Summer Intern, Architecture

Description

About the Internship

The Engineering Department’s vision is to be the stewards of the agency’s infrastructure of today and to design and build the agency’s future.  As part of a multidisciplinary Design Division, the Architecture Unit provides a broad range of design services built around a practice of design excellence, sustainability, resilience, and accessibility. As an Architectural Intern, you will interface with other architects, landscape architects, graphic designers, and/or model makers to support the Port Authority's core transportation and infrastructure programs. You will learn to balance critical program requirements, such as schedule, budget, life safety, and spatial requirements, with the appropriate architectural response to achieve quality public environments for our facility customers, employees, and/or tenants. Interns work on some of our most exciting projects and have had their designs built to serve the public.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the design of a portion an Architectural scope of work.
• Produce design services (research, drawings, models, renderings) of high quality that conform to design standards and guidelines, for example, Engineering’s Quality Assurance/Quality Control Guidelines and CAD/BIM Standards for drawings. 
• Report progress to a Task Leader/Lead Architect and Management staff as requested. 
• Participate in summer intern specific events and Architecture Unit staff meetings.

Minimum Qualifications

• Enrollment at a college/university through Summer 2025 and into the Fall 2025 semester
• Rising senior, 5th year bachelor's, or graduate-level student in a NAAB accredited Architecture program
• Candidates must submit a portfolio with their applications

Desired Qualifications

• Convey ideas through hand sketches, renderings and vignettes.
• Design capability, demonstrated with a portfolio submitted with the application
• Architectural technical knowledge.
• Computer skills and knowledge (such as AutoCAD, Revit, Rhino, Sketchup, Adobe Suite & Office Suite.)
• Model making ability.
• Previous architectural employment.
• Ability to work in a team environment.

Internship Details

• The start date will be Thursday, May 29, 2025

• The internship will last approximately 12 weeks, ending on Friday, August 22, 2025

• This is a full-time internship (5 days per week at 7.25 hours per day)

• The format is expected to be hybrid

Selection Process

• Only applicants under consideration will be contacted
• If selected to move forward, the hiring team will reach out directly to schedule 1-2 interviews
• Different internships will have different timelines for interviews

Compensation & Benefits

• The hourly rate range is $17.63 to $27.21 (the exact rate will be determined by internship type and rising school year)

• Ability to opt in to the New York State and Local Retirement System
• Access to Employee Business Resource Groups
• Facility Tours
• Career Panels
• Social/Networking Events

How to Apply:

Interested candidates should apply to this job by clicking on the "Apply Now" button and submitting a resume. The Port Authority of NY & NJ welcomes veteran and military spouse applications.

Only applicants under consideration will be contacted.

About The Port Authority:

Founded in 1921, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey builds, operates, and maintains many of the most important transportation and trade infrastructure assets in the country. The agency's network of aviation, ground, rail, and seaport facilities is among the busiest in the country, supports more than 550,000 regional jobs, and generates more than twenty three billion in annual wages and eighty billion in annual economic activity. The Port Authority also owns and manages the 16-acre World Trade Center site, where the 1,776-foot-tall One World Trade Center is now the tallest skyscraper in the Western Hemisphere.

Equal Opportunity Employer

The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey/Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) is an Equal Opportunity Employer.