Morrissey Goodale can be your secret weapon in the A/E industry’s talent war by recruiting highly qualified candidates for hard-to-fill positions and helping you retain top staff.
An architecture, engineering, or environmental consulting firm’s greatest asset is its people. Morrissey Goodale’s executive search consultants have assisted hundreds of firms with making successful strategic hires. And as the competition for talent grows ever fiercer, our expert consultants use their A/E industry specialization to pinpoint top candidates for your open positions and improve staff retention through employee engagement surveys.
Our executive search and human resources services include:
Morrissey Goodale’s extensive industry contacts and personal attention allow us to identify the most talented candidates for your open positions—from the C-suite to junior-level professionals—and guide you through the successful interviewing and hiring process. We meticulously screen all candidates, and our proven methodology and knowledge of our clients’ specific needs allow us to consistently provide superior results.
We can take your firm’s pulse by providing a safe environment for your managers and staff to give their honest and forthright feedback—all in the spirit of improving employee satisfaction and morale. And since we have talked with literally thousands of architecture, engineering, and environmental consulting professionals, we know how to put issues in their proper context to help you handle them in a healthy and productive manner.
Current executive search positions include:
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Our Recent Placement Success
MAY 2019
Civil Engineering Land Development Lead, Greenville, SC
Our Client: An ENR Top 200 design firm with over 1,000 employees across 20+ offices providing engineering and environmental consulting services to clients nationwide.
MAY 2019
Bridge Engineering Manager, Cleveland, OH
Our Client: A civil engineering, transportation engineering, and land surveying firm that provides planning, design, and construction services related to all types of infrastructure projects.
APR 2019
Marketing Manager, Boston, MA
Our Client: An international leader in environmental and transportation planning serving both government and private industry clients. Key services provided include noise and vibration control, air quality analysis, airport and airspace planning, and climate and energy solutions.
MAR 2019
Project Manager, Oklahoma City, OK
Our Client: An ENR Top 500 consulting firm providing air quality, civil engineering, ecological sciences, environmental engineering and sciences, planning, survey, transportation engineering, waste management, and water resources design solutions.
MAR 2019
Architectural Designer, Upper Saddle River, NJ
Our Client: An ENR Top 100 engineering consulting firm with 45 locations focused on the U.S. environmental sector.
MAR 2019
Senior Structural Engineer, Irvine, CA
Our Client: An ENR Top 100 firm with over 1,500 professionals serving municipal, private and federal clients nationwide.
FEB 2019
Environmental Technical Director, Chicago, IL
Our Client: A privately held firm providing a variety of services to real estate portfolio companies including organizations in the hospitality, industrial, multi-family, office, retail, senior housing and manufactured homes markets.
FEB 2019
Director of Marketing & Business Development, Bentonville, AR
Our Client: A leading, privately held civil engineering, planning, landscape architecture, and land surveying firm with over 100 professionals across offices nationwide.
FEB 2019
Project Manager, Indianapolis, IN
Our Client: An ENR Top 500 firm with over 20 offices nationwide providing design solutions across several markets including manufacturing, mining, natural gas, power, public sector, real estate and solid waste.
JAN 2019
Geospatial Division Leader, West Palm Beach, FL
Our Client: An ENR Top 500 design firm with over 500 professionals across 18 offices providing a variety of services to the private clients, public agencies, and municipalities nationwide.
JAN 2019
Principal Bridge Engineer, Boston, MA
Our Client: An ENR Top 500 multidisciplinary engineering and environmental consulting firm providing a wide range of services including transportation, water & wastewater engineering, site planning & design, environmental consulting, coastal & waterfront solutions, and building services.
NOV 2018
CAD Designer, Austin, Texas
Our Client: A Texas based engineering, architectural and surveying firm providing award-winning services to municipal, industrial, institutional, and commercial clients throughout the state.
NOV 2018
Metroplex Business Unit Manager, Dallas, Texas
Our Client: A full-service, ENR Top 200 firm specializing in geotechnical, environmental consulting and testing with 30 offices across 9 states.
