Civil Engineering Intern | Summer 2027

Location: Orlando, Florida, United States Department: Civil

DLR Group is an integrated design firm with a promise to elevate the human experience through design. This fuels the work we do around the world and inspires our mission to improve the lives of our clients, our communities, and our planet. If this sparks your interest, you’re in the right place.

DLR Group’s Orlando studio has an opening for a Civil Engineering Summer Intern.

We have multiple positions and locations available; please refer to all openings posted and apply to the locations that are most suitable for your living situation during the course of your internship. This is not a remote position.

About EPX at DLR Group

As an intern at DLR Group, you’ll be part of our Emerging Professional Experience (EPX) Program, designed to give you a meaningful introduction to life within an integrated design firm and a strong foundation for your career in the AEC industry.

Each person at DLR Group has a design voice, and EPX gives you opportunities to develop and share yours. Through hands-on project work, mentorship, and learning experiences, you’ll gain exposure to the people, disciplines, and ideas that shape the built environment. You may participate in design discussions, project meetings, site visits, business development efforts, office activities, and other experiences that broaden your understanding of the design profession.

The program combines three core components: mentorship, project work, and weekly learning sessions. Topics may include design culture, sustainability, design technology, communication, marketing and business development, project and resource management, research, equity, career development, and more. Along the way, you’ll hear from leaders and integrated designers across DLR Group and build connections with fellow emerging professionals.

Position Summary

As a Civil Engineering Intern at DLR Group, you will be an important part of our integrated design team, contributing to the design process of civil building systems from schematics through construction administration, for buildings of various types, sizes, and complexities. Working alongside electrical engineers and professionals across architecture, engineering, interiors, and other disciplines, you will gain hands-on experience with the design process from early concepts and system development through documentation and construction administration.

Our Summer Internship Program is a paid, full-time opportunity running May 18 through August 6, 2027, and interns are expected to participate for the duration of the program. This is an opportunity to apply what you’ve learned in the classroom, build your technical and professional skills, and contribute your perspective to design solutions that support our brand promise of Elevating the Human Experience through design.

What you will do

Collaborate with architects and engineers as part of our integrated design process

Learn the tools, technology and workflow involved with BIM and how today’s designers deliver successful projects, including creating and coordinating documents using Autodesk’s Civil 3D software

Accompany team members on site visits to project sites to see the real-world results of what you do

Assist in developing concepts, calculations, modeling, drawing review, and project execution

2D Drafting and 3D Modeling using Autodesk Revit Software

Help write and review civil-related specifications

Assist team with civil engineering calculations and code research

Required Qualifications

Completed at least one year at an ABET-accredited Civil Engineering program

Experience with drafting programs such as Revit

Excellent communication, technology, and organizational skills

Good multitasking skills to easily switch between projects while keeping track of tasks

Ability to work individually as well as in a team environment

A desire to learn about the architecture/engineering design process

Preferred Qualifications

Goal oriented with strong skills in problem solving, creativity, and attention to detail

Experience and interest in sustainable building design

Goal oriented with strong skills in problem solving creativity and attention to detail

Experience and interest in sustainable and low-impact site and landscape design

An appreciation and understanding of landscape engineering and architectural systems and design and how architects work and think

A third-year student in an accredited engineering program

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of a school/employment or any other visa, regardless of expiration date, now or in the future.

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DLR Group is an integrated design firm delivering architecture, engineering, interiors, planning, and building optimization for new builds, renovations, and adaptive reuse projects.

We are 100% employee-owned: every employee is literally invested in our clients’ success. At the core of our firm are interdisciplinary teams engaged in every step of project lifecycles. Our teams champion true collaboration, open information sharing, shared risk and reward, value-based decision making, and proficient use of technology to deliver exceptional design. We are pursuing the goals of the 2030 Challenge, the ME2040, and the SE2050, and are an initial signatory of the China Accord and the AIA 2030 Commitment.

Through our values – commitment, creativity, environmental stewardship, fun, integrity, ownership, sharing, teamwork – we elevate the human experience through design, together.

DLR Group follows a four-day in-office work model, with employees having the flexibility to work somewhere other than the office on Fridays.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/M/F/Veteran/Disabled employer.