Location: Santee, CA
Hourly Rate: Paid Internship
Job Summary
An internship at W. M. Lyles Co. encourages students and/or recent graduates to explore the fundamentals of construction management. Interns at W. M. Lyles Co. participate as active members of a project management team, providing assistance in estimating, field engineering, and project management.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Essential duties and other responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:
- Review design documents, shop drawings and submittals for consistency with contract scope of work.
- Assist with job site logistics.
- Identify, define, and procure required craft and subcontractor services.
- Monitor project costs and identify areas for improvement.
- Document daily construction activities.
- Assist with preparation of CPM schedule.
- Implement project engineering procedures and other work controlling documents.
- Assist with preparation of proposals, change orders, RFI’s, and letters of intent as needed.
- Change order documentation and associated cost reporting and maintenance.
- Timecard review and invoice processing.
- Maintain a good working relationship with field personnel and subcontractors.
- Committed to achieving a “Zero Accident Culture” by adhering to site safety protocols and OSHA safety standards.
- Assist with compiling contract close out documents.
- Execute additional duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
Education and Experience
- Currently pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in Construction Management, Construction Engineering Management, Civil Engineering, or related field preferred.
- Strong computer skills and familiarization with software programs to include project design, job costing, scheduling, and estimating.
Skills
- Professionalism
- Ability to work in a team environment
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations
Competencies
To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:
- Effective Communication
- Collaboration
- Initiative
- Thoroughness
- Conflict Management
- Personal Integrity
Physical Requirements
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, talk, hear, taste, and smell. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, and/or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to sit. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
Office: The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Job Site: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, outside weather conditions, extreme cold, extreme heat, and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.
This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Equal Employment Opportunity
The Company is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability. If you’d like to view a copy of the company’s affirmative action plan, Equal Employment Opportunity Poster or policy statement, please email humanresources@lylessc.com. If you have a disability and you believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to submit an online application, please email humanresources@lylessc.com or call 559-441-1900. This email and phone number is created exclusively to assist disabled job seekers whose disability prevents them from being able to apply online. Only messages left for this purpose will be returned. Messages left for other purposes, such as following up on an application or technical issues not related to a disability, will not receive a response.
Notice to Staffing Agencies
The Company will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from candidates. Any unsolicited resumes sent to the Company, including via mailing address, fax machine, email, or directly to employees, will be considered the property of the Company. The Company will not pay any fee for placements resulting from unsolicited resumes. The Company will consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume to have been referred by the Agency free of any charges or fees.
Agencies must receive advance written approval from the Company’s recruiting representative before submitting resumes, and only in conjunction with a valid, fully-executed contract for service and in response to a specific job opening. The Company will not pay fees to any Agency without such an agreement in place. Agency agreements must be in writing and signed by the Human Resources Representative or their designee; no other Company employee is authorized to enter into agreements regarding candidate placements on behalf of the Company. Please send any questions or concern to humanresources@lylessc.com.