OCT 2018
Bridge Project Manager, Charleston, South Carolina
Our Client: An ENR Top 200 firm providing engineering and architectural planning, design and construction solutions to transportation and federal clients nationwide.
OCT 2018
Project Manager, St. Louis, Missouri
Our Client: An ENR Top 500 firm providing expertise in air quality, civil engineering, ecological sciences, environmental engineering and sciences, survey, waste management and water resources.
SEP 2018
Regional Manager, Atlanta, Georgia
Our Client: A multidisciplinary firm with over 250 employees providing engineering, planning, landscape architecture, surveying and GIS services across several markets.
SEP 2018
Senior Electrical Engineer, New York, New York
Our Client: An ENR Top 500 consulting engineering firm with over 400 employees offering mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection services to public and private clients.
AUG 2018
Senior Geotechnical Engineering Manager, Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania
Our Client: An ENR Top 500 firm providing environmental and geotechnical engineering and consulting services to both public and private sector clients.
JULY 2018
Principal Architect, Houston, Texas
Our Client: An ENR Top 100 firm with over 60 offices globally, providing architecture, engineering, interiors, landscape architecture, and planning & urban design services.
JULY 2018
CAD Technician, Corpus Christi, Texas
Our Client: A multi-discipline engineering, architectural and surveying firm specializing in civil, structural, transportation, environmental, architectural, and surveying services.
JUNE 2018
Project Manager, Austin, Texas
Our Client: A growing, Texas-based firm focused on civil engineering for land development projects.
JUNE 2018
Project Manager, East Brunswick, New Jersey
Our Client: An environmental consulting firm providing a full range of services including licensed site remediation professional services, environmental due diligence, regulatory compliance, and site remediation and redevelopment.
JUNE 2018
Associate, East Brunswick, New Jersey
Our Client: A full-service environmental consulting firm serving clients from the petroleum, industrial, financial, insurance and real estate industries.
JUNE 2018
Senior Structural Engineer, Columbus, Ohio
Our Client: An ENR Top 100 environmental firm serving municipal, private and federal clients nationwide.
MAY 2018
Structural REVIT Lead, Raleigh, North Carolina
Our Client: An ENR Top 100 firm with over 1,500 professionals in 45 locations providing water and environmental services.
MAY 2018
Business Development Leader, Jacksonville, Florida
Our Client: A national leader in environmental consulting, engineering and surveying, air quality and process management, information technology, and water and natural resource services.
APR 2018
Human Resources Director, Cincinnati, Ohio
Our Client: An ENR Top 500 firm that is a global leader in airport and aviation planning. This highly respected firm has worked on projects across all seven continents including most of the largest airports in the world.
APR 2018
Southeast Transportation Core Business Manager, West Palm Beach, Florida
Our Client: An ENR Top 500 multi-disciplinary firm with seven offices nationwide and over 250 employees. This firm provides solutions for public and private-sector clients including geospatial services, civil engineering, facilities engineering and design services, transportation engineering, construction services, and oil and gas.
MAR 2018
Senior Water Resources Engineer, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Our Client: A leader in geoscience, engineering, data, and integrated technology solutions. With over twenty offices across the US and Canada, this fast-growing firm serves major industry sectors including mining, energy, water, natural resources, environmental, and infrastructure.
MAR 2018
Architectural Sales Representative, Boston, Massachusetts
Our Client: A growing company that designs, manufactures, and supplies high-end commercial products.
JAN 2018
Transportation Senior Project Manager, Chicago, Illinois
Our Client: An ENR Top 500 engineering consulting firm with over 600 professionals across the U.S. This highly successful firm serves a broad range of markets including aviation, bridge, railroad, roadway, transit, water, and environmental.
JAN 2018
President & CEO, Dallas, Texas
Our Client: An award winning water resources and environmental engineering firm with offices throughout Texas. Our client focuses on solving problems and helping communities with all aspects surrounding water supply, drinking water, wastewater, water reuse, stormwater, and groundwater.
