Attached is a flyer for 2018 Summer Seasonal Employment Opportunities for the USDA Forest Service, Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest in Wisconsin. Please distribute as you see fit. All position can be applied for through USAJobs. The vacancies will not open until December 1st and will close on December 7th. This means you will not see the positions posted in USAJobs until December 1st. Please remember to attach all transcripts and supporting documentation with your application. Contact information for each position that will be advertised is included in the flyer.
Have you enjoyed your Michigan Tech experience? Maybe you’ve built a 30 foot snow statue for Winter Carnival, held a leadership role in a campus organization related to your interests, or worked on developing new technologies through one of our Enterprise teams. The Undergraduate Admissions Office is hiring students with various campus experiences and a passion for Michigan Tech to serve as Student Telecounselors and Campus Tour Guides. Both roles provide you with an opportunity to share the Michigan Tech student experience and help prospective students determine if Michigan Tech is the right fit for them.
Student Telecounselors: Calling takes place Monday through Thursday from 6 – 9 p.m. in the spring, on the third floor of Rehki Hall. You must work a minimum of two 3-hour shifts each week.
Campus Tour Guides: Campus tours are offered Monday through Friday with shifts available from 8 – 9 a.m., 8 – 10 a.m., 10 a.m. – 1 p.m., 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., 12 – 1 p.m., and 2 – 4 p.m.
To apply, you must be an undergraduate student who has completed at least two semesters at Michigan Tech by the time you begin work and have an overall GPA of 2.5 or higher. You must be enrolled in courses for the semester for which you are applying, with the exception of summer.
If you want to make a difference for prospective Michigan Tech students please complete the attached application or apply through Handshake Posting Number #117102! Completed applications including a copy of your course schedule for the semester you are applying for must be submitted no later than Friday, December 15.
Please direct questions to Angela Hoffman, aehoffma@mtu.edu, 906-487-1855.
Olsson Associates is looking for a highly motivated new graduate with interest in Railroad Structural design who can help us fill our immediate needs. We have many opportunities with Union Pacific and Burlington Northern and serve many different disciplines within the Railroad Industry that we need help with right away! Below are a few qualifications we are looking for in a structures candidate:
- Highly recommended by faculty and staff
- Highly motivated, team player who wants a collaborative, energetic and flexible work environment
- Willing to travel (mostly West of Chicago for UPRR and BNSF projects)
- Based in Omaha, NE (home of UPRR Headquarters)
- Heavy interest in Rail Structures with related coursework, design knowledge and capabilities
- Passed (or ready to sit for) the Fundamentals of Engineering test to be an EIT
- MicroStation CAD work will be required. If the candidate doesn’t have these skills, we can train them.
Olsson Associates has a very competitive starting salary great benefits and we have immediate availability for someone to start after graduation, or work part time until graduation finishes. If you can think of any interested candidates that you could send our way or would like to discuss the opportunities more, feel free to give me a call. Thank you so much for your time and consideration.
Shane N. Potts, PE | Olsson Associates
2111 South 67th Street, Suite 200 | Omaha, NE 68106 | spotts@olssonassociates.com
TEL 402.341.1116 | CELL 402.880.6408 | FAX 402.341.5895
VerHalen’s Project Engineer is an entry point into the business with intended advancement to Project Manager role within the company. The initial duties are to support the Project Managers in all facets of project management to begin to understand the business from the ground up.
Job description is attached. You can find additional information about the company on their website (www.verhaleninc.com).
If are interested in appling, please email your cover letter and resume directly to Nick Grbavcich (ngrbavcich@verhaleninc.com) or to the Human Resources Manager, Paula Wiese (pwiese@verhaleninc.com).
