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HEADQUARTERS: Pottstown, PA NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES: 278 YEAR FOUNDED: 1989 OFFICE LOCATIONS:
Newark, DE
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Freehold, NJ
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Lakewood, NJ
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than 50 percent of the RIF employees returned, including three who are now in their ownership group. “This was an extremely expensive lesson to learn and even jeopardized the ability of TPD to remain an independent entity, but now we know,” he says. Right now, TPD’s top challenge is to find people to support company growth. Over the last three years, the company has:
recruiting and “Lunch and Learn” events can be held at these locales. Sponsors six Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS) chapters and its sponsorships support college scholarships awarded by each WTS chapter. Is a named sponsor of a $2,500 annual scholarship awarded by the Philadelphia chapter of COMTO (Conference of Minority Transportation Officials).
Lawrenceville, NJ
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Runnemede, NJ
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Warren, NJ
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Melville, NY
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Bethlehem, PA
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Doylestown, PA
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Harrisburg, PA
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More than doubled the number of colleges it recruits from to fill entry-level positions Tripled its space in their Philadelphia office in the last five years to accommodate the desire of young employees, from co-ops to junior level staff, who mostly want to live in the city.
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Philadelphia, PA
BUILDING A WINNING TEAM. Currently, TPD is focused on building a winning team to win public sector projects. Despite being an ENR 400 firm and in business for 36 years, it’s still the new kid on the block in many respects. “Engineers are risk averse which carries forward to those evaluating firms in a Qualification-Based Selection process,” Johnson explains. “This risk aversity combined with competing against 30-40 firms for every project creates barriers to entry; overcoming these barriers is challenging. So, it’s extremely gratifying when TPD is not only selected for a first project with a particular entity, but also when it’s selected for larger, more complex projects for that same entity.” When asked if there’s anything that keeps him up at night, Johnson says you can ask his wife. “She’s amazed that I sleep so well,” he says. “We’ve lived through four recessions and navigated two major partner buyouts, emerging each time even more resilient and formidable than before.” That’s winning.
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Pittsburgh, PA
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Pottstown, PA
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■ West Chester, PA MARKETS: TPD operates primarily in the eastern United States, providing civil engineering for public and private clients SERVICES:
■ Filled five positions with recruiters. “We also took our employee referral bonus program and put it into overdrive with referral bonuses now up to $20,000 for hard-to-fill positions,” Johnson says. DEI also plays an important role in recruitment. The company has an active DEI committee that complies with all federal laws. It meets twice a month and to date, it has effectively expanded the pool of candidates to fill positions. The committee:
Highway design
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Bridge design and inspection
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Transportation planning
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Traffic signals and ITS
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Attends career fairs at HBCUs and hosts “Lunch and Learn” events with professional societies at these schools. Performs research to identifies the most diverse civil engineering programs within a 100-mile radius of each office so
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CM/CI
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Multimodal design
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Environmental
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Expert witness
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THE ZWEIG LETTER AUGUST 25, 2025, ISSUE 1599
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