NOV 2017
Transportation Project Manager, Orlando, Florida
Our Client: An ENR Top 500 engineering consulting firm with over 600 professionals across the U.S. This highly successful firm serves a broad range of markets including aviation, bridge, railroad, roadway, transit, water, and environmental.
AUG 2017
Traffic Project Manager, Boston, Massachusetts
Our Client: An ENR Top 500 multidisciplinary engineering and environmental consulting firm providing a wide range of services including transportation, water & wastewater engineering, site planning & design, environmental consulting, coastal & waterfront solutions, and building services.
AUG 2017
Senior Traffic Engineer, New Haven, Connecticut
Our Client: An ENR Top 500, employee-owned engineering and environmental consulting firm. With over a century of success our client is recognized as a leading engineering firm in New England.
MAY 2017
Public Works Leader, Dallas, Texas
Our Client: An ENR Top 500 multidisciplinary civil engineering firm providing a wide range of services with an emphasis on public works and infrastructure projects. This Texas-based firm is headquartered in Houston, and was named among the 100 fastest-growing business in Houston by the Houston Business Journal.
MAY 2017
Civil Practice Lead, Boston, Massachusetts
Our Client: A highly successful engineering consulting firm consistently ranked among the ENR Top 500 Design Firms and the ENR Top 200 Environmental Firms. With over 20 offices nationwide, this multi-disciplinary firm provides design solutions across several markets including manufacturing, mining, natural gas, power, public sector, real estate and solid waste.
MAY 2017
Senior Rail Noise & Vibration Consultant, Portland, Oregon
Our Client: An international leader in environmental and transportation planning serving both government and private industry clients. Key services provided by this award-winning firm include noise and vibration control, air quality analysis, airport and airspace planning, and climate and energy solutions.
MAY 2017
Principal Associate, Boston, Massachusetts
Our Client: An ENR Top 500 consulting engineering firm with over 600 professionals across the US. This highly successful firm serves a broad range of markets providing civil, structural, environmental, landscape architecture, and geotechnical engineering services.
APR 2017
Civil Practice Lead, Austin, Texas
Our Client: An multi-disciplinary engineering consulting firm consistently ranked among the Top 500 Design Firms and the Top 200 Environmental Firms by ENR. With over 20 offices nationwide, this highly successful firm provides design solutions in the areas of civil engineering, ecological sciences, environmental engineering and sciences, waste management and water resources.
MAR 2017
Regional Director, Nashville, Tennessee
Our Client: A highly successful, multidisciplinary civil engineering firm that regularly ranks in the top “Best Places to Work” by state publications. With over 250 employees across eight offices, this firm offers engineering, planning, landscape architecture, surveying and GIS services across several markets.
MAR 2017
Program Manager, Oil & Gas, Houston, Texas
Our Client: An ENR Top 500 full-service architecture, engineering, planning and construction firm with over 400 employees across 15 offices nationally. This well-established firm has over 50 years of success in serving government, corporate and private sector clients throughout the U.S. and globally.
JAN 2017
Southeast Rail Leader, Charlotte, North Carolina
Our Client: An ENR Top 200 consulting engineering firm and one of the nation’s Top 50 “Go-To” bridge design firms named by Roads & Bridges Magazine. With over 25 offices nationally, this firm specializes in providing civil, structural, environmental, landscape architecture, and geotechnical engineering services to clients in transportation and infrastructure development.
NOV 2016
Financial Controller, New York, New York
Our Client: An ENR Top 200, full-service consulting engineering firm based in New York City. With over 400 employees across ten offices, this award-winning firm provides a range of professional engineering services including HVAC, electrical, plumbing & sanitary engineering, and fire/life safety engineering to both public and private sector clients worldwide.
SEP 2016
Dallas Transportation Leader, Dallas, Texas
Our Client: An ENR Top 500 multidisciplinary civil engineering firm providing a wide range of services with an emphasis on public works and infrastructure projects. This Texas-based firm is headquartered in Houston, and was named among the 100 fastest-growing business in Houston by the Houston Business Journal.
JUN 2016
Transportation Practice Leader/Regional Manager, Atlanta, Georgia
Our Client: An ENR Top 500 engineering consulting firm providing civil, structural, environmental, landscape architecture and geotechnical engineering services to clients in transportation and infrastructure development.
