MLF is excited to announce the position of Site Operations Intern.
Community First! Village is a 51-acre master-planned community that provides affordable, permanent housing, and a supportive community for the chronically homeless in Travis County. The Site Operations Department is responsible for overseeing the design, construction, and maintenance of 51 acres of existing community and a 127 acre expansion currently under construction. The Site Operations Summer Intern is an integral part of the Site Operations Department. The primary role of the Site Operations Summer Intern is to provide information management support for projects at Community First! Village.
This is a part-time, non-exempt internship position working within the Site Operations Department and reporting to the Design Manager. Due to the nature and requirements of the position, hours are flexible to fit needs, but are typically 20 hours Monday-Friday. The Site Operations Summer Intern will office at the Community First! Village located at 9116 Hog Eye Road, Austin, TX 78724.
Download Job Description PDF • Posted 03/23/26
Founded in 1998, Mobile Loaves & Fishes (MLF) is a Christian social outreach ministry that empowers communities into a lifestyle of service with the homeless. The organization’s innovative Community First! Village is the country’s largest master planned development designed specifically for men and women who are coming out of chronic homelessness, and has become a national model replicated by other organizations in different cities. With the support of tens of thousands of volunteers and more than 6.5 million meals served through its Truck Ministry, MLF has also grown to become the largest prepared feeding program to the homeless in Central Texas and has spawned similar food truck programs across the country.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Identify and document products and finishes used at all commercial buildings
- Inventory and tag commercial furniture used in all commercial buildings
- Develop and update as-built maps to accurately reflect existing site conditions
- Support re-organization of as-built project libraries in MS Sharepoint
- Assist with procurement of owner-provided scope (furniture, equipment, signage, etc) for commercial buildings at Burleson site
- Attend MLF staff meetings and events.
- Other Duties & Responsibilities as needed
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities & Principles:
- MLF is a faith-based organization whose ideals and philosophy come directly from the Gospel of Jesus Christ. As an organization, we strive to reflect this precept in our communications, both internally and externally.
- Commitment to serving those who have experienced homelessness and personal alignment with MLF’s vision, mission, core values, and goals.
- Preference for students currently pursuing a degree in architecture, interior design, architectural engineering, or construction management. Students in other degree areas are encouraged to apply if other skills are met.
- Strong design sensibility and ability to represent the aesthetic goals of CFV’s built environment.
- Strong organizational, prioritization, and time management skills.
- Excellent verbal, written, and graphic communication.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel. Proficiency in Microsoft Sharepoint, Adobe Creative Cloud, and Bluebeam are desired but not a requirement to apply.
- Ability to creatively problem-solve when faced with unexpected or unique challenges.
- Must have a valid driver’s license.
Learning Opportunities:
- Strengthen skills in construction software such as Bluebeam and Excel.
- Gain familiarity with the types of architectural products and finishes used in commercial buildings.
- Apply organizational skills to develop information management processes that will allow the department to function more efficiently.
- Gain familiarity with design, construction, and maintenance at multiple scales, ranging from tiny homes to community buildings to site infrastructure.
Program Information:
- Estimated length of program: 10 weeks beginning Summer 2026
Work Environment & Physical Demands:
- Ability to work in an office setting with adjustable chairs and desks.
- Ability to move around the site, primarily within commercial buildings. Excessive time outdoors will be avoided due to high summer temperatures.
Our Purpose & Vision
We empower communities into a lifestyle of service with the homeless.
Goals
- Transform the way people view the stereotype of those who find themselves homeless
- Reconnect the homeless to self, family and community
- Help the chronically homeless rediscover and utilize their God-given talents to do purposeful work
- Connect human to human, heart to heart through the fellowship of food and hospitality
- Inspire people into a lifestyle of abundance by giving their best first
Belief Statement
The vision is supported by belief statements centered on our belief that homelessness is the result of a profound, catastrophic loss of family:
- God, infinitely perfect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life
- By virtue of being created by God in His image, we are all called to live in community and relationship with Him through each other
- The family is the original cell of social life
- You shall love your neighbor as yourself
- All members of the human family are equal in dignity
- The Lord God took the man and settled him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and care for it. Gen 2:15
Our Mission
We provide food and clothing, cultivate community and promote dignity to our homeless brothers and sisters in need.
Core Values
MLF is committed to fostering a culture that prioritizes relational connection. We believe there is opportunity in every aspect of our work to be relational in a highly transactional world. In this culture, transactions are means to relational ends, not the other way around.
This begins with the countercultural love poured out by Jesus Christ and grows as imperfect individuals strive to show this love to each other human-to-human, heart-to-heart.
Each individual’s openness to the journey of their own personal growth is essential in building our relational culture, and we believe this culture flourishes as we each continuously strive to more fully embody these four core values:
- Faith: We define Faith as the foundational belief that our world and all our work belong to God. This allows us to engage our work with joy and lightheartedness, knowing that we are not ultimately in control.
- Humility: We define Humility as rightly viewing oneself as a single piece of a grander story. This humility leads to a view of oneself that is neither too high nor too low.
- Generous Spirit: We define a Generous Spirit as a readiness to give more grace, mercy, and hospitality than is necessary or expected. This posture allows us to see others for who they are, not what they do.
- Integrity: We define Integrity as a wholehearted commitment to doing right by God, ourselves, and others. This wholeheartedness shows itself in consistently choosing honesty, responsibility and ownership in all actions and decisions.
MLF is a faith-based organization with its ideals and philosophy coming directly from the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.
MLF is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Personnel are chosen based on ability without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, genetics, disability, marital status, or sexual orientation in accordance with federal and state law.
Learn more
Mobile Loaves & Fishes (MLF) is a social outreach ministry that has been empowering communities into a lifestyle of service with the homeless since 1998. But that’s just our elevator pitch. Here are a few places to start if you want to get to know us better:
About MLF >
Our Leadership Team >
Media Coverage >
Community First! Village >
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There are so many different ways to join us and help us empower communities into a lifestyle of service with the homeless.
