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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 AND INFORMATION REGARDING OUR DDC FEBRUARY HIRING FAIR.
Our Summer Internship Program offers temporary, full-time (35 hours per week) employment from June 2, 2025, through August 8, 2025.
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 Public Buildings (PB) division collaborates with 28 City agencies, architects, and consultants to upgrade, rehabilitate, renovate, and build new public facilities, from the ground-up that New Yorkers use every day. The division includes the Civic and Uniform Structures units (Police, Fire, DCAS, Courts, DEP, Sanitation, Transportation, Tanks, Health, Parks, Human Services UPK, ACS, Libraries, and Cultural Institutions), as well as an in-house Architecture and Engineering team which provides a variety of technical services in support of DDC's portfolio. The PB units are divided to mirror the needs of the City agencies that rely on DDC to execute construction throughout the five boroughs of the city.
The Summer Intern will assist with tasks to support the Public Buildings' project teams. Tasks will include, but are not limited to, the following: reviewing architectural /engineering drawings and blueprints, assisting with change orders, Job Site walkthrough, basic project estimating, scheduling, documentation, determining when a project has attained substantial completion; and documenting site visits/ conditions, investigations and follow-up. Tasks also include attending bi--weekly meetings, assisting in the preparation of reports, memo, transmittals, project tracking tools, and follow-up on outstanding payments, and working with project tracking systems.
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, 2025.
SUMMER COLLEGE INTERN - 10234
Qualifications
As of June of the Program year the prospective interne must be a student matriculated in a college or be a recent college graduate (winter/spring term of the Program year).
NOTE: Appointment to this title is only valid for the duration of the Program, June - August each year.
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.
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 AND INFORMATION REGARDING OUR DDC FEBRUARY HIRING FAIR.
Our Summer Internship Program offers temporary, full-time (35 hours per week) employment from June 2, 2025, through August 8, 2025.
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 Public Buildings (PB) division collaborates with 28 City agencies, architects, and consultants to upgrade, rehabilitate, renovate, and build new public facilities, from the ground-up that New Yorkers use every day. The division includes the Civic and Uniform Structures units (Police, Fire, DCAS, Courts, DEP, Sanitation, Transportation, Tanks, Health, Parks, Human Services UPK, ACS, Libraries, and Cultural Institutions), as well as an in-house Architecture and Engineering team which provides a variety of technical services in support of DDC's portfolio. The PB units are divided to mirror the needs of the City agencies that rely on DDC to execute construction throughout the five boroughs of the city.
The Summer Intern will assist with tasks to support the Public Buildings' project teams. Tasks will include, but are not limited to, the following: reviewing architectural /engineering drawings and blueprints, assisting with change orders, Job Site walkthrough, basic project estimating, scheduling, documentation, determining when a project has attained substantial completion; and documenting site visits/ conditions, investigations and follow-up. Tasks also include attending bi--weekly meetings, assisting in the preparation of reports, memo, transmittals, project tracking tools, and follow-up on outstanding payments, and working with project tracking systems.
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, 2025.
SUMMER COLLEGE INTERN - 10234
Qualifications
As of June of the Program year the prospective interne must be a student matriculated in a college or be a recent college graduate (winter/spring term of the Program year).
NOTE: Appointment to this title is only valid for the duration of the Program, June - August each year.
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.