JUN 2016
Senior Utilities Project Manager, Houston, Texas
Our Client: An ENR Top 500, multi-discipline civil engineering consulting firm providing transportation, traffic, ITS, water and sewer, aviation, drainage, land development, and environmental services.
MAY 2016
Senior Engineer/Gas Management Expert, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Our Client: A multi-award winning, regional leader in the earth resources engineering field, specializing in environmental consulting.
MAR 2016
Senior Storm Water Project Manager, Houston, Texas
Our Client: A Texas-based, ENR Top 500 civil engineering consultancy that provides a wide range of services including land development, drainage, water and sewer, aviation, transportation, traffic, ITS, and environmental.
JAN 2016
Regions Practice Manager, Austin, Texas
Our Client: An ENR Top 500 design firm with multiple offices, providing award-winning transportation, traffic, ITS, water and sewer, aviation, drainage, land development, environmental and consulting engineering services.
NOV 2015
Senior Project Manager, San Francisco, California
Our Client: A full-service consulting firm offering planning, engineering and program management services that is consistently ranked as an ENR Top 100 A/E Firm. With 20 offices nation-wide, its portfolio encompasses several markets, including airports & aviation, education, ports & marine, rail & transit, roadways & bridges, stormwater & drainage, wastewater & reuse, and water supply & transmission.
OCT 2015
Aviation Project Engineer, Austin, Texas
Our Client: An ENR top 500 design firm with multiple offices located throughout Texas offering a wide range of engineering services including water and sewer, storm water, roadways, bridges, ports, traffic and transit, airports, land development, sustainability, energy and environmental.
SEP 2015
Petrochemical Segment Leader, Cincinnati, Ohio
Our Client: An ENR Top 500 engineering consulting firm providing civil, structural, environmental, landscape architecture and geotechnical engineering services to clients in transportation and infrastructure development.
AUG 2015
Director of Architecture, Orlando, Florida
Our Client: An ENR top 500 Design Firm with over fifty years of experience designing award-winning facilities for specialized markets including manufacturing/industrial, aviation, aerospace, federal, education, commercial and entertainment.
AUG 2015
Vice President of Civil Works, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Our Client: An ENR top 200 Design Firm and an Architectural Record top 300 firm with over thirty years of success providing multi-disciplinary services to clients in the commercial, institutional, retail, educational, industrial and governmental sectors.
AUG 2015
Chief of Staff, Boston, Massachusetts
Our Client: A full-service design firm and the largest architecture firm in Boston, ranked number one on Boston Business Journal’s list of the top 25 architectural firms in Massachusetts. This firm has designed several highly acclaimed and award-winning projects across several markets including hospitality, residential, interior environments, corporate, retail, entertainment, civic, and higher education.
JUL 2015
Vice President of Building Market, Rochester, New York
Our Client: An ENR Top 500 design firm with multiple offices, providing award-winning transportation, traffic, ITS, water and sewer, aviation, drainage, land development, environmental and consulting engineering services.
JUL 2015
Chief Operating Officer, Boston, Massachusetts
Our Client: A privately held, full-service design firm, ranked number one on Boston Business Journal’s list of the top 25 architectural firms in Massachusetts. This firm is known for its portfolio of highly acclaimed and award-winning projects, providing architecture, master planning, urban design, interior architecture, and workplace consulting.
JUN 2015
Project Manager, Houston, Texas
Our Client: A privately held, Houston-based civil engineering firm that is consistently ranked as one of the top 25 civil/structural engineering firms by the Houston Business Journal. Services include site and land development, utility districts, public works, transportation, hydrology, and environmental engineering for both public and private sector clients in Texas.
MAY 2015
Transportation Business Group Director, Dallas, Texas
Our Client: An award-winning, national engineering firm with over 20 offices throughout the country. This firm’s wide-ranging portfolio of projects encompasses many markets including rail & transit, roadways & bridges, airports & aviation, ports & marine, stormwater & drainage, wastewater & reuse, and water supply & transmission.
