What are the responsibilities and job description for the Summer 2025 Internships – Water and Transportation (Texas/Louisiana) position at Freese and Nichols?
Freese and Nichols is excited to relaunch intern recruiting for summer 2025! After making the Top 100 Internship Program list given by Yello and WayUp we hope to make summer 2025 even better and we need YOU to do it!
What will your summer look like?
Working under professional engineers, you will be working on projects that impact your surrounding communities and beyond. While you will be working in one engineering discipline, you will have the opportunity to learn about our other technical practice areas so you can learn about where your passions may lie. Of course an internship is a large part of learning more about what you can do with your degree, but we also want to give you the opportunity to expand your network through connections with the young professionals employee resource group Rise & Thrive who will host events across the company over the summer.
What does the role look like?
This internship will require you to be in office each day to help build connections with your group, fellow interns, and others. Relocation or housing stipends will NOT be provided for internships. These internships will be provided in Transportation, Water Resource Planning, Water Resource Design, Stormwater, Water/Wastewater Master Planning, Water Transmission & Utilities, and Water/Wastewater Treatment technical practices in the below locations. Learn more about what each practice does.
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.
What will your summer look like?
Working under professional engineers, you will be working on projects that impact your surrounding communities and beyond. While you will be working in one engineering discipline, you will have the opportunity to learn about our other technical practice areas so you can learn about where your passions may lie. Of course an internship is a large part of learning more about what you can do with your degree, but we also want to give you the opportunity to expand your network through connections with the young professionals employee resource group Rise & Thrive who will host events across the company over the summer.
What does the role look like?
This internship will require you to be in office each day to help build connections with your group, fellow interns, and others. Relocation or housing stipends will NOT be provided for internships. These internships will be provided in Transportation, Water Resource Planning, Water Resource Design, Stormwater, Water/Wastewater Master Planning, Water Transmission & Utilities, and Water/Wastewater Treatment technical practices in the below locations. Learn more about what each practice does.
- Dallas/Ft Worth, TX (Dallas, Fort Worth, Frisco, and Denton)
- Houston, TX (Houston and Pearland)
- Austin, TX
- San Antonio, TX
- Lubbock, TX
- Corpus Christi, TX
- New Orleans, LA
- Civil/Environmental/Water Resource Engineering
- Biological and Agricultural/Biosystems Engineering
- Structural/Geotechnical/Geological Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering (Water Transmission & Utilities only)
- Perform specific and limited tasks within a broader assignment
- Apply standard practices and techniques in specific situations
- Assist project manager as needed
- Collect, adjust, and correlate perform calculations, and recognize discrepancies in results
- Current student pursuing a BS or MS degree in one of the majors listed above
- Graduation date of August 2025 or later
- Experience with Excel, HEC-RAS, HEC-HMS, AutoCAD, or GIS
- 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.
