Traffic Safety Engineering Intern
Ames - 50010 - Story County, IAInternship$19.76/hrPosted 2 days agoStill listed 1 day ago
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Job overview
This intern position is with the Iowa Department of Transportation’s Traffic Operations & Safety Bureau, in the Safety Engineering & Planning Section. The selected individual will work on traffic safety engineering projects, which may include developing or reviewing construction plans for safety countermeasures and work zone improvements. Other work may include traffic safety data analysis, project meetings and field reviews, white papers, GIS integration, and presentations.
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Full job description
This Intern position is with the Traffic Operations & Safety Bureau within the Safety Engineering & Planning Section. The individual selected will work on traffic safety engineering projects, which may include developing construction plans for safety countermeasure projects or reviewing construction plans for work zone improvements. Additional tasks may include: mining crash and roadway databases, conducting traffic safety data analysis, attending project meetings, participating in project field reviews, and drafting associated white papers. Other tasks may include GIS integration work or presentation preparation as needed. Possible work tasks:
- Investigate existing highway conditions
- Review/develop project plans
- Compiling analysis details from existing databases
- Query/review video footage of traffic events
- Perform traffic analysis
- Conduct safety feature review
- Using ArcGIS to map safety features
- Working with the GIS team to document and maintain records
Preferred background:
- Interest in working with ArcGIS, Microsoft Office, Oracle Spatial Database, and/or Microstation
- Interest in learning safety engineering, utility engineering, spatial data processing, thematic mapping, and database management
- Good communication and organizational skills
Ability to work independently as well as on a teamRequirements: Completion of at least two years in chemical, civil, construction, environmental, materials, mechanics, structural, or transportation engineering, or in an engineering management curriculum at an accredited four-year college or university with eligibility for junior status upon return to school.
How this job compares
Set against the 2,145 open Engineering Intern jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$19.76/hr
- US median$23–30/hr1,124 hourly ranges
This rate, $19.76/hr, is 25% below the US median midpoint ($27/hr) — in the lowest quarter of Engineering Intern hourly ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 27 open Engineering Intern jobs in Iowa and 2,145 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Iowa
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- Experience
- Engineering Intern postings that state a minimum ask for 0 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 0 to 1 year (36 postings).
- Education
- 720 of the 2,145 open Engineering Intern jobs (34%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 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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