Application Instructions
SPS New England, Inc., one of the leading heavy highway contractors in New England, is seeking a highly motivated individual to perform duties on Bridge and Highway construction projects.
Since 1984, SPS has been helping to rebuild New England's infrastructure. Wherever you drive throughout Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire, there's a good chance you will travel down a road or over a bridge built by SPS New England.
Position Description
SPS is seeking Part-time and Full-time Civil Engineering and/or Construction Management students for our Coop/ Internship program.
Candidates should have a positive attitude, a strong work ethic, good communication skills and excellent computer skills. We are looking for Civil engineer and Construction students who are self motivated and anxious to start or advance their career in construction management.
Heavy construction experience is preferred but not essential. Those who enjoy a fast-paced environment and the outdoors will love this work.
As an SPS intern you may:
-sit in on meetings
-help with RFI's and submittals
-count trucks/supplies
-take measurements
-make runs to the shop or Home Depot
-track supplies/things in excel
-make phone calls to Subcontractors
-have down time where they will want you to look over plans
-help with do whatever your Assistant Project Manager or Assistant super needs help with out in the field.
Salary/Pay Range: $22-$24/hr Dependent upon experience
Position Requirements
Requirements: You should be very proficient in Excel, be able to somewhat understand a set of plans or a plan layout, and you need to be willing to ask questions and ask for work if your managers are busy or you are finished with your last task. Take initiative! Experience with concrete forming systems, AutoCAD, Bluebeam, Procore, or Heavy Bid is preferred but not required.
Position requires travel to engineering job sites in New England (no overnight travel).
Equal Opportunity Employer
It is the policy of SPS New England, Inc. to assure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, color, national origin, age or disability. Such action shall include: employment, upgrading, demotion, or transfer; recruitment or recruitment advertising; layoff or termination; rates of pay or other forms of compensation; and selection for training, including apprenticeship, pre-apprenticeship, and/or on-the-job training. It is also the policy of SPS New England, Inc. to take affirmative action to employ and to advance in employment, all persons regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, or any other applicable legally protected status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, recruitment advertising, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay, fringe benefits or other forms of compensation, and selection for training, including apprenticeship, pre-apprenticeship, on the job training, classification, and referral, at all levels of employment. Consistent with these obligations, SPS New England, Inc. also provides reasonable accommodations to employees and applicants with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs, observances, and practices.
Employees and applicants of SPS New England, Inc. will not be subject to harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status or any other applicable legally protected status. Additionally, retaliation, including intimidation, threats, or coercion, because an employee or applicant has objected to discrimination, engaged or may engage in filing a complaint, assisted in a review, investigation, or hearing or have otherwise sought to obtain their legal rights under any Federal, State, or local EEO law is prohibited.
SPS New England, Inc. is seeking minority and female employees, and all employees are encouraged to recruit minority and females as well.
