HBG Constructors offers paid internships to civil engineering students
from across the United States. It’s a great way for sophomores or
juniors interested in heavy structures to get field experience during
school. Better yet, most colleges and universities recognize
internships for college credit. You can do an internship through any
school we visit, so check out those schools on this Web Site by clicking
on here, or talk to your career counselor.
Selected students may be eligible for payment of travel and living
expenses if their assigned job is out of town. You can take advantage
of this great opportunity during the fall or winter semester, or during
the summer. You’ll put in 40 hours of work per week. Please make
inquiries at least three months in advance of the time you wish to be an
intern.
Typically, if you are successful as an intern, HBG Constructors will
offer you a job with our company. That’s what happened with Christine
Hutton, who started with us as an intern out of Colorado State
University in 1990. She had attended college on an athletic
scholarship, and had just earned a degree in Construction Management.
“I started out as a laborer,” Christine recalls of her internship on
several bridge projects in Denver. “I gained great respect for my
coworkers and how they handled the physical demands they faced,
especially in the winter. We’d start working in dark , work all day in
the cold, and stop after dark.”
A highly motivated worker, Christine sometimes left the job site to
work on bid closings in the office in the evenings. She specialized in
subcontract quote management. Working in both the office and field were
invaluable experiences for Christine, who is now a full-time estimator
at corporate headquarters in Longmont, Colorado. She says, “You need to
start anything at the bottom. That was true of my sports career as well
as my professional one. First you earn respect and get to know people.
Working in the field, I learned so much that helps me now with
estimating.”
If you think you’d like to be an intern, contact Glenn Shuster:
gshuster@hbgconstructor.com.
He’d be happy to discuss the possibilities
of your joining our team at HBG Constructors.
