As we did in our last post, we trying to continue the trend of presenting good news with the bad news. So in that spirit, we're going to write about layoffs first and then present some ideas/opinions on engineering firms that may be hiring in the near future.
The Bad News
Fluor Corp is laying off 17.5% of its staff at its offices in Irvine and Aliso Viejo in Southern California according to the Orange County Register. 350 people out of 2000 employees is a huge number - good luck to those unlucky employees in their job searches.
Proving that taxpayer supported agencies are not immune either, Kansas City's Water Services Department is laying off 38 engineers and managers (courtesy of the Kansas City Star).
Green jobs are not looking so great either. These layoffs from OptiSolar and BP Solar seem to contradict the article we wrote about earlier this month.
The Good News
Money from the stimulus bill is finally making its way into state government coffers. Many people, including a reporter at ENR, have gone over the effects of the stimulus fund in more detail than we will here.
We figure that this is good news for transportation engineers. In general, transportation projects are easier to get designed quickly than more complex projects like bridges and wastewater treatment plants. So if we were out-of-work civil engineers, we would look for jobs at the following companies, which perform a lot of transportation and heavy civil work.
-Moffatt & Nichol
-Louis Berger Group
-HNTB
-Bechtel Corporation
Good luck!
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