Engineering Student Intern - CoMET

Raba Kistner, Inc. is a premier Engineering Consulting and Program Management firm. Our purpose is to build a better and more sustainable world for our employees, their families, our clients, and the communities we serve. Our Core Values are:

• Community “We care for our communities”
• Integrity “We act with integrity”
• Passion “We infuse passion into everything we do”
• Quality “We believe quality comes from a culture of innovation and continuous improvement”
• Growth “We dedicate ourselves to personal and business growth”

Raba Kistner is seeking an energetic Engineering Student Intern-CoMET, to join our infrastructure team in Austin, TX. Under close supervision, the Engineering Student Intern performs research and gathers data related to services.

• Work with clients to determine scope of work and estimated costs for both Geotechnical and Forensic engineering projects, as required.
• Perform construction observation services in the field on construction sites as needed.
• Review and prepare engineering reports from project data and field observation notes.
• Review and prepare laboratory-testing assignments for field samples.
• Dictate, detail, and photograph findings of field and lab observations.
• Conduct analyses of field data and laboratory test results supporting the preparation of report data.
• Participate in report preparation as required to satisfy client's needs.
• Assist on Geotechnical Engineering studies, Construction Materials Testing projects, and Facilities projects, as required. 
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• College or university Junior, Senior, or Graduate Student in good academic standing in Civil Engineering, or a closely related field. Intermediate to Advance Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook). 
• Possess a current valid state issued driver’s license and meet company's auto insurability requirements. 

Ability to multitask and possess excellent communication, organizational, and judgment skills. Ability to read and understand instructions, labels, reports, etc. Ability to effectively communicate information both written and oral and respond to questions in person-to-person and small group situations with customers, clients, general public and other employees of the organization. Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Must be able to work in a team environment, as well as independently at a job site.

The following physical activities described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions and expectations. 

While performing the functions of this job, the employee is regularly stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, and talk or hear; frequently use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms; occasionally drive a vehicle short and/or long distance and lift and/or move up to 50 pounds with or without assistance. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, far vision, color vision, peripheral vision, focus vision, depth vision. Noise level for the work environment is moderate to loud.

May occasionally work near moving mechanical parts and vibration; may frequently work in outdoor weather conditions. The noise level is moderate (business office with computers/printers, light traffic, etc.)

EOE/Disabled/Veteran
Drug Free Workplace