Intern – Landscape Architect

Intern – Landscape Architect

Company Description

At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team – 47,000 strong – driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.

We will give you the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities. We believe in leadership at all levels. No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business.

We offer competitive pay and benefits, well-being programs to support you and your family, and the development resources you need to advance your career.

When you join us, you will connect and collaborate with a global network of experts – planners, designers, engineers, scientists, consultants, program and construction managers – leading the change toward a more sustainable and equitable future. Join us and let’s get started.

Job Description

Summer Intern Program 2023

Make Amazing Happen!

Whether you’ve recently finished your college education and trying to find that “perfect fit” or about to complete your university degree and want to get a taste of the real world, AECOM has a wide variety of Internship opportunities available.

Responsibilities & Duties

• Learns techniques, softwares and systems required to deliver projects. Learns to understand clear solutions for delivery, be proactive and complete task assigned in allocated timeframe.
• Contributes to research-based tasks and ensures the quality of the output are aligned with the applied standards.
• Collects, comprehends and represents graphically the public realm design guidelines and sustainability requirements (related to the public realm) in the operating regions.
• Properly represents sites, projects, design/detail drawings to correct scales.
• Under the supervision of senior staff, prepares a qualitative and quantitative set of diagrams and drawings covering benchmark and precedent studies. Provides support in research and development of key ideas, case studies, etc.
• Represents ideas and concepts graphically and able to develop the graphical representation of a design narrative or a landscape vision.
• Produces parts of a landscape design for review.
• Delivers Photoshop Illustrative Plans and Lumion views.
• Under supervision and guidance, contributes to report production and assist the PM in project management tasks such as preparation of PMPs, drafting MoMs and assisting in presentation preparations.
• Works and delivers a full CD/ SD/ DD set of documents with help from senior staff members.
• Contributes to maintaining office physical and digital library of submitted projects, landscape architecture books, planting palettes, etc.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Master’s Degree in Landscape Architecture or Architecture with exposure to Landscape related courses from an accredited University
• Must have graduated within the last 12 months or graduating no later than June 2023
• Successful applicants must have a minimum 3.4 GPA or 2:1 (or equivalent) and above
• Candidates must be currently based in the UAE
• If you hold a Master’s Degree, you must have started it within 12 months of completing the Bachelor’s Degree in order to have continuous education

Additional Information

The Intern Program will run from 26 June – 29 Sept 2023 and is your opportunity to land a permanent position with AECOM. If your performance has been successful, based on a mid-program review, you will be offered a full-time role as a young professional in your field as part of our highly competitive Graduate Program starting in November 2023.

This opportunity has 1 role based in the Dubai office and 1 based in the Abu Dhabi office, please specify your preferred location as we will submit your application to the relevant team accordingly.

With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there’s never been a better time to be at AECOM! Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

Join us and let’s get started.

ReqID: J10082126

Business Line: U&P

Business Group: DCS

Strategic Business Unit: ME and Africa

Career Area: Design