About Burns:

Burns Engineering provides professional engineering design and project management services for transportation, facilities, and infrastructure projects. We help our clients attain their strategic goals and initiatives through successful large-scale infrastructure projects. Burns’ full-service capabilities include mechanical, electrical, civil, structural, transportation, and energy consulting engineering.

Recently voted a Top Workplace by Philly.com, we credit our strength as an organization to our talented, driven, vibrant team. Burns is an ENR Top 500 Firm, and has been named an MEP Giant by Consulting-Specifying Engineer Magazine, as well as a Hot Firm by Zweig. We are industry experts, proven leaders, innovative thinkers, and team players. We put our clients’ successes and best interests first, because their success is our success. We have fun at work because we love making a difference in the world. We are looking for high-energy, bright, collaborative individuals who want the opportunity to “write their own story” with us.

We are currently seeking an Information Technology (IT) Co-Op to join our office in Philadelphia, PA.

Position Summary:

IT is looking for a co-op to provide them an opportunity to experience all aspects of the IT Department at Burns inclusive of Networking and Infrastructure, Customer Support and Experience, Application Development and BIM. This individual will work with each area through the course of their tenure.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

• Customer Support and Experience: Assist with all aspects of Support from Help Desk through to higher level issues. Learn the basics of Level 1 and 2 help desk support in all aspects including, but not limited to, hardware, software, documentation, training, responsiveness and professionalism.
• Networking and Infrastructure: Work with the Network Architecture team and interact with networking basics including routing and switching, firewall rules and operations, cybersecurity, server configuration and virtualization.
• BIM: Work with the BIM team to understand the intersection of technology and business process. The support of the production team is critical to the firm’s success.
• Application Development: The newest area of the department will provide insight into the creation of new products and services to our clients as well as creating internal efficiencies for our staff.

Key Requirements:

• A demonstrated ability to learn the basics within his or her discipline and grow within the firm
• Course work in a four-year undergraduate program with a focus in a related field (Application Development, MIS, Information Technology, etc.)
• 0-2 years internship experience preferred

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