Environmental Services Intern, Summer 2027

Environmental, Biology.

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.

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.

The Environmental Services group is responsible for the full life cycle of infrastructure development, from permitting new projects, to the remediation of contaminated soil and groundwater. This opportunity is for a summer 2027 internship.

  • 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.
  • Minimum of a 2.1 strongly preferred.
  • Involvement on campus or in the community preferred.
  • Candidates must be legally authorised to work permanently (i.e., without time limitations, without restrictions or without need for work sponsorship) in the country where this position is located.
  • Performs other duties as assigned
  • Complies with all policies and standards

Qualifications

  • Pursuit of Bachelor's degree in Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, Biology or related degree from an accredited program.
  • 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 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, with an aptitude to grow and develop within the field.

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
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  • Biology/Biomedical
  • Ecology/Environmental
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