Paid College Internship - Capital Programs, Cuyahoga County, Garfield Hts. - Construction, Planning & Design

What you will do for Planning and Design:

• Travel to collection sites to assist office staff with data collection
• Assists office staff by conducting literature research, collecting, processing & analyzing data & preparing preliminary reports for research or evaluating projects in the District 12 Planning Department
• Assists in the development of Transportation Asset Inventories &/or condition assessments & other Transportation Asset Management (TAM) Activities.
• Utilizes Geo-Spatial analysis to assist in map generation & spatial analysis (e.g., using GeoMedia &/or ESRI Arcview) to support TAM

In the Construction Department, you will:

• Receive training in proper procedures for inspection of work being done by contractors (e.g. widening & resurfacing projects, hazard elimination (safety upgrading), signing, guardrail, intersections, drainage facilities, forms & reinforcing steel; concrete placement on structures, flexible & rigid pavement; assist in bituminous plants, perform test on concrete & soil; assist in surveying, etc.
• Perform support functions in record keeping, maintain accurate data of work performed, organize materials, and compile information to assist in report preparation.

This is a temporary position involving various duties that will either supplement the student's major field of study and/or provide experience that is a useful addition to the student's education and meaningful preparation for future professional employment.

Student will serve as an understudy or assistant on small projects, receives training on procedures & performs specific technical tasks as assigned (e.g., operates a PC & CADD (Microstation) system & can perform duties on them independently as well as call up, work with & insert files; copy, update & revise existing drawings on the CADD database; create new drawings into the CADD database using sketches &/or ports of preexisting drawings, some of which may be on CADD already), performs calculations. Assists with engineering studies & preliminary engineering.

Use CADD applications within the District Office assisting in the development of highway reconstruction plans: a) plan & profile sheets of existing & proposed roadway improvements; b) highway & bridge related detail drawings; c) tables, summaries & general notes; d) mapping existing & proposed routes; e) finalization of plan sheets in reproducible form (plotting).

Performs miscellaneous duties to facilitate operational efficiency of work unit (e.g., research of plans and records, scan and reproduce plans).

Must currently be enrolled in a college or university and in good academic standing.

Civil Engineering and Construction Engineering preferred.