Private Equity Sourcing Intern - Engineering

Heritage Holding • Boston, MA

3d • Onsite

About The Position

Heritage Holding is a Boston-based private investment firm focused on acquiring and operating lower middle market businesses generating $2–10 million of EBITDA. Since 2015, Heritage has completed more than 50 acquisitions across 10+ platforms in B2B services, including telecom, IT and cybersecurity, healthcare services, and skilled trades. We’re not just investors—we’re operators. Our team includes entrepreneurs, former CEOs, and investors passionate about building and running small businesses.

We are looking for a part-time fall semester intern (10-20 hrs per week) to support outbound outreach for our engineering platform. This person will help identify prospective customers, conduct cold calls, qualify leads, update outreach trackers, and support follow-up efforts with contractors, developers, property owners, municipalities, and other potential customers.

This is a hands-on role for someone who is comfortable picking up the phone, learning quickly, staying organized, and representing Heritage professionally. It is a strong fit for a student interested in sales, business development, private equity, entrepreneurship, construction, infrastructure, or engineering services.

Requirements

• Comfortable picking up the phone
• Ability to learn quickly
• Ability to stay organized
• Ability to represent Heritage professionally
• Self-starter
• Not afraid of rejection
• Enjoys talking to people
• Can bring structure to a high-volume outreach effort
• Coachable
• Reliable
• Eager to learn how business development works inside a growing engineering services platform

Nice To Haves

• Interest in sales
• Interest in business development
• Interest in private equity
• Interest in entrepreneurship
• Interest in construction
• Interest in infrastructure
• Interest in engineering services

Responsibilities

• Conduct outbound outreach to business owners and executives from target lists developed by the HH team.
• Introduce HH, explain our investment approach, and assess owner interest in a potential conversation.
• Qualify leads based on predefined criteria and schedule follow-up conversations when appropriate.
• Maintain ongoing communication with prospects.
• Record outreach activity, conversation notes, and next steps within HubSpot CRM.
• Maintain organized records of outreach activity and prospect status.
• Track outreach metrics including calls made, conversations held, and meetings scheduled.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: No Education Listed