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HEADQUARTERS: Pottstown, PA NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES: 65 YEAR FOUNDED: 2005 OFFICE LOCATIONS:
Pottstown, PA
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Pensacola, FL
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The Cedarville Engineering Group team at the firm’s headquarters in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.
MARKETS:
Local, state, and federal government
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have an all-hands-on-DISC training once a year to learn about different communication and behavioral styles. “It’s so interesting to see the skeptics of this type of training have that ‘aha’ moment,” she says. “Once they realize that they can use this knowledge in their professional and personal lives, they get it and appreciate it even more.” As a 2024 winner of Zweig Group’s Best Firm to Work For Award, Barkasi says CEG decided to pursue the application for the award designation to get staff feedback. “Our mission is to be a great place for great people to work,” she says. “The feedback we received from staff during this application process was very helpful. We learned that more junior staff were interested in stronger career path opportunities and more flexible options for time off. We’ve addressed those issues and will continue to pursue this designation in the future to drive the firm forward.” As part of being a great place to work, Barkasi says that she ensures leaders don’t have too many people to manage. Teams are made up anywhere from five to eight people – no more. “It’s important that managers not just manage, but lead. I want them to have time to be mentors and coaches too,” she says. “They also work to set professional growth opportunities and have collaborative goal setting between them and their team members. From infrastructure and technology to sustainability and problem-solving, engineers shape our future in countless ways.”
SHAPING THE FUTURE, from page 9
be happening quickly. CEG’s clients are local, state, and federal government agencies as well as commercial, industrial companies, and educational institutions throughout the country. To meet growth demands they recently brought both IT and HR in-house. They’ve also made some key hires and says they have some real “professional horsepower now.” “With uncertainty in some other sectors we were in a good position to recruit top people,” she says. “We’re a small business, but we’re growing fast. I’m confident that infrastructure work will continue to be strong.” She admits that with that growth does come some challenges, but she and her team are facing them head on. “Strategic hires can put a strain on cash flow for a smaller firm, but it will pay off in the end,” she says. As she’s grown the firm she’s learned some lessons along the way – one of the most important being, “when a wrong fit is in the wrong seat, don’t wait to make a move.” “We’ve been through a lot during our 15 years in business,” she says. “But as long as you learn from those mistakes, it’s OK. Years back, I hesitated to let someone go who was in a key role because I was concerned about reallocating staff. It ended up having a detrimental effect on the whole group. We lost clients and staff. We learned that lesson the hard way and it won’t happen again.” That’s one of the reasons why CEG puts a real focus on training and communication. They
Commercial
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Industrial
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Educational
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SERVICES:
Aerial inspections and mapping
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Construction
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Construction management
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Engineering
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Environmental consulting Facilities management
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Geospatial and GIS
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Grant services
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Municipal engineering
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Stormwater management and MS4
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Surveying
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Water and wastewater
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THE ZWEIG LETTER JUNE 2, 2025, ISSUE 1588
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