SSOE Career Opportunities

About SSOE

SSOE Group is an international leader in providing comprehensive architectural and engineering services to diverse clients. For 60 years, we’ve applied our skill, creativity, and cutting-edge technology to solutions that enable them to meet their business goals.

• Named a “Best AEC Firm to Work For – 2007” by Building Design & Construction magazine
• Full-service architecture and engineering consulting firm
• Ranked 8th nationally among Engineering/Architecture firms (Building Design & Construction, 2006)
• Frontrunner in the practical utilization of Building Information Modeling. SSOE is aggressively implementing BIM to give our clients a competitive edge in terms of the quality, schedule, and cost of constructing and operating their processes and facilities.
• Utilizes creative project approaches such as design/build, EPCM, joint ventures, and MBE partnerships to access and manage a full range of services including procurement, construction management, construction, and facilities management
• Founded in 1948
• Global experience includes projects in 32 countries and 48 states
• Privately-owned
• Serving national and international clients from 18 locations worldwide

Locations Carlsbad, CA Cedar Rapids, IA Chicago, IL Cincinnati, OH Irvine, CA Kalamazoo, MI Lima, OH Midland, MI Nashville, TN Omaha, NE Phoenix, AZ Raleigh-Durham, NC St. Paul, MN Seattle, WA Shanghai, China Toledo, OH Troy, MI Washington, D.C.

Markets Alternative energy Automotive Biofuels Chemical Commercial Education Energy Food and beverage Glass Government Healthcare Manufacturing Mining and metals Personal care Pharmaceutical Retail Science and technology

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Careers at SSOE

It’s not difficult to describe an exceptional employee – talented, curious, collaborative, eager to learn, dedicated. If that describes you, we’re glad you’re here.

If you are looking for career growth, collaborative approach, great benefits, sharp coworkers, entrepreneurial spirit, a stable and growing firm, and the encouragement and tools to be successful...look no further. Thanks to our consistent growth, our goal is to increase our staff by 200 over the next year.

Here’s a statistic that says a lot about the kind of company we are – 94% employee retention. Our people are getting what they want and need from SSOE. We have a dynamic group that has worked together to achieve over 15% growth for each of the last three years.

A good way to find out about where we are going as a company is to read the recent issues of Dimensions and our press releases. We’re proud of our work and our people. Make SSOE the end of your search.

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Benefits


You’ll find SSOE’s benefits package reflects our creativity.

• Profit sharing
• 401(k) plans with company matching program
• Spot bonuses
• Team awards
• Incentive based bonuses
• Employee referral bonus
• Flexible benefits package
• Choice of three health insurance plans
• Dental and vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Long- and short-term disability
• Long-term care insurance
• Flex time
• Generous PTO - buy, sell or donate
• Flexible pre-tax spending accounts for medical and dependent care expenses
• College savings / 529 plan payroll deduction
• Tuition reimbursement
• An extensive training and development program
• Business-casual dress
• Free lifestyle coaches focused on smoking cessation and weight, cholesterol, blood pressure, stress, and fitness management
• Free disease management coaches focused on asthma, diabetes, coronary artery disease, congestive obstructive pulmonary disease, and chronic kidney disease
• Free counseling services including relationship, stress management, career development, and financial planning
• Professional licenses and certifications
• Discounts on recreation and travel
• Employee clubs
• Employee, family, and holiday events

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College Recruitment

Build your skills
If the thought of working on projects for Fortune 500 companies as well as up-and-coming small businesses excites you, sign your name on the dotted line! Why settle for working with one company when you can join SSOE and design facilities or processes for different companies all over the world?

Join a winning team
We just experienced our third straight year of 15% revenue growth and we’re looking to fill positions across the country. That means we’re offering attractive compensation packages, and once you’re on-board full time, you’ll share in the success through our industry leading benefits, profit-sharing, and 401(k) matching program available to all full time employees.

