Student Internship - Design Center

About the role

At Gensler, we design for people. We leverage our global perspective and local presence to innovate at every scale. We’re not just designers. We’re tinkerers, craftspeople, visionaries, innovators and thought leaders. Fueled by passion and entrepreneurial spirit, our people bring new ideas to solve challenging problems. Whether you’re into sketching new ideas, hacking a building or growing client relationships in global markets, there’s something here for everyone. Our depth of expertise spans disciplines—from workplace and mixed use to education, hospitality, cultural institutions, digital tech, and more. Whether we’re dreaming into a future learning environment, planning a new urban district or designing a super tall building, we strive to make the everyday places people occupy more inspiring, more resilient and more impactful. To learn more about our internship programs, please visit gensler.com/internships.

As an intern in the Design Center, you will support the Design Resource Library and our Materials Hub. The materials library exists as a resource for designers and architects to find samples of products for their projects. This internship will focus on sorting and organizing samples, and assisting teams as needed. This opportunity will advance our intern’s knowledge of materials, their applications and performance, and sustainability.

Responsibilities

• Gain knowledge of materials by experiencing presentations and sitting in on manufacturer's sales rep product meetings
• Daily filing, organization and weeding of existing materials.
• Labeling, ordering new samples, corresponding with sales representatives
• Create a visual layout guide for our new design library
• Help manage materials
• Be responsible for sorting and packaging materials and contacting vendors for material returns and assisting in the Materials Hub for our material landfill-diversion efforts.
• Assist individual designers with material returns
• Assist with school material donation packaging and correspondence
• Updating the vendor directory
• Assist with miscellaneous tasks within the resource library
• Reordering paint swatches and refiling them
• Creating labels and tags using InDesign templates
• Ordering samples online

Qualifications

• You are currently enrolled in a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Interior Design; CIDA accredited program highly preferred
• You have completed your third year of an undergraduate program or first year of a graduate program and are returning to your program post-internship. This internship is not for recent graduates.
• Possess outstanding self-motivated, multi-tasking qualities
• Organizational, communication and follow-up skills a must
• Physical requirements include walking and standing throughout the day, bending, push and pull objects, and lifting up to 50 lbs.
• Comfortable working with potentially hazardous material including pieces of glass, tile, ceramic, metal, and wood with broken or sharp edges (protective gloves provided)
• Comfortable crouching and sitting on the floor to access low shelves and drawers