Company Description

Work with Us. Change the World.

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

AECOM is actively seeking a motivated Intern – Landscape Architect to join our dynamic team. This role presents a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience in Landscape Architecture and contribute to impactful projects in the region. Through comprehensive on-the-job training, interns will receive industry exposure and mentorship, immersing themselves in the world of AECOM and its operations. Working alongside experienced professionals on real projects, interns will have the opportunity to gain practical knowledge within the industry.

Below are responsibilities you'll encounter during your internship, contributing to iconic regional projects:

• Learn techniques, software, and systems necessary for project delivery, ensuring proactive problem-solving and timely task completion.
• Contribute to research tasks and maintain output quality in alignment with industry standards.
• Understand and graphically represent public realm design guidelines and sustainability requirements applicable to operating regions.
• Produce accurate representations of sites, projects, and design/detail drawings to scale.
• Assist senior staff in creating qualitative and quantitative diagrams and drawings, including benchmark and precedent studies.
• Translate ideas and concepts into graphical representations, illustrating design narratives and landscape visions.
• Develop parts of landscape designs for review and deliver Photoshop Illustrative Plans and Lumion views.
• Support report production and project management tasks under senior staff supervision, including preparation of project management plans (PMPs), drafting meeting minutes (MoMs), and assisting in presentation preparations.
• Collaborate on the production of comprehensive construction documents (CD/SD/DD) with guidance from senior staff.

Key benefits of our internship program include a potential pathway to a full-time Graduate role. AECOM evaluates interns based on performance, behaviors, and future potential for success. Exceptional interns meeting our criteria will receive a conditional offer for a full-time role and placement in our 2025 Graduate Program upon successful degree completion.

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in the 3rd year of a Landscape Architecture or Architecture Bachelor's Degree program at an accredited University
• Maintaining a GPA of 2.7 or higher.
• Available to participate in our 11-week Summer Internship Program from June to August 2024.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

As part of AECOM’s commitment to Emiratisation and in accordance with UAE labor law, only UAE Nationals with a family book will be considered for this role.

Additional Information

How to Apply:

Interested candidates are invited to submit their resume detailing their interest & experience in the role through our careers page. The deadline for applications is 4th May 2024.

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.