Step into the future
In our industry, technology is the tool that allows our employees’ brilliance to shine. We have a corporate initiative to perform 100% of our design work in 3D BIM by 2009 and we’re inviting you along for the ride. Don’t know this technology yet? We love eager learners and have a program in place to train you.

Never stop learning (without the homework)
We understand that any investment in our employees is an investment in our company so on average we spend 15% more on training per employee than our competition.

Our culture
At SSOE we are growth driven, high energy and embrace employees with an entrepreneurial spirit. If you enjoy working hard and playing hard, SSOE is the place for you!

Engage the world
At SSOE you may be on the phone with an office across the country one day and teaming with our China office on a fast-track 24/7 design project the next. Not only do we have offices across the country and in China, our projects span 48 states and 32 countries.

But what’s in it for me?
Bragging Rights!!! The opportunity to tell your friends and family that you helped design a world class facility or process for some of the most admired companies in the world. And in return, SSOE provides scholarship opportunities for co-ops & interns and as you continue your career at SSOE tuition reimbursement for full-time employees, industry leading benefits, profit-sharing, and eventually more opportunities for ownership than almost any design firm our size.

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Career Development

You can take your career so much further at SSOE. We strongly believe that learning is a lifelong process and we put our money where our mouth is — spending 15% more than our competition on training and development programs (ZweigWhite, 2006). This includes a well-defined tuition reimbursement program, a full-time training and development staff headed at the Director level, payment for outside seminars, and a full catalog of in-house training seminars.

Here’s just a sample of the in-house courses we offer, many of which qualify for CEUs and PDHs:

Computer Training Series

• Basic CAD Training
• CAD Beginner Plus
• CAD Upgrade (includes SSOE information)
• SSOE CAD Information (SBU Specific)
• Basic MicroStation
• New to MicroStation 2004 with AutoCAD Experience
• New to MicroStation 2004 with Previous MicroStation Experience
• New to SSOE with Previous MicroStation Experience
• MicroStation 3D

Career Enrichment

• Career development workshop
• Communication for professionals
• Delegating for results
• Developing your negotiation skills
• Stress management
• Time management
• Basic financial accounting at SSOE
• Employment law for managers

Training Series

• Getting Results - This program targets select employees and provides a roadmap for leadership and professional development. After a two day seminar, groups of five individuals are formed and given an assignment involving an actual SSOE business problem or opportunity that the group must research and solve. The group continues to meet each month for two hour coaching sessions. This program often runs over the course of a year and is completed in phases.

• Business Building by Design - This program is designed for those employees who participate in or have an impact on business development activities. It is a year-long, five part series that covers style, relationship building, sales strategy, the sales process, and a capstone project.

Webinars, Audio Conferences, and Lunch and Learns

• Being an informed health insurance consumer
• Engineering Ethics
• A/E Industry Trends
• Customer Service
• Business Development
• Marketing
• Positive Discipline
• Microsoft Windows, Word, and Excel Tips
• 401(k) Information and Planning

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Best AEC Firm To Work For



In their May 2007 issue Building Design + Construction Magazine named SSOE a "Best AEC Firm to Work For." This honor is given to the top nine Architecture, Engineering, and Construction firms in the nation and is a valuable third party endorsement of our efforts as we compete to attract and retain top talent to our firm in a tight architecture and engineering labor market.

The award was based on SSOE's holistic approach to the “total employment value proposition” we offer employees including:

• a creative benefits program based on flexible credits that can be applied to design an individualized package based on each employee’s need. This credit based system includes the ability to buy and sell vacation time, apply unused credits toward additional life insurance or long-term care insurance, and participate in a choice of three distinct health insurance plans.

• programs that enhance work-life balance including free access to counseling services and lifestyle and disease management coaches through third party suppliers.

• our training and development program which spends about 15% more than the industry average on programs that include in- and out-of-house training as well as tuition reimbursement programs for higher education.

Click here to read the entire article in BD&C and find out why SSOE was named a Best Firm to Work For.

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