# Planning Intern - Summer 2026

**Company**: WSP USA
**Location**: Philadelphia, PA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: internship
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

WSP USA's National Planning Team is seeking a Full-Time Planning Intern to work out of our Philadelphia, PA office. This temporary position is seeking individuals currently enrolled in an Undergraduate or Graduate degree program.

As a Planning Intern, you will support a variety of planning tasks with the goal to develop technical, social, and ethical skills. You will learn basic principles of transportation and transit planning, assist with project research, field work, and preliminary design calculations and analysis. Additionally, you will support preparation of final planning reports, collect and maintain project documentation, and support the business functions of the national planning team.

Responsibilities:

- Support a variety of planning tasks with the goal to develop technical, social, and ethical skills.

- Learn basic principles of transportation and transit planning.

- Assist with project research, field work, and preliminary design calculations and analysis.

- Support preparation of final planning reports.

- Assist in collecting and maintaining project documentation.

- Support the business functions of the national planning team.

- Complete training on assigned tasks.

- Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources and conduct, and adhere to WSP’s Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures.

- Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs.

Requirements:

- Actively enrolled in an accredited undergraduate Planning program with an anticipated graduation date of August 2027 or later.

- Must be 18 or older.

- Demonstrated interest in transportation, transit or environmental planning, or related field, and have a strong desire to advance skills related to WSP’s work and projects.

- Competent interpersonal and communication skills when interacting with others, expressing ideas effectively and professionally to an engineering and non-engineering audience.

- Capable of taking direction from leadership, mentors, and managers to executive projects.

- Basic proficiency with technical writing, office automation, software, spreadsheets, technology, and tools.

- Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.

- Authorization to work in the United States at the start of the internship

Preferred Qualifications:

- Actively enrolled in an accredited Masters or PhD Planning program with an anticipated graduation date of August 2027 or later.

- Experience using: Microsoft Suite including Excel, Outlook, Teams, PowerPoint, Adobe Suite: InDesign and Illustrator, Photoshop, Esri ArcGIS.

- Prior internship and leadership involvement on campus

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## Skills

### Required
- transportation planning
- transit planning
- environmental planning
- project research
- field work
- preliminary design calculations
- analysis
- technical writing
- office automation
- software
- spreadsheets
- technology
- tools

### Nice to have
- Microsoft Suite
- Excel
- Outlook
- Teams
- PowerPoint
- Adobe Suite
- InDesign
- Illustrator
- Photoshop
- Esri ArcGIS

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