Project Controls Intern, Summer 2027 - T&D Construction

Construction, Project Management, Analytics, Business.

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.

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As we consider our world today and what it can become tomorrow, the critical infrastructure needed to support and protect us becomes more vital and more complex.

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 Construction group is responsible for construction phase services in the design-build process and support for safety and health, estimating/pre-construction, field operations, quality, project management. The Project Controls team is responsible for leading the project controls process with the internal project management team to execute project deliverables on schedule and within budget. This opportunity is for a summer 2027 internship.

An Intern will work collaboratively with our teams to support a Burns & McDonnell Department, Global Practice or Regional Office. This position will provide support and assistance with requests in support of the business strategy.

  • 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

  • Pursuing a Bachelor's degree in a related field from an accredited program.
  • Applicable experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.
  • Currently enrolled, and in good standing, in a post-secondary education program in a field related to the work done in the department.
  • Minimum of a 2.1 strongly preferred.
  • Prior internship and/or related consulting experience preferred.
  • Actively involved in campus, community or other volunteer activities or organizations.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
  • Demonstrated leadership skills.
  • Candidates must be legally authorised to work in the United Kingdom on a full-time basis without requiring future sponsorship for employment visa status.

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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  • Salary
    Competitive + benefits
  • Degree required
    2:1 and above (expected)
  • Duration
    Summer
  • Location
    Birmingham, London and Glasgow
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  • Analytics/Statistics
  • Business
  • Construction/Project Management
  • Project Management
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