Construction Intern - Water - San Diego
- Black & Veatch Corporation
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Sep 16, 2021
Internship Description
We believe real value is powered by the unique skills and experiences of our professionals. The interchange of ideas from a diverse group of people gives our teams an expanded perspective and the ability to find better solutions for our clients.
Company : Black & Veatch Corporation
Req Id : 53461
Job Title : Construction Intern - Water - San Diego
Location : RGSDIE
Business Unit Sector : COR-WATER-WATER AMERICAS
Opportunity Type : College Intern
Relocation eligible : Yes
Full time/Part time : Full-Time
Project Only Hire : No
Visa Sponsorship Available: Yes
Job Summary
The Black & Veatch Summer Internship Program is designed to provide the following to students:
- Experience in a working environment
- Meaningful work assignments
- Introduction to Black & Veatch corporate culture
- Chance to network with experienced executives, leading professionals, and peers
- Opportunity to learn and expand classroom theory into practice
- Earn excellent hourly wage
For Black and Veatch it's designed to provide:
- Supervisors/Managers with opportunity to assess student's skills and abilities
- Source of potential future talent for organization
- Foster relationships with colleges and universities
Key Responsibilities
- Assist Field superintendents in every day task completion
- May include daily reports, material expediting/location, cost/progress reporting, etc
- Industrial field construction with ability to work in outdoor/rugged environment
- Individual contributor with no subordinates
Management Responsibilities
Preferred Qualifications
Preferred Skills:
- Analytical skills
- Communications skills, both written and oral
- Initiative
- Self starter, highly motivated
- Attention to detail
- Interpersonal skills
- Mathematical skills
- Problem solving skills
- Computer skills
Physical Demands:
• Lift and carry heavy items weighing up to 50 pounds.
• Stand, Kneel, Bend, Stoop, Move, and Walk long distances in and around confined, cluttered places, and uneven areas.
• See and hear naturally or with correction.
• Full range of motion and flexibility consistent with requirements of the job duties.
• Requires using hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls according to a set procedure.
• Requires repetitive movement.
• May require work above 5 feet in height.
• Climb and maintain balance on steel framework, stairs, ladders and scaffolds.
• Work up to a 12 hour shift doing hard physical labor in varying temperature extremes and other outside conditions.
Work Environment:
• Typical construction site environment:
• Requires working in cramped work spaces and getting into awkward positions.
• Requires working in very hot (above 90 F degrees) or very cold (below 32F degrees) temperatures and exposure to inclement weather such as dust, wind, snow, rain, etc.
• Requires working in extremely bright or low lighting conditions
• Includes exposure to sounds and noise levels that are distracting or uncomfortable.
• Work around hazardous equipment.
• Typical office environment.
• This position is considered a safety sensitive position.
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Black & Veatch is committed to being an employer of choice by creating a valuable work experience that keeps our people engaged, productive, safe and healthy.
Our comprehensive benefits portfolio is a key component of this commitment and offers an array of health care benefits including but not limited to medical, dental and vision insurances along with disability and a robust wellness program.
To support a healthy work-life balance, we offer flexible work schedules, paid vacation and holiday time, sick time, and dependent sick time.
A variety of additional benefits are available to our professionals, including a company-matched 401k plan, adoption reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, vendor discounts, an employment referral program, AD&D insurance, pre-taxed accounts, voluntary legal plan and the B&V Credit Union. Professionals may also be eligible for a performance-based bonus program.
We are proud to be a 100 percent ESOP-owned company. As employee-owners, our professionals are empowered to drive not only their personal growth, but the company's long-term achievements - and they share in the financial rewards of the success through stock ownership.
By valuing diverse voices and perspectives, we cultivate an authentically inclusive environment for professionals and are able to provide innovative and effective solutions for clients.
Black & Veatch Holding Company, its subsidiaries and its affiliated companies, complies with all Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) affirmative action laws and regulations. Black & Veatch does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, religion, color, sex, national origin, marital status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender Identity and expression, disability, veteran status, pregnancy status or other status protected by law.
What Commitment Means
Throughout the years, we’ve defined what it means to be committed to customers. Black & Veatch has stood by you, aligning our goals with yours, to build long-lasting relationships. Just as we did 25, 50, even 80 years ago, let’s continue to work together to improve the lives of people in the communities you serve.
Our story began in 1915 when two former University of Kansas graduates, Ernest Bateman (E.B.) Black and Nathan Thomas (N.T.) Veatch, formed a partnership with 12 employees in one office. Over the next 100 years, Black & Veatch would grow to become one of the world’s most successful engineering, procurement, consulting and construction (EPC) companies.