What are the responsibilities and job description for the Landscape Architect Intern position at Trilon Group?
Description
Alta Planning Design seeks a Landscape Architect Intern for our dynamic, creative team in Salt Lake City . 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 Planning Design is a sustainable transportation company dedicated to creating active, healthy communities through planning, landscape architecture, engineering, and education / encouragement programs. Alta was founded in 1996 when 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 gets 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 26 years with over 200 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 a co-op 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 urban planning, landscape architecture, or transportation engineering, a passion for active transportation, and the ability to collaborate across discipline boundaries are required to successfully meet the requirements of this position.
The essential priorities of this position are to :
Participate in team meetings and trainings.
Day to Day
Technical Responsibilities
Required Software Skills :
AutoCAD; Civil 3D; Adobe CS; SketchUp; Google Earth; MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint, or similar products.
What We Offer
What We Offer
Compensation
Benefits
Infrastructure is the backbone of the communities where we live, work, and play. Done well, infrastructure changes lives for the better – promoting opportunity, equity, sustainability, and safety.
Trilon is bringing together a family of the nation’s best infrastructure consulting firms. We invest in talent, technology, and targeted M&A to ensure we are the firm of choice for our clients and our people to deliver sustainable infrastructure solutions.
Trilon helps our communities plan, design, and deliver critical infrastructure more quickly, affordably, and impactfully.
Salary : $24 - $26
