Summer Graduate Intern
About The Position
Our Summer Internship Program offers temporary, full-time (35 hours per week) employment from June 1, 2026, through August 7, 2026. Work Location: 30-30 Thomson Avenue, LIC, NY 11101 As the City's primary capital construction project manager, DDC builds many of the civic facilities New Yorkers use every day. We provide communities with new or renovated structures such as firehouses, libraries, police precincts, courthouses, senior centers and more. We also improve vital infrastructure. Our staff delivers roadway, sewer, and water main construction projects in all five boroughs. We provide sidewalks, street reconstruction, water mains, sewers, and pedestrian ramps quality infrastructure that is essential for a healthy, resilient city. DDC’s Summer Internship Program is an opportunity for a select group of students to gain valuable experience in the architecture, engineering, design, safety, and construction management professions within a public service context. Students will gain hands-on technical experience through specific field assignments or task specific office work and a mentoring relationship with senior-level technical staff. They will also have the opportunity, through a combination of seminars, site visits, and on-the-job training, to learn about the challenges of upgrading and constructing the City’s public buildings and street infrastructure. The Infrastructure Division is committed to delivering best-in-class infrastructure projects for the City of New York, on time and on budget. A major objective of the division is the overall coordination of the different project components requested by the various sponsor agencies. This includes all aspects of a project including sewers (sanitary, storm, and/or combined), water mains (distribution and/or trunk), utility coordination, curbs, sidewalks, traffic signals, lighting, pedestrian ramps, hydrants, catch basins, trees, urban landscaping, plazas, total street reconstructions, resiliency, and flood mitigation. The Infrastructure Division is seeking three Graduate Students to support the Design Unit’s Sustainable Coordination and Program Management Unit’s Pedestrian Ramps Program, and Bid Analysis teams. The Sustainable Coordination’s Summer Graduate Intern will be assisting the team with tree inventories, creating presentation for sustainability and urban design issues, and assisting with management of green infrastructure and urban design projects. The Bid Analysis’ Summer Graduate Intern will be assisting the team in the following: updating Loaded Costs per outcome (corner, lane mile), updating FY inflation analysis, learning about Infra's bidding process and pricing, this involves propose process improvements, propose automations, and propose additional/alternative methods for analysis. Additionally, the intern will be assisting with updating bid assignment tracker, updating/proposing improvements to our PC Infra dashboards, providing backup to bid analysts, Adhoc analysis/reporting, creating SQL queries on database, and cross-training with FEP. The Pedestrian Ramps Program’s Summer Graduate Intern will be assisting the team with field visits for Mark outs/Substantial Completion Walkthroughs/Surveys, inputting completed locations into Fulcrum software, tracking and assisting with updates in Daily Construction Progress, assisting with conflict checks, tracking and assisting with updates to tracker sheets, and attending project(s) progress meetings.
Requirements
- Candidates must be currently enrolled in a graduate degree program in an accredited college, university or law school.
- Authorization to work in the United States is required for this position.
- Applicants are responsible for ensuring that they meet all qualifying requirements for this position, at the time of application.
Responsibilities
- assisting the team with tree inventories
- creating presentation for sustainability and urban design issues
- assisting with management of green infrastructure and urban design projects
- updating Loaded Costs per outcome (corner, lane mile)
- updating FY inflation analysis
- learning about Infra's bidding process and pricing, this involves propose process improvements, propose automations, and propose additional/alternative methods for analysis
- updating bid assignment tracker
- updating/proposing improvements to our PC Infra dashboards
- providing backup to bid analysts
- Adhoc analysis/reporting
- creating SQL queries on database
- cross-training with FEP
- assisting the team with field visits for Mark outs/Substantial Completion Walkthroughs/Surveys
- inputting completed locations into Fulcrum software
- tracking and assisting with updates in Daily Construction Progress
- assisting with conflict checks
- tracking and assisting with updates to tracker sheets
- attending project(s) progress meetings
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Intern
Number of Employees
101-250 employees
