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We are proud to announce that KLJ has been named a 50 Best Places to Work award recipient by Prairie Business Magazine. The recognition profiles companies throughout North Dakota, South Dakota, and western Minnesota whose employees feel appreciated and part of the team.

KLJ Engineering promotes Cody Aldinger to vice president (VP) of Information Technology (IT).

KLJ Engineering is proud to announce that Government Relations Specialist Becky Bey has completed all required coursework to become a Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) certified professional through the National Institute of Crime Prevention (NICP). She is one of only six professionals with this certification in the state of Montana. 

KLJ is proud to announce Martin Fritz as the company’s chief administrative officer (CAO). In this role, Fritz is responsible for overall operations of the company, including the company’s safety programs and procedures, strategy development, legal, risk management, insurance, office/facilities leasing and construction, and related administrative management.

We understand the unique needs of Tribal Nations and we can help you through the entire broadband funding and project process.

August 19 is National Aviation Day. To commemorate this special occasion, we sat down with Amber Channel, aviation associate planner and certified remote pilot, based in our Rapid City, SD office, and Andrew Zielike, aviation planner and certified remote pilot, in our St. Paul, MN office, to highlight a little-known area of the KLJ team: our UAS team.

We are proud to announce that Area Manager Su Hedrick recently earned her Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification. The Project Management Professional certification is the world’s leading project management certification that requires an application, prerequisite experience, many hours of study, and a final exam.

We are proud to announce that Daniel Wagner has been named one of Flathead Valley’s “40 Under 40” by the Kalispell Chamber of Commerce and The Daily Inter Lake. He was recognized this week at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon.

The KLJ Solutions Holding Co., parent organization to KLJ Engineering LLC (KLJ), and its Board of Directors has announced Eric Michel, as the organization’s chief executive officer (CEO).

We are proud to announce that Dillon McLain has been named to Helena Independent Record’s 20 under 40 for 2021. According to the paper, “[Helena] is thriving with leaders who have accomplished great things by the age of 40. The Independent Record and the Helena Area Chamber of Commerce are proud to recognize many of those young leaders with our annual 20 Under 40 business professional awards.”

KLJ is proud to welcome Doug Barr, PE as a senior structural engineer in their Englewood, Colorado office.

KLJ Engineering is proud to welcome Jonathan Matter as a finance director. Matter is based out of KLJ’s West Fargo, ND office and will be responsible for leading KLJ’s financial strategy and growth across the company.

KLJ Engineering LLC is proud to announce that Zillgitt Civil Design has joined the KLJ team! Bringing nearly two decades of civil engineering and survey experience, the addition of Zillgitt Civil Design creates opportunities for the two firms to come together and further partner with communities by engineering progressive infrastructure throughout southeastern Minnesota.

Surface disturbances are required to reap the benefits of the underground oil and gas bounty. But what happens to these disturbed areas when all the oil or gas is extracted?

Oz Khan, a transportation engineer and planner, in KLJ’s Saint Paul office, has earned his professional engineering license (PE) in Minnesota.