Architect Intern

ARCHITECT INTERN

Department of Correction

Operational Support- Facilities Planning and Construction

Nashville, TN

Salary: $20.00 per hour

Closing Date: 6/11/2024

Who We Are and What We Do:

The Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) has emerged as a model in the nation for its management practices and cost-saving measures since becoming one of the first correctional systems in the country to be fully accredited in 1994. Since that time, each component of the system has been reaccredited in a three-year cycle by the American Correctional Association. The department's mission has always been to operate safe and secure prisons to enhance public safety in Tennessee through incarceration and rehabilitation of felony offenders.  The mission was expanded in 2012 to include providing effective community supervision of adult offenders to ensure public safety based upon the transfer of probation and parole supervision and community correction grant program functions from the Board of Parole (BOP) to the TDOC.  This transition is critical to the seamless supervision of felons in Tennessee, whether they are on probation, incarcerated in prison, on parole, or under the supervision of one of the community corrections agencies.  The department is working to ensure seamless supervision of offenders from the minute they enter the state system through their return to the community and the eventual end of their sentence.

The department manages and operates 10 adult prisons, contracts with a private prison management company for the operation of one prison, and contracts with several counties for the operation of  three other prisons, collectively housing some 21,000 offenders.  The TDOC also supervises some 75,000 offenders on probation, parole or community corrections. The community supervision unit consists of 13 districts and 46 probation/parole offices.  The department has more than 6,500 employees.  The Tennessee Correction Academy in Tullahoma is the department's training facility.

Job Overview:

The Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) Facilities Planning and Construction [FPC] Division directs the construction, major remodeling, and inspection activities related to this large Agency with significant capital budget outlay.  FPC develops and maintains a variety of facilities plans, including the Facilities Master Plan, the Construction Plan, the Scheduled Maintenance Plan, the Energy Efficiency Plan, and facility capital project planning. They establish guidelines for the design of all new construction and major renovation projects; considering energy and environmental design and ADA physical access planning.  The Facilities Planning team responds to many requests from operations and designers, commissioned with TDOC Projects, for access to the information and records in the form of project documents for TDOC Facilities. The standards provide project managers and design consultants with guidelines for specifying products and systems that conform to the TDOC¿s functional demands.

Key Responsibilities:

Under administrative direction, candidates will be exposed to professional facilities construction architectural/engineering planning and development.  Interns will help Coordinate the work of contract architects and engineers to ensure compliance with pertinent building rules and TDOC regulations, work toward the effective translation of intent and scope of approved projects into logical, workable physical facilities.  They will be given opportunity to review processes in energy, environment, and ADA physical access planning.  Interns will learn to work with the TDOC library of construction documents to understand the relationship between project documents and the construction activities in a readily usable format.  Interns will be responsible for observing and learning from the TDOC team of Architects, Project Managers, Facility Administrators, Security Experts, and Safety Professionals.

Minimum Qualifications:

Candidates appointed for intern positions must be students from a college or university working towards a bachelor's degree in architecture or architectural, civil, electrical, fire protection, mechanical, or other related acceptable field of engineering science and being classified/enrolled as a Junior or greater. 

Preferably students are those that are eligible to start in an Intern Development Program for Professional Registration.  Applicant must submit to and pass:  Background Investigation.

Pursuant to the State of Tennessee's Workplace Discrimination and Harassment policy, the State is firmly committed to the principle of fair and equal employment opportunities for its citizens and strives to protect the rights and opportunities of all people to seek, obtain, and hold employment without being subjected to illegal discrimination and harassment in the workplace. It is the State's policy to provide an environment free of discrimination and harassment of an individual because of that person's race, color, national origin, age (40 and over), sex, pregnancy, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status or any other category protected by state and/or federal civil rights laws.