Get in the LEAD!

Kick Start Your Career. 80% of our interns are offered a position at NTH after graduation!

Our LEAD internship program gives students the opportunity to gain on-site Learning, Experience, And Development and make an impact in their chosen field prior to graduation. The “hands-on” experience and mentoring can provide students a distinct advantage as they take the first steps towards their careers.  

We are looking for Interns with these skills and interests:
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Geotechnical/Civil Engineering (Northville)

• Assist with monitoring of construction operations, including earthwork, foundation installations, and paving (concrete and asphalt). Provide assistance with Geotechnical Site investigations. Assist with the inspection of test borings, test pits, monitoring wells. Assist with laboratory and field-testing of soils. Provide design assistance during construction. Assist with engineering analyses and calculations. Assist with proposal & report preparation.

Construction Engineering Services (Northville)

• Perform field quality control testing for construction activities: soil testing, including density testing for compacted earth fill, testing of fresh concrete and asphalt, laboratory testing and other activities as required. Experience in the use of laboratory and field testing equipment a plus.

Facilities/Infrastructure Engineering (Northville)

• Perform condition assessments on building systems (facade / building envelope, roofs and pavements). Develop CAD sketches and details for roof systems, building elevations with fenestrations, and pavements to accurately depict conditions and potential rehabilitation work. May assist or conduct inspection of structural steel erection including bolting, welding and fit-up as well as concrete and soil materials testing. Candidate should have the ability to lift and carry inspection equipment and perform inspection duties as well as working from an elevated platform, if necessary.

Air Quality (Grand Rapids)

• Perform and review emission calculations.  Review and summarize air quality regulations.  Assist with dispersion modeling and assist with the preparation of air use permit applications, technical proposals, cost estimates, plans, technical specifications, and reports, including day-to-day correspondence.

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Summer intern, Colton Morrow patches a core hole under the cooling towers at the DTW North Power House which serves the major systems that provide air conditioning for the entire DTW North Terminal, after drilling a 2" diameter core into the elevated concrete slab.  The core was drilled as part of a project to assess the integrity of the concrete slab at the Power House. Due to the standing water, commonly seen at Cooling Towers, Colton was using a shop vacuum to ensure the cement mix patch was dry to allow the mix to harden.