Environmental Engineer Intern

Position Title: Environmental Engineer Intern Department: Engineering Salary Grade: n/a, Non Bargaining Reports to: City Engineer FLSA: Non-Exempt Date: April 2025 Position Summary: The Environmental Engineer Intern will play an active role in supporting the City Engineer and Staff Engineers with a variety of technical, administrative, and environmentally focused tasks. This position is designed to provide meaningful exposure to municipal engineering practices, green infrastructure initiatives, brownfield redevelopment, and water quality management. The intern will contribute to projects aimed at promoting compliance with sound engineering and environmental standards. Working alongside both engineering staff and field inspection crews, the intern will gain hands-on experience, technical training, professional mentoring, and the opportunity to work within a collaborative and environmentally conscious team. (Full-time position during summer and semester breaks; part-time during the school year.) Duties and Responsibilities: • Scan and record documents using various digital storage programs. • Advise and answers technical questions. • Assists in field investigations of infrastructure replacement issues. • Assists in Storm Water Pollution Prevention (SWPPP) inspections and documentation of the SWPPP program requirements. • Assists in maintenance of detention basins, green infrastructure, and wetland facilities owned by the City of Lorain. • Assists in the treatment and maintenance of City facilities, ditches, or properties for invasive and nuisance vegetation. • Performs simple to routine inspections comprised of: storm water, sanitary connections, aprons, and sidewalks. • Assists with creating plans/estimates for department projects, such as street paving projects, storm and sanitary sewer projects, water distribution systems, and related projects. • Assist with construction administration duties, including but not limited to: reviewing quantities, RFI’s, and Punchlist items. • Reviews grading, drainage, and paving projects. • Prepares routine correspondence, provides information, receives complaints, and works directly with the public. • Interviews callers and screens calls; receives complaints and requests for information, routes requests to staff to address. • File office correspondence and records. • Operates office machines such as, but not limited to, computers, calculators, copiers, large format scanners. • Other duties as assigned that contribute to the city’s sustainability and environmental goals. Necessary Competencies and Personal Qualities: • Responsible / makes sound technical decisions • Logical / good problem solver • Attention to detail and accuracy • Excels at communication both written and verbal Page 2 of 2 Aprim 2025 • Provides excellent customer service Knowledge, Skill and Ability: • Software: Microsoft Office Suite (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook). • Develop and maintain effective working relationships throughout the City. • Ability to work independently or in a group setting. • Ability to prioritize, coordinate and organizing multiple projects. Education, Licenses and Experience: • Education: College enrollment with major work in civil/environmental engineering/environmental science or related field. Preferred junior/senior or graduate level student. • Professional Certifications and Licenses: A current, valid State of Ohio’s driver’s license and a driving record that is acceptable to the City’s risk managers and insurers. Physical Demands: The physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Physical aspects may include, but are not limited to, adjusting, carrying, climbing, connecting, crouching, crawling, kneeling, lifting, pulling, reaching and stooping. Must be able to walk long distances and work outdoors in all types of weather. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. Vision demands include close, relatively detailed vision, with the ability to adjust focus when performing inspections. Employee may sit for periods of time when performing administrative work. The employee is frequently required to stand and walk for extended periods of time, use hands to hold and control equipment; reach with hands and arms. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job. The City of Lorain is an Equal Opportunity Employer.