What are the responsibilities and job description for the Transportation Engineering Intern position at Alta Planning + Design?
Job Description
Job Description
Description
Alta Planning Design is seeking an Engineering Intern to join our dynamic, creative team between May-August 2025 in Los Angeles . This position is a great opportunity for someone who believes in the importance of creative, active, and sustainable projects and who is interested in growing their career as an active community professional. If you are looking to join an innovative organization and do work that connects people to places while advancing social justice, safety, and environmental resilience, apply with Alta today!
About Alta
Alta is an active transportation company dedicated to creating active, healthy communities through planning, landscape architecture, engineering, and education / encouragement programs. Alta was founded in 1996 when cities and communities were calling for safer streets for people walking and bicycling as the non-motorized transportation movement developed into a profession in the United States. We pioneered the field of active transportation, evolving our planning and design work into a visionary global practice that empowers people to live active, healthy lives and getting them to where they need to go.
Our core values and work bring about positive change by creating places that are geared toward moving people rather than cars, connecting community members to daily needs and human experience, and empowering every person to live an active healthy life. As a global leader in mobility innovation for over 27 years with over 200 people on staff, we are dedicated to connecting people to places by working across disciplines and scale to address social justice, safety, and environmental resilience.
Summary Overview
This is a temporary, full-time (30 hours a week), entry-level, opportunity to jumpstart your career and gain hands-on experience in the active transportation world. With an internship at Alta, you’ll be exposed to a variety of projects, learn about consulting, and collaborate across disciplines and geographies with passionate engineers, landscape architects, urban planners, graphic designers, and civic data analysts. You’ll be able to have an impact on communities and how people get around.
The internship program is more than just a job - we want you to focus on learning about our world, everything from proposals to project retrospectives. We aim to prepare you for your career in active transportation, even if it’s not at Alta; the world needs more passionate people making real-world changes, and we’re here to help you take that next step.
When you join our program, you’ll :
- Be paired with a supervisor who will provide mentorship and hands-on training in your area of study.
- Attend Alta University sessions (in-house training sessions on service areas, project management, DE&I training, and business fundamentals)
- Help produce deliverables on some of Alta’s ongoing and most exciting projects.
Position Priorities
A general understanding of the field of transportation engineering, a passion for active transportation, and the ability to collaborate across discipline boundaries are required in order to successfully meet the requirements of this position.
The essential priorities of this position are to :
Responsibilities :
Requirements
What We Offer
Compensation
The pay for this internship is $24 / hour for those in bachelor's programs, $26 / hour for those in master's programs.
Culture
Alta offers a flexible, hybrid work schedule where most employees work from home two or three days per week. In-office days support our collaborative culture, one of our core values.
The office is located in downtown Los Angeles (DTLA) right across from the 7th Street / Metro Center Station. We are about a 1.8-mile (14-minute) bike ride to Union Station, which is also accessible by the underground light rail system from the 7th Street / Metro Center. Pershing Square is within walking distance of the office, as are Whole Foods and plenty of nearby shops at the Bloc and FIGat7th shopping plazas.
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Salary : $24 - $26
