Student Intern - Traffic Engineering/Transportation Planning

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Job Description:

Welcoming different perspectives — like yours — is one of our strongest attributes

Parsons is now hiring a co-op student with experience and desire to work on rail/transit, traffic, and municipal projects that change the fabric of our community. Parsons extensive experience in this field, combined with your engineering knowledge, will propel your career forward with opportunity for advancement with top performance. In this role you can expect to complete a wide variety of complex engineering assignments, applying engineering techniques and analyses within one discipline. You will apply advanced engineering techniques and analyses which may involve CAE (computer aided engineering)/CAD (computer aided design) applications and traffic microsimulation software.

If you are excited as we are about how rapidly the world is changing, and how technology developments can have an increasing and positive impact on the built infrastructure and how we live and move, then we want to hear from you. From projects related to active transportation, complete streets, Vision Zero, micromobility to the impending arrival of autonomous and connected vehicles; from learning new ways to apply artificial intelligence and Large Language Models to innovating and optimizing our systems and processes; we are constantly growing our capabilities and experience.

Still interested? You’ll have:

• Enrolled in an undergraduate Civil Engineering program
• Experience utilizing CAD and other PC software packages typically associated with engineering is preferred
• Exposure working on any or all, of traffic, road, highway, rail, transit, and water related infrastructure projects as well as project planning and engineering coordination skill set preferred
• Experience in traffic microsimulation software (VISSIM, Synchro, etc.) would be a strength
• Project controls experience strongly desired and construction management would be a suitable asset
• Design software knowledge (AutoCAD Civil3D and/or Microstation)

Our organization is truly a community that’s open for everyone to participate in making a difference. If you want your insights and ideas to be heard and possibly enacted for your advancement and ours, you'll feel at home here. We value diversity in all its forms, and so here, you will find no limits to your professional growth. We welcome you into the process of exchanging ideas with work that is both stimulating and profitable.

Minimum Clearance Required to Start:

Not Applicable/NoneThis position is part of our Critical Infrastructure team.For more than 75 years, our experts have designed and delivered the critical infrastructure that connects and protects communities around the world. We work in diverse, collaborative teams, both within the company and with our partners and customers, to plan, design, build, and modernize infrastructure. We take special pride in projects and solutions that improve communities as well as people’s quality of life by promoting economic growth, enhancing mobility, and increasing sustainability and res...