Intern – Wildfire Risk Mitigation
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Job Description
Company Overview
Jensen Hughes is a global leader in fire protection engineering and risk management, offering expertise in various fields, including accessibility consulting, risk and hazard analysis, process safety, forensic investigations, security risk consulting, emergency management, and digital innovation. The company values diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Job Description
Jensen Hughes is seeking a college student for an Intern position within their Wildfire Risk Mitigation team in Los Angeles, California. This internship offers exposure to a wide variety of fire/wildfire engineering and risk mitigation areas.
Responsibilities:
• Wide variety of fire/wildfire engineering design, community wildfire protection planning, wildfire risk mitigation, healthy forest & land resource management, wildfire forensics, emergency evacuation and communication planning, and disaster risk management.
• Other duties as assigned.
Requirements and Qualifications:
• Working towards a Bachelor’s degree or higher in Disaster Risk Management, Engineering, Forestry, Natural Resource Management, Urban Planning, Emergency Management, or Environmental Sciences/Engineering.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Intermediate-level written and oral communication skills to write reports, business correspondence, presentations, and procedure manuals, and to respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, and the public.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Responsible self-starter with problem-solving and reasoning skills.
• Intermediate-level personal computer skills, including electronic mail, routine database activity, word processing, spreadsheet, graphics, etc.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously.
