two-year civil engineering technician degree or prior experience working on a survey or construction crew.
- Demonstrates cooperative skills in working efficiently with a team and independently.
- Frequent sitting/standing, reaching with hands and arms, and repetitive movements with wrists, hands, and fingers.
- Occasional lifting, carrying, pushing, or pulling up to 10 pounds.
- Frequent reading and computer work.
- Must be 18 years or older.
- Valid Driver’s License with an acceptable driving record.
Qualifications
All candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for new employer visa sponsorship now or in the future.
Pay
$25.00 per hour. Compensation is determined by factors including education, experience, skills, job location, internal equity, and market analysis.