Sign / Signal Intern - Skilled Trades Worker Internship

Internship Opportunity

This is a unique opportunity to work in the fabrication, installation, maintenance, and repair of traffic control devices to include traffic signs, pavement markings, delineators, barricades, cones, raised pavement markers and any other device related to Traffic Operations in our Public Works department. It also includes programming and deployment of message boards, arrow boards, and more!

Are you interested in getting hands-on experience in your chosen field? Do you want to make a difference in your community? Intern Sarasota County dedicated to providing students with an unsurpassed learning experience and insight into the dynamic world of public sector employment. Develop new skills you can apply in the workplace. Gain skills that will enhance your resume and increase your career options while exploring public service! Observe and participate in tasks and responsibilities performed daily by skilled professionals. Experience workplace culture, office dynamics, and business etiquette.

Your internship will include impactful hands-on work within a department, networking, professional development, and building long lasting connections with other interns, mentors, and Sarasota County team members.

Department Responsibilities :

• Locate where traffic signs and other apparatus is to be installed
• Fabricate and install signs and posts
• Fabricate and install delineators, barricades, cones and raised pavement markers
• Load and deploy cones and barricades, as directed
• Program and deploy message boards and arrow boards, as directed
• Clean and maintain existing signs and other traffic control devices
• Perform other traffic operations related functions, as directed

Signal Maintenance :

Maintain Equipment :

Collaborate with your department colleagues to make and influence real changes.

Internship Program Responsibilities :

Your Internship Includes :

Minimum Qualifications :

Preferred Qualifications :

Program Dates : The 2025 internship program will begin on May 19, 2025 and end on August 8, 2025. Internship Hours : 40 hours / week, Monday-Friday, 8 : 00 a.m.-5 : 00 p.m.; some departments vary. In-person, on-site at our various locations in Sarasota County.

Location : 1001 Sarasota Center Blvd. Pay Range : $13 per hour (high school student) up to $20 per hour (Grad / Masters student), based on your credit hours earned. Returning interns earn an additional $0.50 / hour, up to $1.00 for those returning for the third year.

Our interview process could include phone interview(s), Microsoft Teams video interview(s), and / or in-person interview(s). If you are selected to join our team, please click on this link to review the Required First Day Documents. You will need to present the following items on your first day : 1. I-9 Acceptable Documents to show your identity and authorization to work. If your position requires a Florida Driver's License, this must be one of your documents.

Employee benefits and Florida Retirement System contributions are not available for seasonal and temporary positions. Positions marked Full Time and Regular (Budgeted) are eligible for benefits, for more information about employee benefits, please click this link or visit SCGov.net.

Sarasota County Many Voices, One Team. We celebrate and value the experiences, backgrounds, perspectives, talents and strengths that make us different. Our vision is to attract, develop, retain and engage a talented workforce broadly representative of the citizens and communities we serve. To further value creativity, innovation, collaboration and great customer service internally and externally.

A job applicant with a disability who requires reasonable accommodation to participate in the application / selection process is requested to make known the need for an accommodation to Human Resources or appropriate county staff members. For assistance with the application, please call 941-861-5353.

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Sarasota County Government is a Tobacco-Free / Drug-Free Workplace.