Engineering Intern

Job Description

Goodwyn Mills Cawood, LLC (GMC) is one of the largest, privately-held architecture and engineering firms in the Southeast, recently recognized by ENR as Southeast’s Design Firm of the Year for 2024. With 27 offices located throughout Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee, GMC offers a vast landscape of opportunities.

Position: Engineering Intern

Location: Birmingham, AL

GMC has an opening for an Engineering Intern to support ongoing projects in the Birmingham, AL office. This internship is designed to provide students with practical experience and development opportunities, allowing them to prepare reports, site plans, permit documents, construction schedules, and work on a variety of projects and assignments. Managers and colleagues will provide assistance to ensure the intern’s continuous development and learning process.

Essential Functions And Responsibilities Include:

• Ability to apply technical skills to routine projects with minimal supervision.
• Can direct technicians for the production of engineering documents for routine projects accurately and efficiently.
• Executes cross-discipline checks and coordination.
• Reviews complete project documents for conformity and quality assurance.
• Recognizes and reports risk management issues to the Project Engineer as appropriate.
• Assist in learning the needs of assigned clients.
• Understand the profession’s ethical obligation to Client and the public welfare.
• Assist with reviewing and defining scope of work issues with Consultants and Contractors.
• Work across disciplines and office locations to fully utilize firm experiential knowledge. Assist others with technical mentoring.
• Recognize the role as a team player.
• Represent the firm in all aspects of projects and assignments to prospective employees, clients, and the communities we serve.
• Ability to respond to common inquiries from Clients or regulatory agencies.
• Prepare reports and technical memorandums with oversight and supervision by the Engineer-of-Record.
• Ability to effectively present information in oral and written format.
• May direct or coordinate the work of technicians and others who assist in specific assignments.
• Continually participate in Individual Development planning and programs.
• Provides input to improving project delivery processes and standards.
• Contributes to Client Services team.
• Actively participate in local professional society.
• Participate in community service activities and understand implications of involvement.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering from an ABET accredited university.
• Working knowledge of AutoCAD software. Experience with Civil3D is preferred.
• A/E or EPC experience a plus.
• Foundations of Engineering Certificate (EIT) a plus.

Travel Requirements:

This position requires work to be performed both in an office environment (80%) and in the field (20%). Work done in the field may consist of exposure to various types of weather and temperatures. Engineers may also be exposed to pollutants, chemicals, insects, and possibly water-borne pathogens. Employees are required to wear appropriate protective clothing and gear when performing fieldwork.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veterans

About GMC:

At GMC, we are driven by a belief in community, collaboration, and using creativity and hard work to make a difference. We take immense pride in serving our communities through transformative work, whether it involves designing schools, parks, hospitals, and other commercial developments, or providing clean water, safe streets, and restoring resilient environments. Every project is guided by the foundational concept that communities are built by people, not companies. We strive to serve our communities with quality, integrity, creativity, and care.

As one of the Southeast’s most comprehensive multi-disciplined firms, GMC is equipped to provide a full range of services, including architecture, interior design, civil engineering, environmental services, landscape architecture, planning, transportation engineering, geotechnical engineering, electrical engineering, surveying, and disaster recovery.