• Summer Graduate Intern

    City of New York (New York, NY)


    Job Description

    FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT OUR AGENCY AND THE 2025 INTERNSHIP PROGRAM, PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE: WWW.NYC.GOV/DDC. THEN CLICK ON THE CAREERS TAB TO VIEW OUR 2025 SUMMER INTERNSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT.

     

    Our Summer Internship Program offers temporary, full-time (35 hours per week) employment from June 1, 2026, through August 7, 2026.

     

    Work Location: 30-30 Thomson Avenue, LIC, NY 11101

     

    As the City's primary capital construction project manager, DDC builds many of the civic facilities New Yorkers use every day. We provide communities with new or renovated structures such as firehouses, libraries, police precincts, courthouses, senior centers and more. We also improve vital infrastructure. Our staff delivers roadway, sewer, and water main construction projects in all five boroughs. We provide sidewalks, street reconstruction, water mains, sewers, and pedestrian ramps quality infrastructure that is essential for a healthy, resilient city.

     

    DDC’s Summer Internship Program is an opportunity for a select group of students to gain valuable experience in the architecture, engineering, design, safety, and construction management professions within a public service context. Students will gain hands-on technical experience through specific field assignments or task specific office work and a mentoring relationship with senior-level technical staff. They will also have the opportunity, through a combination of seminars, site visits, and on-the-job training, to learn about the challenges of upgrading and constructing the City’s public buildings and street infrastructure.

     

    The Infrastructure Division is committed to delivering best-in-class infrastructure projects for the City of New York, on time and on budget. A major objective of the division is the overall coordination of the different project components requested by the various sponsor agencies. This includes all aspects of a project including sewers (sanitary, storm, and/or combined), water mains (distribution and/or trunk), utility coordination, curbs, sidewalks, traffic signals, lighting, pedestrian ramps, hydrants, catch basins, trees, urban landscaping, plazas, total street reconstructions, resiliency, and flood mitigation.

     

    The Infrastructure Division is seeking three Graduate Students to support the Design Unit’s Sustainable Coordination and Program Management Unit’s Pedestrian Ramps Program, and Bid Analysis teams.

     

    The Sustainable Coordination’s Summer Graduate Intern will be assisting the team with tree inventories, creating presentation for sustainability and urban design issues, and assisting with management of green infrastructure and urban design projects.

     

    The Bid Analysis’ Summer Graduate Intern will be assisting the team in the following: updating Loaded Costs per outcome (corner, lane mile), updating FY inflation analysis, learning about Infra's bidding process and pricing, this involves propose process improvements, propose automations, and propose additional/alternative methods for analysis. Additionally, the intern will be assisting with updating bid assignment tracker, updating/proposing improvements to our PC Infra dashboards, providing backup to bid analysts, Adhoc analysis/reporting, creating SQL queries on database, and cross-training with FEP.

     

    The Pedestrian Ramps Program’s Summer Graduate Intern will be assisting the team with field visits for Mark outs/Substantial Completion Walkthroughs/Surveys, inputting completed locations into Fulcrum software, tracking and assisting with updates in Daily Construction Progress, assisting with conflict checks, tracking and assisting with updates to tracker sheets, and attending project(s) progress meetings.

     

    Authorization to work in the United States is required for this position. NYC Department of Design and Construction does not provide sponsorship for international employees for visa applications, extensions, or status changes, including STEM/OPT visas. Applicants are responsible for ensuring that they meet all qualifying requirements for this position, at the time of application.

    All applicants, including City Employees:

    Please go to NYC Government Jobs | Explore Careers | City of New York, go to Search for Open Jobs, and type in the Job ID # listed above. Submit job application as prompted. Do not apply via Employee Self-Service (ESS), e-mail, mail, or fax your resume to DDC directly. The application deadline for the Summer Internship Program is March 31, 2026.

    SUMMER GRADUATE INTERN - 10232

    Qualifications

    Candidates must be currently enrolled in a graduate degree program in an accredited college, university or law school.

     

    Additional Information

     

    The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.

     

    Salary Min: $ 17.43

     

    Salary Max: $ 22.00