Construction Management Co-op employees work under the supervision of a project manager or supervisor to gain practical experience in all phases of construction projects, including planning, scheduling, and documentation, data collection, design calculations, creating CAD drawings, preparing reports, and attending site visits, while learning and developing your skills in the field, for a future career in Construction Management. Co-op employees are assigned duties that will provide a broad, well-rounded learning experience.
Responsibilities include:
- Interpreting blueprints and other technical documents.
- Helping with construction administration tasks
- Preparing engineering related calculations and developing drawings and visual aids.
- Performing simple calculations, computer data entry, along with some exposure to CAD, GIS, and design
- Assisting with field work for data collection, site inspections and observations.
- Keeping accurate records of site visits, progress, and any issues encountered.
- Preparing spreadsheets, and graphs, and figures for design reports.
- Observing and attending meetings with project stakeholders.
- Ensuring that traffic control measures are implemented and maintained during construction.
- Monitoring and recording the work and progress of contractors while tracking material quality and usage.
- Assisting with civil drafting in AutoCAD.
- Other related tasks as assigned
