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Corporate Services Intern Summer 2025 (Hybrid- 3 Days in Office)

AT Freddie Mac
Freddie Mac

Corporate Services Intern Summer 2025 (Hybrid- 3 Days in Office)

McLean, VA

At Freddie Mac, you will do important work to build a better housing finance system and you'll be part of a team helping to make homeownership and rental housing more accessible and affordable across the nation.

We will accept applications for this position until 2/14

At Freddie Mac, you will do important work to build a better housing finance system and you'll be part of a team helping to make homeownership and rental housing more accessible and affordable across the nation.

Position Overview:

Are you interested in a summer internship experience based on business needs and your individual preferences? Corporate Services has a unique opportunity for those who are studying hotel & restaurant management, engineering & facilities management, or commercial real estate! Mentoring and performance feedback are provided in support of your continued development as you shape the final years of your higher education experience and prepare for the beginning of a career.

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This is an outstanding opportunity to combine classrooms lessons with real business applications, working alongside top-tier teams across the Corporate Services Division. This is a rotation style internship providing hands-on experiences in the following functional areas:

  • Property Development & Real Estate
  • Security Management
  • Engineering & Facilities
  • Business Process Management
  • Corporate Amenities [e.g. cafés, coffee shops, pantries, campus fitness, catering, meetings & event AV, mail & reprographic services]

Your Impact:

This 12-week internship program will be customized to best fit the academic concentration of the final candidate while balancing the then current Division projects in support of a unique, challenging and exciting experience. The Corporate Services intern will gain exposure to senior leadership, engaged in annual budget development and capital planning, and support strategic projects. Goals and objectives will be established with each functional area business leader at the start of department rotation to enhance an effective partnership. Here is an overview of each of the functional areas that are in the rotation and what to expect:

Property Development & Real Estate:

The intern will take an active role assisting the team in the timely and efficient delivery of projects through phases of construction including project justification, collecting business requirements, site survey programming, budgeting, scheduling, design, value engineering, construction administration, move logistics.

Security Management:

The intern will gain insight and exposure to the threat analysis process and general risk management. They would learn to identify vulnerabilities, examine potential threats associated with those vulnerabilities, and evaluate the resulting security and infrastructure risks to Freddie Mac facilities. The assessment process would include the following:

  • Local on-site visits
  • Interviews with site management and employees
  • Reviews of historical and predictive crime data, projections, and trends.
  • Guard services
  • Security systems (access control, intrusion, and CCTV)
  • Protection of high value items or locations
  • Security-related policies, procedures, and methods
  • Natural threats including historical data concerning frequency of occurrence such as high wind, floods, or earthquakes
  • Facility support systems (e.g., gas, electricity, emergency power generation).

Engineering and Facilities:

The intern will gain insight into the following items:

  • Understanding the effort required to maintain 14 Facilities, 3.5Msqft of Class A Office Building
  • G&A budget process to Capital improvement life cycle tracking
  • Process of maintaining a variety of disciplines from janitorial, landscaping, structural to IAQ, critical infrastructure, cabling and electrical generation
  • Facility sustainability, Risk avoidance and the skills vital to succeed in Facilities Management

Business Process Management:

The intern will work directly with our team to collaborate and gain hands on experience with department and divisional planning and budgets, change management, corporate communications, corporate research and reporting analytics.

Corporate Amenities:

The intern will work with the teams in Amenities [catering & conference services, cafes and coffee shops, fitness center, dry cleaning & laundry, vending and pantries], Corporate Meeting & Events, Audio Visual Technology & Production and Mail, Shipping & Reprographic Services. These are core services that support the organization to complete the mission and support staff while they are on-site. Many of the services are outsourced, so the intern will gain an understanding of tenant contracting practices, Service Level Agreements, leading to KPIs, contract management best practices, budgeting, retail operations and programming, the nuances of customer service in a corporate environment, event connectivity in a hybrid work model and, off & on-site event logistics management.

Qualifications:

  • Currently pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree in an associated field
  • Graduating between December 2025 through May 2026
  • Available to work from May - August 2024

Keys to Success in this Role:

  • Ability to optimally communicate, verbal and written
  • Leadership skills
  • Willingness and ability to proactively learn and grow
  • Academic excellence in core curriculum as it pertains to facilities management, hospitality and real estate.
  • Technological capability with Microsoft products - Excel, Visio, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint
  • Ability to get results in a team-based environment
  • Project management understanding Comfortable working in fast pace, highly collaborative, environment

Interns are paid at a set, non-negotiable hourly rate. The hourly rate for this role is $32/hr.

Current Freddie Mac employees please apply through the internal career site.

Today, Freddie Mac makes home possible for one in four home borrowers and is one of the largest sources of financing for multifamily housing. Join our smart, creative and dedicated team and you'll do important work for the housing finance system and make a difference in the lives of others.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will ensure that individuals with differing abilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

CA Applicants: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Notice to External Search Firms: Freddie Mac partners with BountyJobs for contingency search business through outside firms. Resumes received outside the BountyJobs system will be considered unsolicited and Freddie Mac will not be obligated to pay a placement fee. If interested in learning more, please visit www.BountyJobs.com and register with our referral code: MAC.

Time-type:Full time

FLSA Status:Non-Exempt

Freddie Mac offers a comprehensive total rewards package to include competitive compensation and market-leading benefit programs. Information on these benefit programs is available on our Careers site.

This position has an annualized market-based salary range of $54,000 - $82,000 . All interns positions are paid at an hourly rate, which can be found in the body of the job description.

Client-provided location(s): McLean, VA, USA
Job ID: Freddie_Mac-JR14470
Employment Type: Intern