Environmental Scientist/Geologist Intern

Founded in 1981, AKRF is an award-winning consulting firm with 400 professionals bringing the value of strategic thinking to our land development, transportation, energy, and water clients. We serve our clients through a commitment to technical excellence across our portfolio of professional services, while always acting with integrity and fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and environmental stewardship. Offices are located throughout New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and Connecticut, and the company completes projects around the country.

Professionals join and remain at AKRF for our corporate-casual environment that values flexible work schedules and locations, and balances award-winning planning, engineering, and environmental projects with social impact initiatives, charitable giving, and plenty of fun and games. Our cookie exchanges and ice cream socials are quite the treat.

The Site Assessment and Remediation practice at AKRF delivers value on projects of all scopes and sizes, from individual lots and single-use buildings to large-scale mixed-use developments, corporate and institutional campuses, renewable energy facilities, and infrastructure improvements. We are seeking an environmental scienctist/geologist intern to participate in our 2025 summer internship program. This position could be based in our New York City office.

Job Responsibilities

• Phase I Environmental Site Assessments.
• Phase II/Subsurface/Remedial Investigations including logging borings and soil, groundwater, soil vapor, and indoor air sampling.
• Remediation oversight and community air monitoring related to brownfield redevelopment.
• Oversight of subcontractors such as drillers, excavation companies, and remedial contractors.
• Data interpretation, report preparation and writing (Work Plans, Phase II and Remedial Investigation Reports, Remedial Plans, etc.).

Essential Requirements

• An accredited STEM bachelor’s degree program or STEM graduate program
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills with the ability to work on multiple tasks simultaneously
• Initiative and ability to take on new projects and other challenges regularly
• Dependability and an eagerness to take ownership of tasks

Compensation will range from $19hr-$24hr, and commensurate with experience.

AKRF enforces a policy of equal employment opportunity in our daily operations. The firm has a demonstrated history of hiring, training, developing, promoting and retaining minority group members and women. All employment-related decisions are based solely on relevant criteria and without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, sexual identity, caregiver status, military/veteran status or citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.