Description
Banner Associates, Inc.
Who are we? We’re thinkers. We’re problem solvers. We’re innovators. We exist to provide engineering, land surveying and architectural consulting services to clients throughout South Dakota and the entire Midwest. For civil engineering, water and wastewater treatment, structural engineering, land surveying, and construction services, we are engineering a better community.
Banner offers a phenomenal internship program!
Our Engineering Interns are responsible for performing tasks requiring the application of standard civil engineering techniques and procedures. This includes standard design of civil project work and assisting engineers with various project duties. Opportunities for our Engineering Interns exist in three main divisions of Banner Associates, Inc.
Civil Engineering
Banner Associates, Inc. has extensive experience working with local, state and federal government, and private developers on projects in four key areas:
- Municipal Infrastructure / City Engineering – We provide innovative solutions, creating a seamless flow from the planning and design stage through construction. As part of our municipal services, we also provide city engineering services.
- Transportation – Our design capabilities range from residential streets and township roads to state highways. Our multi-disciplinary approach to transportation projects allows our water resource team to analyze drainage while our structural engineering team provides design services for bridges, box culverts, headwalls and other transportation structures.
- Land Development – Our land development projects include everything from small parcels to large residential neighborhoods, incorporating many of our services. From preliminary and final platting to land use planning, we help visions become reality. Lot layouts, grading plans, and water and sanitary sewer
- Site Development – Our site development projects consistently meet expectations due to our insight on local ordinances. Industrial and commercial site development often requires careful consideration of utilities, parking and pedestrian facility design, and storm drainage.
Water System & Wastewater Engineering
Water supply, treatment, and distribution engineering has long been the hallmark of our business. Our design experience in water systems ranges from simple chlorination and chemical feed points for wells that pump directly into water distribution systems to large, complete water treatment plants. Through distribution system modeling, we evaluate capacity, system pressure, and available fire flow to develop design criteria or locate booster pumps and water reservoirs. Interns may assist with source analysis and development, well fields, groundwater analysis, water treatment plant start-up, evaluation and design, ground storage reservoirs, water towers, pump stations, metering stations, and water distribution.
With growing environmental concerns prompting new, innovative wastewater treatment strategies, we are leaders in wastewater engineering. Banner also assists with wastewater improvements or facility upgrades. Interns may assist with municipal, industrial, or agricultural wastewater treatment, treatment plant start-up, evaluation and design, wastewater collection, lift stations, forcemains, stabilization ponds, large diameter pipe, supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, facility planning/engineering reports and operation and maintenance manuals.
Requirements
- Pursuit of a Bachelor’s degree in civil or environmental engineering from an accredited program with at least one year of post-secondary education completed prior to the start of the internship. OR Pursuit of an Associate’s degree in Civil Engineering Technology or Surveying Science Technology with at least one year of post-secondary education completed prior to the start of the internship.
- Prior internship and/or related work experience is a plus, but not required.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
Skills Required
- Pursuing a Bachelor's degree in civil or environmental engineering from an accredited program, with at least one year of post-secondary education completed before the internship
- Alternatively, pursuing an Associate's degree in Civil Engineering Technology or Surveying Science Technology, with at least one year of post-secondary education completed before the internship
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Prior internship or related work experience
What We Do
Established in 1947, Banner Associates, Inc. is an employee-owned professional services firm providing civil engineering, architectural consulting, environmental, and land surveying services. They specialize in municipal infrastructure, particularly water and wastewater systems, delivering planning, design, and construction solutions. The company serves both public and private sector clients throughout South Dakota and the broader Upper Midwest region to engineer a better community.
