Part - time Fall 2025 Engineering Intern - Water Resource Design

Internship Opportunity In Water Resource Design

We are looking for a part-time intern to join our Water Resource Design group in New Orleans, LA for Fall 2025! Our interns bring a fresh perspective and new energy to our teams. As a Freese and Nichols intern, you will learn and grow on real projects and be mentored by our amazing professionals. After maintaining our status as a Top 100 Internship Program given by Yello and WayUp we hope to continue to make our internship program a great one and need YOU to do it!

What does the role look like?

This internship will require you to be in office each day to help build connections with your group, fellow interns, and others. Relocation or housing stipends will NOT be provided for internships. Learn more about what each practice does.

By planning and designing the infrastructure our society needs, working at Freese and Nichols means positively impacting the world around us. We plan, design, and manage infrastructure projects with client service and continuous improvement in mind.

Majors we hire:

• Civil/Environmental/Water Resource Engineering
• Biological and Agricultural/Biosystems Engineering
• Structural/Geotechnical/Geological Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Perform specific and limited tasks within a broader assignment
• Apply standard practices and techniques in specific situations
• Assist project manager as needed
• Collect, adjust, and correlate perform calculations, and recognize discrepancies in results

Qualifications:

• Current student pursuing a BS or MS degree in one of the majors listed above
• Graduation date of December 2025 or later

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Excel, HEC-RAS, HEC-HMS, AutoCAD, or GIS
• Student organizational involvement

About Freese and Nichols:

At the heart of our culture is our LEADS values (Learn continuously, Engage as family, Act with integrity, Deliver quality, and Serve always). Each year, our employee engagement survey confirms that our leaders and our employees live our values.

We strive to be the firm of choice for clients and employees through innovative approaches, practical results, and outstanding service. For more than 130 years, we have been planning and designing the infrastructure our communities need: developing water supplies, designing roadways and bridges, preparing for natural disasters, and much more.

Besides our comprehensive benefits package, we offer paid overtime for salaried employees, an annual bonus, and access to company cabins in Red River, New Mexico. We are proud of our flexible work environment which includes a hybrid schedule with up to 40% of remote work, and an alternative work schedule program which provides a day off every other Friday.

Join our team of 1,300+ employees as we grow from Virginia to Colorado. Freese and Nichols is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and prohibits employment discrimination for employees and applicants based upon race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.