ACE Mentorship Intern

Stantec Buildings is on a mission to become the world’s leading integrated design practice. Our architects, engineers, interior designers, sustainability specialists, and technologists are passionate about the power of design. We take an innovative, collaborative approach to projects, sharing a common belief that sustainable design for the built environment can make the world a better place for future generations. Join us and design your place with Stantec.

Your Opportunity

Join a Top 10 global design firm in our Chicago buildings practice that provides Architecture, Buildings Engineering, and Interior Design services with a 50+ year history and deep commitment to multiple sectors, including hospitality, workplace, civic, retail, healthcare, higher education.

Our practice is renowned for creating high-performance and award-winning buildings and interiors. We’re passionate about the design quality of the built environment and create designs that are timeless, intelligent, and sustainable. This is the place where great ideas and rewarding careers call home. In our multidisciplinary, team-based environment, collaboration is key among a talented group of architects, engineers, interior designers, and project managers, who work together to create innovative and integrated solutions for a wide range of clients.

We are seeking passionate interns who possess excellent design, graphics, organizational and communication skills, which will enable them to interact within a multidisciplinary team of architectural/engineering/interior design professionals. Successful interns will possess the creativity, curiosity, motivation, and skills necessary to create conceptual models and advance design ideas with a team. The internship will be held over the summer and will span 6–8 weeks.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Assist in the design process, 3D development, selecting and ordering finishes, aid in organizing and preparing for meetings, incorporating designs into Revit, and help produce presentation materials.
• Conduct basic interpretations of sketches, drawings, codes, program, and other similar material.
• Support project team in development of interior design documentation and presentation materials.
• Assist in the development of a design through sketches, physical models, electronic models, diagrams, massing studies, and other visual formats to continue to project space planning, lighting, material selection, and furniture design.
• Utilize BIM technologies in development of three-dimensional models of interiors and their components to develop construction documents.
• Assist in research of concepts, benchmarks, materials, typology, and precedents.

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Experience preferred in Revit.
• Experience preferred in Sketch-Up, Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop, PowerPoint, and InDesign.
• Education and Experience
• Must be a high school student participating in the ACE Mentor Chicago program. 
• Applicants must be 18 years of age or older at the date of hire. 

Typical office environment working with computers and remaining sedentary for long periods of time. Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather.

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.

Pay Range: 

• $16.60 - $18.00