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Road Inventory Technician Intern

DJ&A, P.C.
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Road Inventory Technician Intern – Summer 2026

(California – various sites)

Please apply on our website: https://www.djanda.com/career/summer-internships/

About Woodland Solutions Group (a DJ&A company)

Woodland Solutions Group brings together some of the best GIS analysts, software developers and project managers in the industry.  Our team is highly skilled with decades of experience.  Our Inventory Management System is quickly becoming the de facto standard for the forest industry and our MobileMap application and Spatial CMS framework are enabling a wide range of private companies, state and federal agencies, public utilities, universities and not-for-profit organizations to solve complex geospatial data collection and management challenges.

Woodland Solutions Group is a proud subsidiary of DJ&A.  Founded in 1973, DJ&A is a multidisciplinary professional services consulting firm with office locations across Montana, Colorado, Washington, New Mexico, and Nevada. DJ&A's team of more than 180 professionals works across the country to deliver a diverse range of engineering, environmental, survey, landscape architecture, and planning projects for federal, local, tribal, and private clientele.

Job Summary

Woodland Solutions Group is seekingfull-time Road Inventory Technician Interns pursuing a bachelor’s or graduate degree in GIS, Forestry or other adjacent fields. The candidate must have effective communication and writing skills; be detail-oriented, organized, and reliable; and demonstrate a strong desire to learn. This internship opportunity includes on the job training, exposure to land management professionals, utilization of industry standard software such as ESRI field maps.

Primary Duties and Desired Qualifications:

  • Experience with ESRI data collection and processing platforms (ArcGIS Online, ESRI Field Maps)
    • Line (track) and point data collection
    • Filtering, sorting and organizing tabular data
    • Digitizing
    • Accurately portray field conditions through data collection and editing
    • Other GIS functions, such as snapping
  • Database experience, understanding databases, fields, domains
    • Attribution of features
    • Attention to data accuracy, data integrity and detail
  • Experience navigating in remote forested areas on rural roads
    • Experience driving a 4x4 vehicle on rural forest roads 
    • Experience reading, interpreting and navigating from a map in the field
  • Dedication to safety
    • Knowledge of safe forest navigation practices
    • Experience and ability to hike in steep, rugged terrain
    • Wildfire danger awareness 

Desired Academic and Professional Skills

  • Fluid mechanics, forest hydrology, geomorphology, geology and geo-mechanics, and forest engineering 
  • Forest and rural road inventory and management experience

Duration/Schedule 

Interns will be expected to work 40 hours a week for 10-12 weeks, from May through August. 

Compensation

  • Competitive hourly wage
  • If relocating, $500/month housing stipend provided 

Office Location  

  • N/A. Field work in various sites in California

 

DJ&A is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. 

DJ&A is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at careers@djanda.com.