Engineering & Infrastructure Systems Analyst Intern

ENGINEERING & INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS ANALYST INTERN

ABOUT MORSBY, GORMAN, MCCARTHY LLC

Morsby, Gorman, McCarthy LLC develops interdisciplinary initiatives involving infrastructure, public policy, institutional coordination, research, finance, technology, and program development. The company emphasizes responsible analysis, evidence quality, clear documentation, and practical implementation planning.

ABOUT PROJECT GUARDIAN

Project Guardian is a Kenya-centered infrastructure pilot and fundability initiative. The project examines how infrastructure, institutional capacity, public policy, community needs, financing, risk, and implementation systems may be integrated into a credible development framework.

Project Guardian remains a planning, research, and program-development initiative. Internship work does not constitute licensed engineering, architecture, land surveying, environmental certification, legal advice, investment advice, government representation, or authorization to make commitments on behalf of the company or any external organization.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Engineering & Infrastructure Systems Analyst Intern will support supervised research and conceptual analysis concerning infrastructure systems, technical requirements, system interfaces, resilience, operations, maintenance, lifecycle considerations, and implementation dependencies.

The participant may help organize technical information, compare infrastructure concepts, map system relationships, develop preliminary requirements registers, research applicable standards, identify assumptions and dependencies, and translate complex technical subjects into clear materials for multidisciplinary review.

This is an educational analyst position. The participant will not independently design infrastructure, perform professional engineering calculations for implementation, approve technical specifications, select final sites or technologies, certify compliance, supervise construction, or issue documents for procurement, permitting, financing, or construction.

PROGRAM TERMS

Organization: Morsby, Gorman, McCarthy LLC
Program: Project Guardian
Position type: Unpaid, educational, project-based internship
Location: Remote
Schedule: Asynchronous-first, with scheduled supervisory meetings as reasonably necessary
Program dates: October 26, 2026–February 5, 2027

Expected commitment: Normally 5–10 hours per week
Holiday pause: December 19, 2026–January 3, 2027; no routine work is expected
Priority application deadline: October 9, 2026

Work exceeding 10 hours in a week requires advance written approval and ordinarily should not exceed approximately 15 hours. The internship does not create a promise or expectation of future employment.

EDUCATIONAL STRUCTURE

This is a structured, project-based learning experience. Participants receive defined learning objectives, supervised assignments, written feedback, revision opportunities, and exposure to multidisciplinary infrastructure, policy, research, finance, risk, data, and program-management work.

Participants will produce portfolio-appropriate work subject to confidentiality, data-security, attribution, professional-review, and release requirements.

Academic credit may be available only when approved by the participant’s institution. Participants are responsible for initiating their institution’s credit process, and Morsby, Gorman, McCarthy LLC will reasonably cooperate with required documentation and evaluations. Academic credit is not guaranteed and is not required to participate.

ROLE PURPOSE

The purpose of this internship is to help the participant develop practical experience examining infrastructure as an interconnected system rather than as a collection of isolated assets.

The participant will learn to consider how technical components interact with operations, maintenance, energy, water, transportation, communications, environmental conditions, institutional capacity, financing, procurement, public policy, risk, and community needs.

The role emphasizes careful research, systems thinking, traceable assumptions, interdisciplinary communication, and appropriate recognition of the limits of preliminary technical analysis.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

By the end of the internship, the participant should be better able to:

Apply introductory or intermediate systems-thinking methods to infrastructure questions.

Identify system components, interfaces, dependencies, constraints, and failure points.

Translate project objectives into preliminary and nonbinding technical or functional requirements.

Distinguish needs, requirements, design assumptions, alternatives, constraints, risks, and decisions.

Research technical standards, guidance documents, and comparable infrastructure approaches.

Evaluate source authority, applicability, currency, jurisdiction, and limitations.

Compare infrastructure concepts using transparent criteria without representing the comparison as a final engineering decision.

Consider constructability, operability, maintainability, accessibility, resilience, safety, and lifecycle implications at a conceptual level.

Document assumptions, open questions, evidence gaps, and matters requiring professional review.

Communicate technical information to policy, finance, research, operations, and nontechnical audiences.

Incorporate supervisory and multidisciplinary feedback into revised deliverables.

Recognize when a question exceeds the scope of an intern or requires licensed professional judgment.

POTENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Assignments may include:

Reviewing authorized project materials to identify infrastructure objectives, constraints, and unresolved technical questions.

Supporting preliminary research concerning infrastructure systems relevant to Project Guardian.

Preparing high-level system maps, functional diagrams, interface matrices, or dependency registers.

Developing preliminary, nonbinding requirements or criteria under supervision.

Organizing technical assumptions, constraints, data needs, decisions, and open questions.

Researching publicly available standards, codes, technical guidance, and comparable projects.

Documenting whether a source is mandatory, advisory, jurisdiction-specific, outdated, preliminary, or otherwise limited.

