Design Management Intern, Summer 2027 - Transmission & Distribution

About Burns & McDonnell

At Burns & McDonnell, you'll be empowered to build not just projects, but your career. Our expansive service offerings means stability, job security and incredible potential for growth. Move up the project management or sales cycle, or across departments and groups. Explore opportunities across our family of companies. Establish and achieve evolving goals along your career journey — all at the same company. Just choose your starting point and go.

We take on the world's toughest challenges and use our skills, experience, and courage to solve them. Since 2017, we have grown our presence in the U.K. with offices in Birmingham, London, and Glasgow. Working from more than 75 offices globally , our professionals transform communities through the vital infrastructure that sustains and improves quality of life.

Description

Chart your own course and change the world — with the support of people whose interests are aligned with yours. At Burns & McDonnell, opportunity is waiting. We’re looking for people with big ideas and an entrepreneurial mindset. It’s those kinds of people who’ve helped us grow from a small consulting business back in 1898 to a global leader in engineering, construction and consulting solutions.

Today, we’re a thriving company with more than 10,000 professionals working in 75 offices worldwide and recognised as the global leader in the industry.

The Transmission & Distribution group is responsible for the planning and design of electrical transmission projects in power delivery, including overhead transmission, underground transmission, distribution systems, substation design, telecommunication & network engineering, pipelines, renewable power integration, security, grid modernisation and more. This opportunity is for a summer 2027 internship.

The Design Management Intern will assist with project scope, scheduling, documentation, and team communication. This role supports tracking milestones, maintaining records, and coordinating updates across engineering teams to ensure smooth project execution.

• Assist with tasks that may include filing, scanning, data entry, documentation, Power Point presentation.
• Assist with responses to general questions.
• Participate in continuous improvement efforts by collecting and analysing data.
• Present solutions to concerns.
• Research solutions to project concerns; analyse and recommend solutions to problems.
• Assist with ad hoc projects as assigned by managers.
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Complies with all policies and standards

Qualifications

• Pursuit of Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related degree from an accredited program.
• Currently enrolled, and in good standing, in a post-secondary education and/or technical certificate program in a field related to the work done in the department.
• Prior internship and/or related consulting experience preferred.
• Actively involved in campus, community or other volunteer activities or organisations.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
• Basic knowledge and experience in Microsoft Office programs, including, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
• Demonstrated leadership skills.
• Self-motivated and eager learner, aptitude to grow and develop within the field.
• This job posting will remain open a minimum of 72 hours and on an ongoing basis until filled.

Benefits

We invest in our most important resource — our people — with an industry-leading benefits package that supports physical, emotional and financial health. We all foster a culture of ownership, where each of us has a vested stake in the success of our company and one another. From robust training programs to a commitment to equal employment opportunities to all the ways we give back, our employee-owners help our clients, our industries and our communities thrive.

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