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PROFILE
A personal approach: Grant Meyer CEO of AE2S (Grand Forks, ND), a civil/environmental engineering consulting firm specializing in drinking water, wastewater, and water resources.
By LIISA ANDREASSEN Correspondent
H e doesn’t think it’s one thing – but rather a combination of the “right things” – that recently landed AE2S in the top 10 of Zweig Group’s Best Firms To Work For list. Meyer, the company’s CEO, says the company looks to create great employee experiences and the opportunity to work on some incredible projects. LANDMARK PROJECTS, TRAINING, AND BENEFITS REAP LONG-TERM SUCCESS. AE2S is focused on water and building strong communities. For example, the Woodbury Project located in a suburb of the Minneapolis-St. Paul area was one that required an all-hands-on-deck approach – and employees rose to the occasion. The City of Woodbury hired AE2S as its lead project engineering firm to help address PFAS. The company implemented a near-term solution which involved designing and constructing a temporary water treatment plant, bringing four of seven wells back into service and ensuring ample production capacity to meet peak summer demand.
“The work we do here really matters to the world we live in, and that matters to our employees,” Meyer says. “They have the opportunity to make a positive difference in the world around them.” One thing the company has really focused on in the past couple of years is providing learning opportunities and career pathways to develop current and emerging leaders. It has taken a great amount of time levelling up its leadership and increased learning opportunities for not only managers, but the entire staff. AE2S’s “Leadership Matters,” program was created on the basis that leadership can come from anywhere – regardless of title or position. All staff can apply, but only 12 are admitted to the year-long leadership program. Based on the success of “Leadership Matters,” AE2S also developed another leadership development program for managers this past year called “Operations Matters” – specifically for operations managers and assistant operations managers – for all of its offices.
See A PERSONAL APPROACH, page 10
THE ZWEIG LETTER DECEMBER 16, 2024, ISSUE 1565
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