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WSP USA Sustainability Intern - Summer 2024 in Seattle, Washington
This Opportunity
Nationally recognized as a Top 100 Internship Program, WSP USA hosts hundreds of interns across the United States to gain hands-on, meaningful work experience to enhance their education and professional aptitude. Our interns gain exposure to real projects while working side by side with senior staff. Through our Developing Professionals Network, interns gain mentorship, networking opportunities and lifelong career connections.
Our Built Ecology Team is seeking a Sustainability Intern - Summer 2024 to work out of our Los Angeles, CA, Boston, MA, Chicago, IL, Seattle, WA, and New York, NY offices. Our team works closely with architects, owners, and teams throughout WSP to advance sustainability, health, and resilience goals on large, complex projects around the world.
This temporary position is seeking individuals currently enrolled in an Undergraduate or Graduate degree program with an anticipated graduation date of August 2024 or later.
This 12 week internship will be part of the WSP Summer Internship Program that is scheduled to start on May 20th, 2024. The individual start date of the internship may be flexible.
Built Ecology is WSP’s national Built Environment Sustainability team, providing a broad range of services including sustainability consulting, high-performance design and analysis, building certifications, district-scale solutions, education, facilitation, and project management. We work across a wide range of project types and scales, from horizontal planning and district infrastructure to vertical design and construction, to ongoing performance and operations. Built Ecology has been directly responsible for driving many leading projects across the globe, including LEED Platinum buildings, Living Building Challenge and WELL projects, net-zero water and energy projects, EcoDistricts, corporate initiatives, and improvements for large building portfolios. Our solutions are typically innovative, integrated, and practical.
Our team takes a unique approach all our projects. We influence strategic decisions for the design of buildings and neighborhoods, infrastructure and landscapes, and organizational outcomes. Through our internship program, we offer an opportunity to experience built environment sustainability services (strategy, analysis, design and implementation) in a project delivery context.
Your Impact
Application of existing technical skills to projects in a professional setting and development of additional relevant technical skills
Gain experience in analysis methods & tools, reporting writing, and presentations related to sustainability
Develop teamwork skills required to create compelling deliverables and engage with clients and project teams
Learn the fundamental principles and tools used for computational design and advanced buildings analytics
Manage a variety of specific tasks with oversight from several project managers
Support sustainability strategy development and certification efforts (e.g. LEED, WELL, Fitwel, NZE)
Assist with renewable energy analysis and carbon-neutral building assessments
Develop strategic and technical recommendations for projects that is thoughtful, creative, practical, and effective
Facilitate conversations between multiple stakeholders to devise sustainability strategies
Produce high-quality, visually compelling presentations and deliverables
Complete training on assigned tasks.
Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources, and conduct, and adhere to WSP’s Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures.
Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs.
Please note that there is no relocation or housing assistance associated with this internship.
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
Actively enrolled in an accredited green building design, engineering, sustainability management, or related Undergraduate program.
Demonstrated interest in green building design, engineering, sustainability management, or related field and have a strong desire to advance skills related to WSP’s work and projects.
Competent interpersonal and communication skills when interacting with others, expressing ideas effectively and professionally to an engineering and non-engineering audience.
Capable of taking direction from leadership, mentors, and managers to executive projects.
Basic proficiency with technical writing, office automation, software, spreadsheets, technology, and tools.
Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
Authorization to work in the United States at the start of the internship
Preferred Qualifications
Ability to use Adobe Creative Suite for reports and presentations
Computer 3D model creation and development
Scripting and coding (e.g. Python or Grasshopper)
Knowledge of the building design and construction process
Knowledge of third-party green building rating systems (LEED, Passive House, LBC, WELL, Fitwel etc.)
Experience with energy, carbon, daylight, and CFD modeling software and analysis
Extensive experience with Excel and data analysis
Prior internship and leadership involvement on campus
Please note that there is no relocation or housing assistance associated with this internship.
Compensation:
Expected Salary: $19.13-$30.00/hr
WSP USA is providing the compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that the company in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities in addition to internal equity and geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, or federal law.
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About WSP
WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.
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WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.
At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?
WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.
The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.
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