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What: Lunda Construction Company Info Session; Brad Diener
When: Wednesday, October 25th 2017 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm EDT
Where: Dillman Hall, Room 204
Do you want to work on multiple unique and challenging projects throughout your career? Do you want to maximize your earning potential in a fast-paced, demanding, work environment that will reward you both personally and financially? Does the idea of building a $325 million dollar bridge across the Mississippi River intrigue you? Do you want to make it happen or stand by while others do?
Lunda Construction Company is a major heavy/highway, civil and industrial general contractor and one of the largest bridge builders in the United States. We are currently seeking a quality, highly motivated, full-time Construction Project Manager, Estimator, and construction intern(s) for our Heavy/Civil Bridge Division and Industrial Division which will operate out of our Hilbert, WI office.
If you want to find out more attend this info session to network with alumni and enjoy some free food!
Strand Associates will be hosting an information session for tonight (Oct. 18) at 6 pm in Dow 642. BRING RESUMES! They will be conducting interviews on Thursday, October 19th. The job description and interview details are available on the Career Center/Handshake website. They are looking to hire full-time civil and environmental engineers and interns at all of their 10 locations.
Mike Forslund, PE (MTU Class of 2000)
Strand Associates, Inc.(r)
608.251.4843 ext. 1104
mike.forslund@strand.com| www.strand.com
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality is currently recruiting for an Environmental Quality Analyst 9-P11/12 position for the Remediation and Redevelopment Division. This position is open to all applicants. This position is permanent full-time and is located at the Upper Peninsula District Office, 1504 West Washington Street, Marquette, MI. Interested applicants must apply through NEOGOV.
If you are interested in obtaining more information or applying, click on the link below.
Hourly Research Assistants for Traffic Video Annotation The high-performance computing laboratory for Sustainable Intelligent Transportation Systems (SITSLab) in the Department Civil and Environmental Engineering is looking for hourly research assistants to help a research project on using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to monitor traffic flow dynamics. The hourly research assistants will work with a Ph.D. student on using a semi-automatic traffic annotation tool, iATTS (Interactive Annotation Tool for Transportation Surveillance), developed at SITS-Lab to identify and annotate individual vehicle trajectories in UAV videos. The work will be conducted in our research laboratory, Dow 842. The hourly pay rate will be $10/hour.
To qualify for this position you should be familiar with the following computer operations:
- Google Earth (Google Maps) software
- Windows Paint
- Familiar with video play software such as windows media player
- Quick learning ability to operate a Windows GUI – iATTS
The successful candidates must be able to show excellent communication skills, demonstrated attention to detail, and a good work ethic. You have to pass a training test in order to do this work.
If you are interested in this opportunity, please contact Dr. Kuilin Zhang (klzhang@mtu.edu).
Fleis & VanderBrink is looking for upcoming (December) graduates interested in traffic and transportation.
They are looking to hire one or two new grads that have an ability to do public speaking, can work in a very fast paced environment, is very good technically, a fast learner and is really passionate about traffic operations and design-or wants to be.
If yes, they would love to talk to you and see if they would be interested in joining our group in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
Their group does about 75% of all of the traffic impact studies in Michigan and are looking to grow that number. Some of their clients include Meijer, Kroger and Amazon. Fleis & VanderBrink also work with municipalities such as Livonia, Birmingham and Brighton Twp in addition to traffic studies they perform as part of MDOT contracts. This is only a fraction of the diversity of work that they perform in this group and with some great new grads with fresh ideas they can take the group to the next level.
If interested, please contact Julie Kroll (jkroll@fveng.com).
Julie M. Kroll, PE, PTOE
Sr. Project Manager
Fleis & VandenBrink
27725 Stansbury Blvd., Suite 195 | Farmington Hills | MI | 48334
O: 248.536.0080 | D: 248.536.1998 | C: 248.342.5786 | F: 248.536.0079
The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) is currently seeking a Transportation Engineer, located in Lansing, Michigan.
This position functions in the specialized area of bridge design.
Possession of a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering or in civil and environmental engineering is required.
You may view the job posting here: Transportation Engineer