
Construction Internship Summer 2027
McLean, VAInternship / Full-time$20–28/hrSeen 2 days agoSeen in employer's feed 2 days ago
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Hoar is recruiting students pursuing civil engineering, construction engineering, or building/construction sciences for its Summer 2027 internship program. Interns gain exposure to estimating, project management, and field work while supporting quantity estimating, submittals, project documentation, and jobsite setup. Applicants must be enrolled full-time in an accredited college or university, have completed freshman year, maintain a 2.5 GPA, and be able to work 40 hours per week during the spring semester.
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Full job description
Hoar is recruiting qualified applicants for our Internship Program who are studying civil engineering, construction engineering or building/construction sciences for the Summer 2027 term. This position typically gains exposure to estimating, project management, and the field.
Duties include:
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Gaining an understanding of the construction process
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Participating in quantity takeoff/quantity estimating
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Working with the submittal process: maintaining appropriate logs, reviewing and approving shop drawings and submittals
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Preparing transmittals for distribution for project documentation
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Assisting in jobsite setup, permitting, and closeout
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Candidates should possess computer skills including working with spreadsheets, good communication skills, and a willingness to handle responsibility.
Requirements:
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Must be currently enrolled as a full-time student in an accredited college or university pursuing a four year or advanced degree in Construction Engineering, Civil Engineering, or Building Science
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Must maintain a 2.5 or higher cumulative GPA
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Must be able to work 40 hours per week during the spring semester
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Completed college freshman year
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Desire to pursue a career in the construction industry upon graduation
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Strong written and verbal communication skills
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Valid Driver's License
Physical Demands and Working Environment:
The conditions herein are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions.
Environment: Work is performed mainly in an indoor and outdoor setting with exposure to all types of weather and temperature conditions, and travel from site to site.
Physical: Primary functions require sufficient physical ability and mobility to work in an office setting; to stand or sit for prolonged periods of time; to occasionally stoop, bend, kneel, crouch, reach, and twist; to lift, carry, push, and/or pull light to moderate amounts of weight; to operate equipment requiring repetitive hand movement and fine coordination; to travel to other locations using various modes of private and commercial transportation; and to verbally communicate to exchange information.
Vision: See in the normal visual range with or without correction.
Hearing: Hear in the normal audio range with or without correction.
EOE - Vets/Disabilities
Hoar does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms or agencies. Any resume submitted to any employee of Hoar without a prior written search agreement will be considered unsolicited and the property of Hoar.
Hoar offers a total compensation package that includes base salary, bonus potential, and a comprehensive benefits package including health/dental/vision benefits, paid time off, and retirement/401(k). For this role the base hourly range is $20-28 an hour. Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location. Base pay is one part of the Total Compensation Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work.
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How this job compares
Set against the 15,397 open Project Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$20–28/hr
- Virginia median$25–30/hr27 hourly ranges
- US median$27–36/hr796 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $24/hr, is 20% below the Virginia median midpoint ($30/hr) — in the lowest quarter of Project Management hourly ranges in Virginia.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 705 open Project Management jobs in Virginia and 15,397 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Virginia
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- Experience
- Project Management postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 4 to 8 years (12,345 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 6,462 of the 15,397 open Project Management jobs (42%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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