What are the responsibilities and job description for the Summer 2025 Internship - Transportation Planning/Urban Planning position at Freese and Nichols?
- Freese and Nichols has a great opportunity for a Transportation Planning/Urban Planning Intern in our Dallas, TX office for Summer of 2025. Freese and Nichols is an award-winning, professional consulting firm with an outstanding reputation and culture. We serve municipalities, counties, and agencies across Texas and the southeastern United States.
Working closely with planners and engineers, the intern will coordinate with other disciplines to complete tasks, contribute to complex projects, and support recommendations and public decision making.
Relocation and housing are NOT provided for this internship.
Responsibilities
- Work in a collaborative environment as part of a multi-discipline team
- Learn and apply knowledge, data and analysis contributing to transportation planning studies such as: multimodal network planning, smart mobility, alternatives and feasibility analyses, policy development, transportation infrastructure funding and implementation, and general traffic operations
- Manage personal timeliness and technical correctness of a project to ensure high-quality work that fits within a client’s budget and expectations
- Current student pursuing a BS or MS degree in Transportation Planning, Urban Planning, or related degree
- Graduation date of August 2025 or later
- Basic experience using thematic mapping/spatial analysis with GIS and social media
- Student organizational involvement
About Freese And Nichols
At the heart of our culture is our LEADS values (Learn continuously, Engage as family, Act with integrity, Deliver quality, and Serve always). Each year, our employee engagement survey confirms that our leaders and our employees live our values.
We strive to be the firm of choice for clients and employees through innovative approaches, practical results, and outstanding service. For more than 130 years, we have been planning and designing the infrastructure our communities need: developing water supplies, designing roadways and bridges, preparing for natural disasters, and much more.
Besides our comprehensive benefits package (see more at https://www.freese.com/services/benefits-that-work/), we offer paid overtime for salaried employees, an annual bonus, and access to company cabins in Red River, New Mexico. We are proud of our flexible work environment which includes a hybrid schedule with up to 40% of remote work, and an alternative work schedule program which provides a day off every other Friday.
Join our team of 1,200 employees as we grow from Virginia to Colorado. Learn more about working here at https://www.freese.com/careers/.
Freese and Nichols is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and prohibits employment discrimination for employees and applicants based on his or her age, race, color, pregnancy, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, marital status, citizenship, or because he or she is an individual with a disability, protected veteran or other status protected by federal, state, and local laws.
We recognize that our workforce reflects the increasingly diverse nature of our society, and we strive to take advantage of that diversity with both our external and internal customers. As a Federal Contractor, Freese and Nichols is an equal employment, affirmative action employer.
