Intern Field Engineer - Spring 2027 - AMP'd Up Program!

DEPARTMENT: OPERATIONS REPORTS TO: PM/SUPT ON SITE Overview This three-to-six-month intern administrative position works with the project team, suppliers, general contractors, and vendors to support project manager, superintendent, and field as needed. The Field Engineer Intern solves customer, vendor, and supplier problems, keeps construction drawings updated with submittal, RFI’s, and any other project information and tracks shipments and long lead items and communicates details to the team.

General Responsibilities

• Maintain open communication lines with all working relationships
• Follow up to ensure items for which the job is accountable are performed
• Earn and maintain team and customer’s trust
• Uphold the core values of the organization
• Work well with others to accomplish the mission of the organization and of the job

Specific Responsibilities Project Management Support

• Review specifications and performs material take offs
• Review and track submittals from vendors
• Track material related to the job
• Maintain filing in the project manual and project Studio
• Generate letters and memos as required
• Write, log and track Request for Information (RFI) documents

Purchasing

• Obtain and de-scope quotes from vendors and submits to Project Engineer
• Track major material
• Assure material order complies with specifications based on research
• May determine tax rates and tax-exempt status for purchase orders, requisitions and subcontracts based on geographic area served, project type, and tax-exempt status of client
• Will learn the fundamentals of purchase order and subcontract initiation and execution

Field Liaison

• Make copies and updates field with changes to the construction documents
• Perform 2-D AutoCad as necessary
• Update contract drawings with submittals, RFI, etc.

Project Close Out

• Request assembles and submits Operations and Maintenance manuals and testing reports
• Update and submit as-built drawings
• Archive Operations and Maintenance Manuals and As-Built drawings
• Submit spare material as required for project close out
• Schedule and coordinate owner training and third-party commissioning

On-Site Only

• Track, receive, and coordinate staging of committed material
• Inspect equipment as received for damage and whether items received are correct as compared to bill of material and submittals
• Maintain on-site project manuals

Other Duties As May Be Assigned KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES: Knowledge Of

• General Construction Standards (Electrical Construction Standards are preferred)
• National Electric Code

Skill In

• Decision making
• Adapting to new and changing requirements, environments, and/or information
• Estimating resources needed to complete required tasks
• Managing duties and tasks and breaking them down to their component levels
• Use of communication software and hardware
• Business writing and etiquette
• Effective written and oral communication sufficient to be able to elicit and communicate information and achieve understanding
• Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with customers, vendors, consultants, management, and employees
• Operating a computer
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Bluebeam
• Organizing work to accomplish tasks through effective time management
• Multitasking
• Prioritizing and reprioritizing to meet job needs
• Problem solving
• Tracking numbers and bits of data relevant to the work assignment

Physical Requirements

• Climbing
• Crawling
• Driving
• Kneeling
• Lifting (up to 50 lbs)
• Sitting
• Standing
• Stooping
• Vision acuity (near and far)
• Walking

Requirements This position requires a high school diploma with completion of a sophomore level college curriculum in construction management or related field, or experience in the construction field strongly preferred. Experience in electrical industry and a positive attitude, sense of urgency, initiative and attention to detail, and ability to solve problems is also preferred.

Benefits Of This Role

• Encore Electric provides excellent benefits for our employees, including: medical, dental, and vision plans, disability, and life insurance, employee-matched 401(k), paid time off (PTO), an employee assistance program that includes counseling, legal, and financial advice.
• Encore also provides a generous employee referral program, and access to technical, safety, personal finance, and leadership training through Encore University, Encore’s in house training program.

Applications will close for this position on: November 1, 2026

For questions regarding this role, please contact : [email protected]

To request an accommodation during the application process, please contact [email protected] . Encore Electric, Inc. is an EOE, including disability/vets. Equal Opportunity Employer

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