Construction Management Intern: Budget, Scheduling & Safety

Balfour Beatty US; Falls Church, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 32,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Balfour Beatty US in Falls Church, VA invites motivated college students to apply for our 2027 Internship program. This opportunity provides hands-on exposure to construction management workflows, budgeting, safety, quality control, and project coordination alongside experienced professionals.

You will learn through real tasks like reviewing submittals, coordinating with the project team, and supporting office operations while developing strong communication and organizational skills in a

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a Construction Management, Civil Engineering or Mechanical Engineering program.

Responsibilities

• Learn about managing the project budget by controlling expenditures, coordinating owner and subcontractor billings, identifying work not covered by subcontractor, and ensuring successful office support related to overall cost and schedule.
• Learn about Safety and Quality Control programs and how to coordinate actions to address problems.
• Learn about company procedures, the correspondence process and handling, etc. with the Office Manager in accordance with the Operations Manual.
• Learn how to review and process submittal data and shop drawings.
• Understand how to coordinate submittals, deliveries, etc. that affect the project schedule with the Superintendent.
• Monitor/review weekly and monthly status reports and weekly subcontractor meeting minutes, change orders, etc. to understand process.
• Understand change documents and change proposal requests for price review.
• May go with Project Engineer to meetings with architect and owner representatives to understand information required by owner, necessary progress reports and summaries, and how action plans from owner/architect meetings address all outstanding issues related to the project.
• Learn how changes, clarifications, directives, RFIs, etc. are updated on “as-built” plans and coordinated with company supervision and subcontractors/suppliers.
• Learn how to maintain RFI logs and change request log.

Skills

Communication skills

Problem solving

Teamwork

Education

Construction Management

Civil Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Balfour Beatty US in Falls Church, VA invites motivated college students to apply for our 2027 Internship program. This opportunity provides hands-on exposure to construction management workflows, budgeting, safety, quality control, and project coordination alongside experienced professionals.

You will learn through real tasks like reviewing submittals, coordinating with the project team, and supporting office operations while developing strong communication and organizational skills in a