Intern: PRT - Landscape Design

The City of Chesapeake is accepting applications for a Spring 2024 Internship (August 19 - November 29, 2024) with the Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Landscape Design Division.

As an intern, you will gain valuable skills by assisting with specialized landscaping design, installation and management of all City landscaped areas to include efficient and sustainable landscape beds, utilization of native plants, storm-water/drainage, irrigation systems, and a planned reduction of invasive species in parks and on citywide municipal grounds and selected gateways.

Key learning:

• Maintaining of landscaped and designated specialized planting and natural areas within parks, around municipal facilities and city gateways.

• Administrative functions, and completing work related logs, forms, and reports.

• Assists with facilitating extensive landscape designs, drawings and concepts and coordinates the implementation and maintenance of the designs to include planting and pruning natural areas, proper drainage, specialty spraying, irrigation, fertilization, spraying/weeding, tree cultivation, trimming and removal, mulching, and the development of heat and water tolerant low maintenance plants in projects.

• Conducts tree and plant risk assessments, evaluates bed and landscape canopy, evaluates urban heat island effects and remedies in plantings, removal of inappropriate invasive plants, emphasizes native plantings and evaluates landscape, canopy, rain gardens and heat island effect of public properties.

• Exceptional customer service by responding to service requests and inquires. Addresses customer service-related concerns as assigned that meets the expectations of the City's Customer CARES standards.

• Assists and participates in providing logistical support for City sponsored functions and special events; set-up and breakdown tents, fencing, barricades, and other various recreational and event equipment, perform pre and post event activities such as clean-up and trash removal.

Required Qualifications

VOCATIONAL/EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENT:

• Requires college level course work in Landscaping , or horticulture.

• Must be a college student in good academic standing, or a recent college graduate (i.e., within one year of graduation).

Preferred Qualifications

College level course work in Landscaping or horticulture.