Intern - Department of Public Works - Facilities Management
Posted Sep 21, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
What are you studying, and what drew you to facilities work?
What they are checking: The posting requires enrollment in an architectural, engineering or closely related program.
Up to thirty hours a week, flexible around your classes, for three months to a year. How would you plan that?
What they are checking: The posting states the hours and the term precisely.
What would you want to have learned by the end of this?
What they are checking: An intern with a goal gets more out of the work, and the answer shows whether they have thought about it.
This is with a county government. What interests you about public sector work?
What they are checking: Public works has different constraints from private practice, and knowing that matters.
What would you do
You are given a task and you are not sure what is being asked. What do you do?
What they are checking: Interns fail by guessing, and this is the habit that decides the summer.
How do you work with tradespeople who have been doing this far longer than you?
What they are checking: The real social test of a facilities internship.
About the work
Tell me about your AutoCAD experience.
What they are checking: The posting names familiarity with AutoCAD specifically.
What building systems do you understand best, and which do you want to learn?
What they are checking: Facilities management covers mechanical, electrical and structural, and honesty about the gap is the useful answer.
How would you go about measuring and drawing up an existing space?
What they are checking: The most common thing a facilities intern is actually asked to do.
How do you organize drawings and records so someone else can find them later?
What they are checking: Facilities departments live on their records, and an intern's filing outlasts the intern.
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