Student Intern, Architecture - Buildings (Summer 2026)

Learning begins in the classroom but there’s no better place to gain real-world experience than with Stantec. Interns are an integral part of our teams, working to solve some of the world's most complex challenges.

As an intern, you’ll work alongside our experienced practitioners and with our clients and communities. This hands-on experience will equip you with practical skills, build your network, and provide opportunities that set you up for success.

Stantec Buildings is on a mission to become the world’s leading integrated design practice. Our architects, engineers, interior designers, sustainability specialists, and technologists are passionate about the power of design. We take an innovative, collaborative approach to projects, sharing a common belief that sustainable design for the built environment can make the world a better place for future generations. Join us and design your place with Stantec. 

Your Opportunity

Our Architecture & Interior Design group is renowned for creating high-performance, fiscally responsible and award-winning buildings and interiors. We’re passionate about the design quality of the built environment and create designs that are timeless, intelligent, and sustainable. This is the place where great ideas and rewarding careers call home. In our multidisciplinary, team-based environment, collaboration is key among a talented group of architects, project managers, interior designers, planners, and technologists, who work together to create innovative and integrated solutions for a wide range of clients. Our services include architecture, interior design, and planning for a wide variety of sectors.   

We are seeking energetic, outgoing, personable candidates for our summer 2026 internship program in Honolulu, with excellent design, graphics, organizational and communication skills. Stantec’s Buildings Internship Program is designed to give you the best internship experience possible through working on local projects and collaborate with designers, planners, engineers, project managers and technical leaders to explore the frontiers of design. Opportunities for our architecture interns include hands-on experience working on active projects, site visits, educational lunch and learns/seminars, and participation in internal design presentations and dialogues. 

Additionally, you will participate in Stantec’s Intern Design Project, an integrated team design project for a real client. You will be teaming with other interns in architecture, engineering, interiors, lighting design, and specialty services in North America to design and deliver cutting-edge and sustainable design solutions that exceed our clients’ needs.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Support multi-disciplinary team in developing designs, schematic sketches/diagrams, and documentation drawings.
• Assist in the preparation of design presentations.
• Utilize BIM software as a tool for design drawings. 
• Create design deliverables and provide marketing and business development support, including graphic design and PowerPoint.
• Effective teaming within the project team and consultants.