Comparing infrastructure concepts or technologies using approved criteria.

Supporting preliminary lifecycle, maintenance, operability, resilience, or implementation analysis.

Identifying potential single points of failure, interface risks, capacity constraints, or sequencing dependencies for further review.

Examining how infrastructure concepts interact with policy, financing, procurement, institutional capacity, environmental context, and service-delivery objectives.

Preparing technical research summaries, decision-support tables, diagrams, or briefing materials.

Supporting traceability between project needs, preliminary requirements, evidence, and proposed evaluation criteria.

Reviewing documents for internal consistency, unsupported technical claims, missing units, unclear terminology, or conflicting assumptions.

Coordinating with GIS, data, finance, research, risk, communications, and program-management participants under supervision.

Revising deliverables in response to written or verbal feedback.

Contributing to final learning reflections and approved portfolio documentation.

Assignments will be calibrated to the participant’s education and demonstrated experience. More advanced tasks will be assigned only when appropriate supervision and review are available.

POSSIBLE EDUCATIONAL OUTPUTS

Depending on project needs and available information, supervised outputs may include:

A preliminary infrastructure systems overview.

A functional decomposition or system-context diagram.

An interface or dependency matrix.

A preliminary requirements register.

An assumptions, constraints, and open-questions log.

A standards and technical-guidance research memorandum.

A conceptual alternatives-comparison matrix.

A lifecycle, maintenance, resilience, or operability checklist.

A technical risk or evidence-gap register.

A requirements-traceability prototype.

A concise technical briefing for a multidisciplinary audience.

A reproducibility or source note documenting research methods.

A revised final analytical package.

A reflective memorandum describing methods learned, limitations encountered, feedback received, and revisions completed.

All outputs are preliminary, educational, and nonbinding unless expressly approved otherwise in writing.

SUPERVISION, FEEDBACK, AND REVISION

The participant will receive:

An initial orientation to Project Guardian, role boundaries, confidentiality expectations, and approved systems.

Defined assignments with intended learning outcomes.

Access to relevant project materials on a need-to-know basis.

A designated supervisor or project lead.

Periodic check-ins appropriate to the assignment.

Written or documented feedback on substantive work.

Reasonable opportunities to revise selected deliverables.

A concluding assessment or learning review when required by the program or an approved academic-credit arrangement.

The participant is expected to communicate technical uncertainty, conflicting evidence, missing information, safety concerns, professional-scope questions, and capacity limitations promptly.

PERFORMANCE AND LEARNING ASSESSMENT

Assessment may consider:

Quality and organization of technical research.

Accuracy of source attribution and documentation.

Appropriate use of systems-thinking methods.

Recognition of interfaces, constraints, dependencies, and lifecycle considerations.

Clear separation of evidence, assumptions, estimates, scenarios, and recommendations.

Recognition of matters requiring licensed or specialist review.

Quality and clarity of diagrams, matrices, registers, and written analysis.

Responsiveness to supervision and feedback.

Reliability, organization, and version control.

Improvement between draft and revised work.

Compliance with confidentiality, safety, attribution, and role-boundary requirements.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Applicants may be pursuing or have completed education in fields such as:

Civil engineering.

Environmental engineering.

Mechanical engineering.

Electrical engineering.

Systems engineering.

Industrial engineering.

Construction engineering or construction management.

Transportation, water-resources, energy, telecommunications, or infrastructure engineering.

Engineering management.

Architecture, urban planning, or environmental science.

A related interdisciplinary technical field.

Helpful experience may include:

Engineering fundamentals or systems analysis.

Infrastructure research or conceptual planning.

Requirements development or requirements management.

Technical standards and literature research.

Process mapping, systems diagrams, decision matrices, or risk registers.

Microsoft Excel, diagramming software, computer-aided design tools, modeling software, GIS, or project-management systems.

Lifecycle, reliability, resilience, maintenance, or asset-management concepts.

Technical writing and multidisciplinary communication.

Careful citation, documentation, and file-management practices.

Interest in infrastructure, public policy, international development, or Kenya-centered research.

Applicants are not expected to possess every listed qualification. Demonstrated curiosity, analytical discipline, willingness to learn, and respect for professional limits are important.

TECHNICAL RESEARCH AND SOURCE REQUIREMENTS

The participant must:

Use credible, traceable, and appropriately authorized sources.

Record source titles, publishers, dates, links or identifiers, and relevant limitations.

Distinguish binding legal or regulatory requirements from voluntary standards, general guidance, and illustrative practices.

Avoid assuming that a standard from one jurisdiction automatically applies in another.

Confirm units, definitions, time periods, boundary conditions, and other material technical details.

Avoid presenting manufacturer claims or unverified secondary summaries as independent evidence.

Identify outdated, incomplete, conflicting, or jurisdictionally uncertain information.

