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KLJ team members, John Crawford, Joe DeVore, and Paul Glaser will be speaking at the upcoming Minnesota Transportation Conference & Expo (MTC&E) on May 15-17 in Saint Paul.

KLJ Engineering LLC (KLJ), is proud to welcome Tom Nixon as a Project Pursuit Manager within our Transportation team. Nixon is based in our Saint Paul, Minn. office and has more than 10 years of experience working with the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) on infrastructure projects, stakeholder engagement, project management, and various policies and procedures.

KLJ Engineering LLC (KLJ), is pleased to announce Joe DeVore has been promoted to Traffic Supervisor within the Transportation team.

KLJ Engineering (KLJ) is pleased to announce that Chad Petersen, Senior Project Manager in Valley City, was recently honored with the 2022 North Country Trail Association’s (NCTA) Trailblazer Award. The award recognizes businesses and individuals who represent a forward-thinking vision and demonstrate invaluable support to the NCTA and the North Country National Scenic Trail (NCNST), the longest trail in the National Trail System stretching 4,800 miles across eight states from North Dakota to Vermont.

KLJ Engineering (KLJ) is proud to announce that KLJ, the Rosebud Sioux Tribe Transportation Program, and Loiseau Construction, Inc. were recently recognized by the American Council of Engineering Companies of South Dakota (ACEC/SD) and the South Dakota Engineering Society (SDES). The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Route 7 to US Hwy 83 Improvement Project, Phase 1 was honored with the 2022 SDES Black Hills Central Chapter’s Outstanding Engineering Achievement Award.

KLJ Engineering LLC (KLJ), is proud to announce that Bryan Larson, Jason Reimer, and Dillon McLain have recently been promoted to Roadway Supervisors in their respective locations.

KLJ Engineering is proud to announce that Senior Project Manager Bryan Field recently earned his Professional Engineer (PE) license in North Dakota and Engineer McKenzie Butcher has earned her PE in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Colorado.

KLJ is proud to announce that the firm has been awarded a National American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) Honor Award for work on the Kalispell Core and Rail Redevelopment project in Kalispell, MT.

KLJ is proud to announce that the firm has been awarded two American Council of Engineering Companies of North Dakota (ACEC/ND) awards for work on the Devils Lake Downtown Revitalization Project and Ground Transportation Center Parking Garage in Fargo.

KLJ is proud to announce that Jess Karls will now serve as associate vice president of Transportation. In this role, she will oversee the client management of the company’s transportation services. Specifically, Karls will focus her efforts on helping support the North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT), ensuring projects are delivered effectively and efficiently, utilizing all infrastructure-related services KLJ provides.

KLJ was awarded a “2022 Engineering Excellence Award” by The American Council of Engineering Companies of Minnesota (ACEC/MN) for our work on the Trunk Highway (TH) 22 Corridor Study project. TH 22 from St. Peter, Minn. to Mankato, Minn., is the highest-trafficked section of two-lane highway in Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) District 7, an area in the southwest corner of Minnesota encompassing roughly 10 percent of the state by land area and total roadway.

We are proud to announce that Wade Thompson, a structural engineer with KLJ’s bridges team, has earned his Professional Engineer (PE) license in Minnesota.

We are proud to announce that Civil Engineer-in-Training (EIT) Brent Noonan has earned his Professional Engineer (PE) license in North Dakota.

We are proud to announce that Matt Martin recently earned his Professional Engineer (PE) license in South Dakota. Martin is a civil engineer-in-training (EIT) with more than four years of experience.

Oz Khan is based out of KLJ’s Saint Paul, Minnesota location. He is a transportation engineer and planner with experience in traffic operations and safety studies, traffic impact studies, traffic forecasting, traffic modeling and simulation, long range transportation plans, GIS analysis, speed studies, Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance, pavement management, context-sensitive solutions, asset management, noise analysis, and advanced statistical analysis.