Today, we celebrate everything that makes SSOE Group a great place to work! From our visionary leadership and clear purpose to our vibrant culture and, most importantly, our incredible team. This year, an impressive 92% of employees rated SSOE as a great place to work, significantly higher than the 57% benchmark for the average U.S. company. The top reason cited? Our amazing people. At SSOE, we know we’re at our best when our employees are thriving. That’s why we prioritize their health and happiness, ensuring every person on our team can thrive through programs like our hybrid work model, Employee Resource Groups, recognition platforms, and more. Joining Great Place To Work US in this celebration, we're humbled our certification is based on direct feedback from our team. It’s truly rewarding to know our employees feel valued and understand their personal impact matters. We’re #GPTWCertified because of you! #chooseSSOE #GreatPlaceToWork #CertificationNationDay
At SSOE, we help you map your professional growth and highly encourage our employees to pursue professional licensures and certifications. To support this, we cover the costs of preparation classes and exam fees and also offer paid time off for taking the exams. Additionally, employees who pass their exams receive a recognition bonus as a token of our appreciation. #PressRelease #chooseSSOE
Perspective in focus: We'll be at Autodesk University next week in San Diego where we're sponsors, presenters, and exhibitors at the multinational AEC software company's Design & Make Conference! Find us at Booth #152 and experience "The Power of Perspective." We'll demonstrate how diversity and technology work in tandem at SSOE to fuel groundbreaking architectural and engineering solutions. And make sure to attend our thought leaders' sessions showcasing our innovative use of Autodesk Forma and Bridge, as well as an insightful R&D lab case study on Autodesk Construction Cloud. #AU2024 #PressRelease
Innovating inclusion: SSOE's Candice Harrison, our Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, will be at the Ohio Transportation Engineering Conference (OTEC) in Columbus this week to share the positive and profound impact Employee Resource Groups have had on our organizational culture. Candice will join HDR Engineering's Abraham Carrillo and Shaefer's Greg Riley as part of ACEC Ohio to present "Empowering Change from Within—How Employee Resource Groups Fuel Innovation and Strengthen Organizational Culture" tomorrow, Wednesday, October 9th at 10 a.m. EST. #PressRelease #SSOEcolumbus
¡Fiesta in the Break Room! We added some extra spice to Hispanic Heritage Month across the U.S. and Mexico with cook-offs in our offices. In today’s interconnected world, working with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures is the norm. By better understanding various cultures, histories, and values, we can deepen our connections with colleagues and enrich our work experience. With 20 members from four countries and a presence in six offices, our ¡HoLA! Employee Resource Group promoted cultural exchange in everyone’s favorite way—through food! Local office Employee Clubs organized their own respective cook-offs, with each winner receiving a $25 gift card. But the real treat? The piñata filled with Mexican candy. #HispanicHeritageMonth #chooseSSOE
No unplanned downtime, no problem. SSOE's Witt Parrish, Senior Mechanical Engineer in our Nashville office, will co-lead a Plant Engineering webcast alongside Life Cycle Engineering's John Cray on Wednesday, November 16th at 1 p.m. EST. Their webcast, titled "Predictive maintenance: What is condition monitoring, and is it a good choice?" will discuss how to avoid costly, unplanned downtime by leveraging condition monitoring in a reliability or predictive maintenance. #PressRelease #SSOEsoutheast
Pioneering pCAM Production: We’re participating in a panel discussion alongside our client Ascend Elements and partners Turner Construction Company and Kokosing at next week’s The Battery Show in Detroit (be sure to stop by and see us at Booth #5644). SSOE’s Matt Bierschbach, Principal Business Leader and project manager on our groundbreaking Ascend Elements Apex 1 project, will join Turner’s William Kidd, Kokosing’s Jeff Hollback, and Ascend Elements’ Roger Lin for a session titled “Building North America’s First Commercial Scale pCAM Manufacturing Facility” on Wednesday, October 9th. Moderated by SSOE’s David Semproch, Principal Division Manager of Facilities Northern Operations, the panel will explore key lessons learned during the first 24 months of constructing Ascend Elements’ first-of-its-kind Apex 1 EV battery material manufacturing campus in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. #PressRelease #SSOEsoutheast
Today, we had the pleasure of welcoming our friends from TARTA to our world headquarters in Toledo. They joined Jennifer Breault, Senior Architect and Chair of SSOE’s Sustainable Design Strategy Group, in leading a lunch and learn session for employees and launching the SSOE + TARTA Challenge. During our lunch hour, we explored the modern amenities TARTA offers to Toledo-area public transit users. Whether for sustainability, cost savings, leisure, or various other reasons, TARTA’s services cater to a wide range of needs. Our CEO Vince DiPofi, who commuted to the office via TARTA today and joined us for lunch, continues to be impressed by the transit authority’s upgrades and user-friendly experience. As we wrapped up, Jen announced an exciting challenge from our Sustainable Design Strategy Group encouraging employees to download TARTA’s intuitive apps and use public transit at least four times in October. This friendly competition aims to inspire similar initiatives across our network of offices. #chooseSSOE
See yourself at SSOE! We’ve been busy meeting emerging professionals at career fairs across the nation from California to Ohio! Our experts were on-site at … • San Jose State University • Tennessee State University • Prairie View A&M University • Kennesaw State University • Bowling Green State University … engaging with students, workshopping resumes, and even touring campus. Many of our technical experts began as co-ops or interns and take pride in our program being a conduit for full-time employment within SSOE. In the past three years, we’ve hired over 200 co-ops and interns, offering benefits like scholarships, tuition reimbursement, and licensure / professional registration support. And people who join SSOE tend to stay with SSOE—as proven by our unmatched turnover rate. Catch us on your campus to see why! #chooseSSOE
Fast-tracking EV innovation and building a pipeline of talent for the future: Our recent collaboration with Hyundai Motor Group North America, the Technical College System of Georgia, Georgia Quick Start, and other stakeholders reached a major milestone last week with the topping out of the state-of-the-art Hyundai Mobility Training Center of Georgia. This 90,000 SF facility, located next to Hyundai’s first dedicated EV mass-production “metaplant” in the U.S., will feature cutting-edge technologies along with classrooms, labs, and manufacturing spaces to support Hyundai’s ambitious vision for the future and benefit the citizens of Georgia. Set to be completed in late 2025, this facility represents the largest economic investment in Georgia, solidifying the state’s leadership in EV manufacturing and promoting Hyundai’s vision of becoming a global smart mobility solution provider. #SSOEsoutheast #WorkforceDevelopment