Clearly label preliminary calculations, conceptual estimates, assumptions, and scenarios.

Escalate safety-critical questions or matters requiring licensed professional judgment.

Maintain sufficient documentation for another reviewer to understand how a conclusion was developed.

SAFETY AND PROFESSIONAL-BOUNDARY REQUIREMENTS

The participant may not independently:

Produce or approve construction-ready designs.

Sign or seal engineering documents.

Specify final structural, mechanical, electrical, civil, environmental, or safety requirements.

Certify compliance with a law, regulation, code, permit, or professional standard.

Conduct field inspections, site investigations, laboratory testing, or hazardous activities.

Direct contractors, construction personnel, equipment operators, or public authorities.

Approve final equipment, technology, material, vendor, or site selections.

Provide safety instructions for operational use.

Represent conceptual analysis as professional engineering advice.

Make binding technical, financial, procurement, or regulatory commitments.

Any work requiring professional licensure, official certification, field verification, or regulatory approval must be reviewed and completed by appropriately qualified professionals.

No participant should undertake field activity, physical testing, site access, drone operation, surveying, community data collection, or contact with public authorities unless separately authorized and appropriately supervised.

ENGINEERING CALCULATIONS AND MODELS

Any calculations or models assigned during the internship are educational and preliminary. They must include, as applicable:

Defined purposes and intended uses.

Sources and input assumptions.

Units and conversion methods.

Methodological references.

Boundary conditions and exclusions.

Sensitivity to material assumptions.

Known limitations.

Version information.

Review status.

A clear indication that the output is not approved for construction, procurement, operations, financing, or regulatory reliance.

Participants must not create false precision or use unsupported assumptions to fill material evidence gaps.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND AUTOMATED TOOLS

The participant may use approved digital or artificial-intelligence tools only in accordance with supervisory instructions and applicable confidentiality requirements.

AI-generated calculations, code, specifications, standards summaries, citations, diagrams, technical claims, or recommendations must not be treated as verified. The participant remains responsible for checking sources, calculations, units, logic, applicability, and limitations and for documenting material tool use when required.

Confidential, personal, proprietary, security-sensitive, or restricted information may not be entered into an unapproved external system.

CONFIDENTIALITY, OWNERSHIP, AND PORTFOLIO USE

Participants may receive access to confidential, proprietary, pre-decisional, or restricted information. Access will be limited according to role and project need.

Work created within the internship may be subject to confidentiality, intellectual-property, attribution, security, and data-license requirements. Participants may not independently publish, distribute, reuse, or present project materials.

Portfolio use may be permitted only after prior written authorization and may require redaction, aggregation, modification, delayed release, or use of a separately approved public version.

APPLICATION MATERIALS

Applicants should submit:

A current resume.

A cover letter explaining their interest in engineering, infrastructure systems, and the Project Guardian learning experience.

One relevant work sample, if available.

A work sample may include a technical memorandum, engineering class project, system diagram, requirements analysis, infrastructure assessment, design report, research paper, analytical spreadsheet, modeling exercise, decision matrix, or comparable material. Applicants may redact confidential information.

Applicants without a formal portfolio may submit relevant academic or independent work demonstrating technical reasoning, systems thinking, research, or analytical communication.

Any application exercise will be limited in scope, used only for candidate evaluation, and will not be used as uncompensated production work.

SELECTION PROCESS

Initial review may be conducted asynchronously based on submitted application materials. Finalists may be invited to a limited interview or asked for clarification concerning their experience, availability, learning goals, or work sample.

References may be requested selectively. Submission of an application does not guarantee an interview or placement.

ELIGIBILITY AND INSTITUTIONAL CONDITIONS

Applicants may be current students, recent graduates, graduate students, or other early-career candidates for whom the educational structure is appropriate.

Participants seeking academic credit must obtain approval from their institution. Any institutional agreement, faculty-supervision requirement, learning contract, or evaluation form must be disclosed promptly.

International students and other applicants whose participation may be subject to immigration, institutional, tax, or work-authorization requirements are responsible for confirming those requirements with qualified institutional or legal advisers. Morsby, Gorman, McCarthy LLC does not provide legal or immigration advice.

EQUAL CONSIDERATION AND ACCOMMODATIONS

Morsby, Gorman, McCarthy LLC considers applicants without unlawful discrimination. Reasonable accommodations related to the application process or internship structure may be requested and will be considered consistent with applicable requirements and the essential learning activities of the program.

NON-DISPLACEMENT AND EDUCATIONAL NATURE

This internship is designed as a supervised educational experience. Intern assignments are intended to complement, rather than displace, the work of employees, contractors, licensed engineers, architects, technical specialists, or public authorities.

Participants will not independently approve final designs, certify technical compliance, direct regulated work, authorize procurement or construction, make binding representations, or exercise professional authority on behalf of Morsby, Gorman, McCarthy LLC, Project Guardian, or any external stakeholder.