MAR 2015
Senior Project Manager, Seattle, Washington
Our Client: An ENR Top 300 architecture, engineering and construction services consulting firm, recognized as a leader in the education/institutional, aviation, aerospace, federal, and commercial/industrial markets.
MAR 2015
Environmental Director, Bridgeport, West Virginia
Our Client: An ENR Top 500 Design Firm with several offices across the northeast offering a wide range of engineering services including Environmental Permitting and Consulting services, Water/Wastewater, Site Planning/Land Development, Structures, Energy, Transportation, and Surveying/Mapping.
JAN 2015
Senior Project Manager, West Palm Beach, Florida
Our Client: An ENR Top 300 architecture, engineering and construction services consulting firm, recognized as a leader in the education/institutional, aviation, aerospace, federal, and commercial/industrial markets.
DEC 2014
Municipal Project Engineer, San Antonio, Texas
Our Client: An award-winning, privately-held ENR 500 Civil Engineering consulting firm with offices throughout Texas offering a wide range of services including Water and Sewer, Storm Water, Roadways, Bridges, Ports, Traffic and Transit, Airports, Land Development, Sustainability, Energy, and Environmental.
NOV 2014
Environmental Practice Leader, Boston, Massachusetts
Our Client: A leading provider of environmental consulting services include Bioremediation, Hydrocarbon Cleanup, Regulatory Compliance Audits, and Manufactured Gas Plant Cleanup.
NOV 2014
Associate Engineer, Houston, Texas
Our Client: An ENR Top 500 Design Firm with four Texas locations. This firm provides transportation, traffic, ITS, water and sewer, sustainability, aviation, drainage, land development, environmental and consulting engineering services.
OCT 2014
Controller, New York, New York
Our Client: An ENR Top 200 design firm offering a full range of consulting engineering services to public and private sector clients across the United States and around the world. Services include engineering, analysis & testing, building management systems, central utilities, code consulting, commissioning, critical systems, energy & sustainability, fire & life safety, IT/AV/security, lighting design, and special inspections.
SEP 2014
Vice President, Business Group Director, Los Angeles, California
Our Client: An award winning, ENR Top 100 A/E firm offering planning, engineering and program management services with nearly 800 professionals in 30 offices nationwide.
JUL 2014
Municipal Department Manager, Texas
Our Client: ENR Top 500 design firm providing engineering consulting services to municipalities throughout Texas including water resources, roadway and utilities.
JUL 2014
Regional Manager, Lufkin, Texas
Our Client: An ENR top 500 design firm with multiple offices located throughout Texas offering a wide range of engineering services including water/wastewater, transportation, land development, sustainability, energy, and environmental.
JUL 2014
Transportation Regional Director, Houston, Texas
Our Client: A mid-west ENR top 300 engineering and technical consulting firm serving public and private sector clients throughout the United States in the following markets: transportation, water, governmental services, senior living, energy and land development.
JUL 2014
Vice President, Transportation Practice, Austin, Texas
Our Client: An ENR top 100 award winning design firm that provides a full range of multi-disciplined engineering, architectural, and related services to public agencies and private clients throughout the United States.
JUN 2014
Comptroller, New York City, New York
Our Client: An award winning architecture and urban design firm providing design and development services to institutions, public agencies, private landowners, and property development clients.
JUN 2014
Regional Manager, Atlanta, Georgia
Our Client: An ENR Top 500 international architecture and engineering firm with multiple locations across the US, recognized as a leader in planning, design, engineering and construction.
JUN 2014
Senior Consultant, Building Technology Division, New York City, New York
Our Client: An ENR top 100 award-winning engineering firm that designs, investigates, and rehabilitates structures and building enclosures with work encompassing building, transportation, nuclear, water/wastewater and science/defense projects throughout the US and internationally.
MAR 2014
Director of Business Development, Westford, Massachusetts
Our Client: A multi-disciplined civil engineering firm providing engineering services for major transportation projects, water, sewer and drainage infrastructure projects in the New England market.
