2025 Summer Internship- Construction Management

 

 

Job ID:  501853

 

APAC Central Inc., is a CRH company producing and providing crushed aggregate materials, sand, ready-mix concrete, asphalt, and performing as a regional heavy highway/infrastructure construction firm serving Arkansas, Oklahoma, and southern Missouri. APAC-Central, Inc. and its founding companies have been serving our customers since early in the 20th Century and look forward to continued success in the 21st Century!

 

Position Overview

The Intern position will work on gaining an overall understanding of the major divisions of CRH.  The selected candidate will be involved with and learn about various aspects of the company and may include all areas in Construction or Materials departments such as asphalt, aggregates, and ready mix.

 

Key Responsibilities (Essential Duties and Functions)

• Spend time at our construction sites, aggregates, asphalt, and ready mix plants to learn the fundamentals of production.
• Understand how to estimate and plan plant production requirements.
• Learn the asphalt and ready mix plant scheduling process to meet customer and internal demands and maximize capacity conflicts.
• Understand compliance requirements for our operations to meet federal and state regulations including MSHA and OSHA etc.
• Equipment preventative maintenance, scheduling, and shop operation.
• Quality Control/Quality Assurance – Asphalt, Aggregates, Ready Mix.
• Learn the material specification requirements our products are required to meet.
• Support the safety goals and processes of the company.
• Gain an in-depth understanding of the bidding and execution of construction.
• Spend time in field operations for heavy construction and paving.
• Understand how crew and scheduling efficiency is instrumental to achieve project goals.
• Understand project profitability (revenue/costs).
• Learn the fundamentals of material pricing for asphalt, aggregates and ready mix.
• Learn to derive quantities from plans and how to accurately price products.
• Manage customer issues.
• Learn accounts receivable and billing.
• Regular and predictable attendance at assigned times is required.
• Other duties as may be assigned.

 

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Education/Experience

• Ideal candidate must be currently enrolled in a college degree program and maintain a minimum GPA of 3.0 or better.
• Minimum of a high school diploma or general education degree (GED) required.

 

Work Requirements

• Must be 18 years in age or older.
• Must pass pre-employment physical, drug screen and criminal background check.