Construction Management Internships

Get coffee, run errands, take the blame for your supervisor when he fricks up.

Depends on where you live and who you know.

You might get asked to do things like VIF dimensions, keep the plans up to date (post RFI/ASI to the plans), document punch list items.

You do all the bitch work that everyone hates doing

Make copies, run scans, do material takeoffs, document check-in, etc. All the tedious stuff

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How hard is it to get one and what do you do on the job?

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If you are at LSU, the department does a Construction Interview Day every semester. I got all my internships and my first job from the interview day.

Other places to look it on company websites. I recently began working for another company and while I was filling out applications I saw a few of the larger companies across the country had internship employment opportunities.

go to local contractors:

General Contractors
Mechanical Contractors
Electrical contractors

ect.

if you want Industrial then hit up industrial contractors, if you want commercial hit up commercial contractors

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How hard is it to get one

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If my dumb arse got one back in the day, anyone can get one.

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and what do you do on the job?

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Nothing too strenuous or complicating. Look at plans/specs and just watching over the laborers like a big money baw.

You get out of it what you put into it.

Some of my buddies made material runs and got lunch all summer. I told my superintendent I wanted to learn to read plans, so every afternoon we went into the field with a set of prints and he made me learn to walk myself through the structure. By far one of the most rewarding experiences I’ve had professionally and gave me a huge leg up my last year of school and on to my career.

I am in pipeline construction and my previous employer recruited hard for interns. We had engineering at our company too so the interns spent a couple of weeks in the corporate office seeing day to day office bullshite, a couple of weeks in engineering seeing what those geeks do, and then out in the field with operations seeing what really pays the bills. I usually put them with our PE’s in the field who are basically grunts for the PM’s. If the PM had the PE doing all his heavy lifting than the intern might get some tasks thrown at him but mostly they sat in a corner and took notes and went out to the field some with Foremans.

I would recommend starting off in the field. Would be more opportunties for someone who's willing to go do manual labor on a jobsite. Lots of guys in the field don't respect the white collar "interns" that have never used a shovel. Pay your dues in the field and it will make you better in the office.