Water Intern

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Description:

Arcadis is currently seeking a Water Engineering Intern to join our Akron, OH office. 

Working within our Design & Engineering teams, you'll create some of the world’s most iconic and ground-breaking structures and spaces that transform the world around us, from making journeys easier to opening public places that bring people together. 

The role sits within our global business area Resilience and will offer the opportunity to collaborate with our experienced water professionals, you will support and drive the development of projects, interact, and work with clients, and develop your technical capabilities.

Accountabilities:

As a Water intern you will get exposure to a variety of engineering and scientific fields most closely related to civil and electrical engineering, and geology/environmental science. You will interface with professionals on a daily and continuing basis through shadowing, joint meeting attendance and one on one tutorials. You may have opportunities to perform minor product and design research tasks as well as data collection and management tasks. Work will be performed in both office and field settings. You will receive a similar level of initial training as full-time, long-term employees. You will be asked to present on your tasks and findings in at the end of the internship in a formal presentation.

Typical Tasks and Time Distribution:

• Attend meetings in support of design professional and specific projects, learn aspects of projects and technical work, and help document project status – 40%


• Shadow/observe tasks by others in field or office – 25%


• Perform project specific research – 20%


• Perform data collection and management – 10%


• Develop/deliver presentation to manager – 5%

Qualifications & Experience:

Preferred Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a program seeking a degree in Civil or Environmental Engineering


• Previous internship or co-op experience involving similar civil engineering work


• Involvement in professional engineering club(s) or other engineering related extra curricular activities

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP,  401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement.  We offer nine paid holidays and 15 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $17.00 - $30.00 / hour. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.