FEB 2014
Director of Client Services, Vice President, San Antonio, Texas
Our Client: An ENR top 500 full-service engineering consulting firm, renowned for innovative solutions with a staff of professionals in six states specializing in Transportation, Environmental, and Public Works.
JAN 2014
Senior Project Manager, Land Survey, San Diego, Californi
Our Client: Continually ranked by ENR as one of the top engineering firms in the nation, serves public and private sector clients in the transportation, water, facilities, land development, energy, and federal markets.
DEC 2013
Associate Principal, Annapolis, Maryland
Our Client: Landscape Architectural Firm with a multitude of awards and thirty years or experience in High end Residential, Academic and Cultural in the Maryland area.
NOV 2013
Director of Marketing, New York City, New York
Our Client: Architecture and urban design firm Ranked number 1 on Architectural Record’s list of Top 5 Design Firms by museum construction starts over the past two years.
OCT 2013
Chief Financial Officer, New York City, New York
Our Client: An award winning architecture and urban design firm providing design and development services to institutions, public agencies, private landowners, and property development clients.
SEP 2013
Senior District Cooling Manager, New York
Our Client: A European ENR Top 50 global design firm and a Top 150 design firm in North America with over 50,000 projects in 175 countries.
AUG 2013
Director of Business Development & Marketing, Florida
Our Client: An ENR Top 500 international architecture and engineering firm with multiple locations.
AUG 2013
Director of Human Resources, Louisiana
Our Client: A leading regional architectural, engineering, and construction services firm.
JUN 2013
Regional Manager, San Antonio, Texas
Our Client: An ENR Top 500 design firm providing a broad range of civil engineering services to clients in the Texas market.
JUN 2013
Senior Project Manager, Louisiana
Our Client: Established architectural and engineering firm, focused on community improvement in the southeastern United States.
APR 2013
Director of Environmental Permitting, Pennsylvania
Our Client: An ENR Top 500 Design Firm in North America providing broad range of engineering services.
APR 2013
Public Utilities Practice Manager, Texas
Our Client: An ENR Top 500 design firm with multiple locations throughout Texas.
MAR 2013
Chief Operating Officer, Louisiana
Our Client: A leading architectural, engineering, and construction services firm with offices in the Gulf region.
MAR 2013
Transportation Practice Manager, Texas
Our Client: An award winning engineering firm with 30 locations throughout the United States.
MAR 2013
Construction Services Project Manager, Massachusetts
Our Client: An ENR Top 40 design firm with over 140 offices and 3,000 employees nationwide.
FEB 2013
Associate Principal Architect, Maryland
Our Client: An award-winning boutique architectural firm based in Maryland specializing in architecture, interior design, and planning.
FEB 2013
Marketing Manager, Louisiana
Our Client: Experienced and nationally recognized architecture/engineering firm with headquarters in Louisiana.
JAN 2013
Director of Midstream Operations, Natural Gas, Pennsylvania
Our Client: A Top 50 Fastest Growing company in the Northeast and an ENR Top 500 design firm, specializing in transportation design and energy consulting services.
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“Tighe & Bond engaged Morrissey Goodale to assist with a search for a very specific engineering need we had in Massachusetts and Connecticut, since the positions we sought to fill were challenging in a competitive niche market. The representatives were very professional throughout the process. They took time to ask careful questions about our employee value proposition, and followed up regularly. We were impressed with their responsiveness and how quickly…
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"Thank you for helping us find and not hire 1, but 3 key professionals to help Benesch expand our geography, service line offering, and client base. These Senior Project Managers were not looking for new opportunities. All three were located in highly competitive markets. Morrissey Goodale successfully and efficiently completed the challenge of sourcing and recruiting." Jack P. Kweder, Jr, PE COO, Alfred Benesch & Company "Lisa Elster with Morrissey Goodale helped us hire a Principal for our Houston, Texas office. This was an important strategic hire for our firm. The MG team did an excellent job finding an individual who not only has the technical skill set for the position, but someone who was a great cultural fit for our firm as well. It was a difficult position to fill as the market for this… Mark French Director/US Deputy Education Lead, Texas-IBI Group
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