Planning & Urban Design Intern

DLR Group is an integrated design firm that aspires to be the most creative enterprise on the planet. Our brand promise is the elevate the human experience through design. If that challenge is appealing, you're at the right place.

DLR Groups Los Angeles studio has an opening for a Planning & Urban Design Intern. This is a hybrid role expected to be in the office three days a week. This is not a remote role. We have multiple positions and locations available; please refer to all openings posted and apply to the locations that are most suitable to your living situation during the course of your internship.

Each person who works at DLR Group has a design voice, and we cant wait to help you define and amplify yours. Whether its through a design charrette, a client meeting, an internal project review, or working through a building detail, youll learn the nuts and bolts (ha!) of putting together a building, while being part of something larger than yourself. You will gain experience on projects large and small, in various phases of construction. We also hope to give you experiences outside of the typical internship in your discipline from helping out on a business development or marketing pursuit, planning an event for your office, or sharing your ideas on what the future of design services looks like.

As a DLR Group Summer Intern, you will be an important part of our integrated design team and will help produce designs for commercial, educational, and municipal buildings of all sizes and complexities. Our Summer Internship Program is a paid, full-time opportunity running from May 14 through August 9, 2024. We expect interns to participate throughout the duration of the program. This is a fantastic opportunity to grow, learn and contribute your design voice to our brand promise of Elevating the Human Experience.

The successful candidate will:

• Participate with other design team members in an integrated design process for various projects.
• Learn to use primary design tools such as ArcGIS, PowerBI, and proprietary DLR Group design tools and methods.
• Assist with the preparation of presentation materials using Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite.
• Assist with project pursuits and business development opportunities.
• Actively participate in project and site meetings.
• Participate in and gain an understanding of planning documentation.

Required Qualifications

• Enrolled in a Graduate degree in planning or Urban Design OR and have a Bachelors degree in allied fields including planning, architecture, and landscape architecture.
• Experience with Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with ArcGIS, Sketchup, and CAD/Revit
  Excellent visual, verbal, and non-verbal communication skills and analytical or research skills.
• Previous experience

DLR Group is an integrated design firm delivering architecture, engineering, interiors, planning, and building optimization for new builds, renovations, and adaptive reuse projects.

We are 100% employee-owned: every employee is literally invested in our clients success. At the core of our firm are interdisciplinary teams engaged in every step of project lifecycles. Our teams champion true collaboration, open information sharing, shared risk and reward, value-based decision-making, and proficient use of technology to deliver exceptional design. We are pursuing the goals of the 2030 Challenge, the ME2040, and the SE2050, and are an initial signatory of the China Accord and the AIA 2030 Commitment. The potential pay range for this role is $23 - $25 per hour.

Through our values commitment, creativity, environmental stewardship, fun, integrity, ownership, sharing, teamwork we elevate the human experience through design, together.

We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V.