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Summer 2025 Civil Engineering Intern

Grand Rapids, MI, USA Req #361
Tuesday, November 12, 2024

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Progressive Companies’ Internship Program is a paid opportunity that provides a 100% real-world experience for students early in their career.  During the internship, you will apply academic learning to real-world situations and cultivate project support, problem-solving, and communication skills.  And with summer service-learning opportunities, community outings, wellness participation, and professional development lunch-and-learns, you’ll build a foundation for working in the Architectural field in the future.


As a Civil Engineering Intern, you will build on your competencies of interpersonal savvy and tech savvy to work collaboratively with project managers and other engineers to complete plan designs and production for civil engineering design projects while providing customer focus.  You will prepare design documents and permits for site plans, utility plans and profiles, road design, traffic signal plans, traffic studies, grading plans and right-of-way plans using AutoCAD Civil 3D software and MicroStation. 

Responsibilities:

  • Contribute to the project team to ensure they achieve project schedules and budgets.
  • Manage multiple projects in a timely and accurate manner, monitoring overall project progress according to the project scope and available resources.
  • Participate in estimating the time required to complete a project. 
    Alert your Technical Leader if you become aware of changes that could affect the project scope, schedule, or your work completion.
  • Provide drafting services and final engineering documents consistent with Progressive’s standards.
  • Assist in the preparation of calculations and analyses for storm water management systems, sanitary sewer, water supply and distribution, roadways, traffic studies, and traffic signal design.
  • Assist Senior Engineers with transportation related analyses by performing traffic data collection tasks, including intersection turning movements counts, intersection inventories, speed studies, gap studies, delay studies, travel time studies, parking studies, and non-motorized studies.  
  • Prepare Construction Permitting documents.
  • Compile crash data at intersections and prepare collision diagrams. 
  • Participate in field investigations and the process to diagnose problems.
  • Assist with field inspection services for conformance to plans and specifications and preparation of reports as a follow up. Assist in field data gathering for land surveying and traffic impact studies. 
  • May attend municipal meetings with senior team members. 
  • May consult with regulatory agencies when necessary.
  • Understand what the deliverable needs to be to meet your client’s project needs and what it takes to make projects successful.
  • Maintain a close relationship with your client throughout the project.

Qualifications:

  • Enrollment in an EAC/ABET-accredited Civil or Environmental Engineering program
  • Desire to learn about civil engineering.  Knowledge of the civil engineering and documentation process preferred. Knowledge of site plans, utility plans and profiles, road design, traffic signal plans, traffic studies, grading plans and right-of-way plans preferred.  
  • Knowledge of quality assurance/quality control processes and a strong attention to detail.
  • Ability to produce construction drawings and specifications.  Basic knowledge of civil standards and regulations, and the ability to research and apply/incorporate into technical documents.
  • Strong math, analytical, and problem-solving technical skills, and ability to communicate well as demonstrated through your competencies.
  • Knowledge of AutoCAD Civil 3D or MicroStation required. Experience with HEC RAS and EPANET (water distribution) and ArcGIS software, including ArcMap preferred.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel and Outlook required. Experience in Project, SharePoint, and Teams preferred. 

People Matter

Each individual’s background, knowledge, ability, and experience contributes to strengthening our organization and projects. Our dedication to diversity includes company provided training and education, equitable recruitment, a grassroots employee DEI committee, and robust community partnerships.

Progressive Companies is comprised of people with a variety of abilities, races, colors, religions, genders, sexual orientations, national origins, ages, veteran statuses, and more. As an equal opportunity employer, we believe diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential elements of innovative design. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.
 
Transforming Spaces. Empowering People. 

The talented professionals of Progressive Companies are designers of a bold new future, creating high-performance structures and pathways, delivering on today’s needs and preparing for what’s to come. We live by the idea that design isn’t simply about beauty, it’s about improving strategic outcomes—what we call Performance Based Design. Our work spans across the nation, allowing team members to work on a variety of exciting projects and maximize impact as trusted partners to our clients and communities. 
 
Sustainable and Inclusive 

We are dedicated to human-centered, sustainable, and inclusive design practices. We believe diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential to building trust, respect, and truly innovative design making spaces welcoming and accessible to all. Our sustainability approach embraces the AIA 2030 Commitment, together with a range of high performance, restorative, and regenerative strategies with a focus on climate responsive results to maximize positive impact in our industry.
 
Employee Owned 

We act like owners—because we are. From modest beginnings of four original engineering partners in 1962, to almost 300 architects, engineers, designers, and consultants across multiple regional offices today, the energy, resourcefulness, and entrepreneurial mindset you expect from a CEO come standard with every team member. 
 
Culture of Excellence 

The firm is continually ranked as one of the Best and Brightest Companies to Work For in the Nation®, with comprehensive benefits including an award-winning wellness program, hybrid work schedule, summer hours, profit-sharing, and employee stock ownership plan (ESOP). We take our work seriously, but have fun along the way, which fuels the creative spirit and supports a focus on work and life integration. 
Progressive Companies is committed to development and growth of team members through continuing education, mentorship, growth opportunities, and more. We are dedicated to giving back to our communities, with paid service-learning hours available to every employee and corporate sponsorship for a wide range of community organizations and activities. 

Other details

  • Job Family Civil Engineering
  • Job Function Intern
  • Pay Type Hourly
Location on Google Maps
  • Grand Rapids, MI, USA