Mechanical Engineering Intern (Summer 2027)

Description When you walk into a building, do you wonder how it actually works? We do too. Summer Consultants is looking for Mechanical Engineering Interns for Summer 2027. This is an opportunity for an engineering student who is curious about building systems and wants to see how classroom concepts become real designs in real buildings.

At Summer Consultants, we design the mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection systems that make buildings safe, comfortable, functional, and reliable. Much of our work involves renovating and modernizing existing federal, institutional, higher education, and historic facilities. That means our projects are technical, hands-on, and rarely routine.

As an intern at Summer, you will support real project work alongside experienced engineers. You may assist with surveys, calculations, equipment selection, ductwork and piping layouts, drawings, and other project activities appropriate to your experience and the needs of the team.

Existing buildings do not give you a clean sheet of paper. Our engineers spend real time in the field walking buildings, surveying and documenting existing conditions, tracing systems, observing constraints, and figuring out how a new design can actually work within the building that is already there. The challenge of renovation work is solving real problems: what is already there, what can change, what must remain operational, how equipment and systems fit within existing spaces, and how a design can actually be built.

Field surveys are also an important part of how our interns learn. You may help observe and document existing mechanical and plumbing systems, ask questions about what you are seeing, and learn how field conditions affect design decisions. Seeing buildings firsthand helps connect engineering concepts, drawings, and calculations to the systems that are actually installed and operating.

Curious about building systems? Let's see what we can do together.

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