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From day one, I have felt like a valued member of the team at David Evans and Associates, Inc. The environment is both supportive and professional, where collaboration, respect, and a genuine commitment to employee success are part of the culture.

One of the standout aspects for me has been the emphasis on work/life balance. Expectations are clear and realistic, and there's a strong understanding that personal well-being is key to long-term success. This has allowed me to thrive both professionally and personally.

Throughout my time here, I’ve been given many opportunities to grow, learn new skills, and take on meaningful challenges. It's an environment where initiative is welcomed and development is encouraged.   I’ve been trusted with meaningful responsibilities, encouraged to expand my skills, and supported every step of the way. Whether through mentorship, training, or challenging projects, the opportunities to develop professionally are abundant.

If you're seeking a place where you can grow your career, feel supported, and maintain balance, David Evans Associates, Inc. is a fantastic choice.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Get to see the PNW. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The people are unfriendly to new staff, training is very basic for the complex projects. Training is designed to have very little interaction with senior technical staff. Management and senior technical staff are often at odds with project procedure. Senior technical staff prefers to only work with particular staff. Management struggles to understand needed skill sets when hiring new staff and often struggle to communicate schedules and feedback. Career paths, authority and company structure are unknown to many new and even senior staff. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Fast moving, mainly local projects, minimal  training, teamwork is required, but never practiced. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
If field staff: schedule revealed in the evening before, out in the field all day. 
Office staff: come into the office, log in and work on sections of the job, senior techs work from home and try not to communicate. Work is highly detailed, experience in balance with pace and quality required for all projects as expected for this industry.

A good work culture in general with many good managers.  A few bad elements in project management are bringing down the Ontario office and other California region offices.  They let production people take the fall for their poor project management and abuse their power in petty ways.  Many, many complaints about certain project managers over a long period of time have been ignored by upper management to the point of causing good employees to quit.

Although my direct supervisor specifically was an excellent Project Manager.

A good place to build your skills with opportunity for growth.  As long as you can survive through the dramatic ups and downs of available billable work and particular poor elements within project management who seem to get off scott free without fail, despite the mass of complaints against them from the production crew.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The people were great, the organization was well structured, company communications were frequent, I had an amazing boss.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
the commute to my office was rough (not the same experience for everyone I am sure)

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Very friendly but not to the point of being family oriented. Boundaries were still Very clear as well as expectations. Very engaging and welcoming culture.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Task oriented, weekly goal oriented, rarely did I have overtime, and would step outside for lunch walks. Sometimes I would have to work sick on deadlines.

My typical day as a surveyor was to get topo or property information by meeting with the project surveyor almost every morning before heading to the field.  We would typically travel all up and down the west cost and eastern Oregon and Washington.  We would set project control points, setup instruments and proceed to conduct the type of survey (often) topo surveys ranging from slides to highways, intersections, bridges, substations, BPA transmission lines etc.

I loved the daily and weekly travel.  I found DEA to be a great place to work but was unfortunately laid off due to lack of work.

DEA is an excellent place for people wanting a really balanced work/life balance.  They embrace ways to make your work culture blend with your home life.  They believe in paying you for any time worked. They understand the importance of staff and how their success will only make DEA's success more plentiful.  They continue to encourage and facilitate employee growth and relations.  They are also community and environmental stewards.  They give back to the community in many ways too.

I highly recommend DEA to anyone working in the Civil Engineering industry.

The cultural drivers are very progressive and the company follows their codes of ethics well.
Management of projects is difficult in an uncertain industry as a construction management oversight third party for public works projects.  It is difficult to predict work loads and tendency would be to overhire for Summer months leaving Winter months devoid of available inspection work. This complicates the ability for the company to promise full time employment and a set / promised yearly salary when paying per hour and those hours become cut due to budget concerns.

This company will chew you up &  spit you out. If you're looking for company standards...they have none. As soon as I was hired,,,they threw me into where the morass of bad files and drawings.

Management was not supportive or communicative at all.

Remote work had no immediate support on projects. They had drawings for construction. that were touched by everyone. There were changes made to construction drawings that had been changed, but not passed on!

There were several locations that had make-up work..incompitent crews and rushing for deadlines on permanent construction over doing the work properly.


It was a great place to work and I loved having every other Friday off. Everyone was approachable and just a good place to work. I was sad to be laid-off but I understand it is just the times.
It wasn't nearly busy enough and that made for some long days. You always learn new things from the people around you.
My coworkers were the best in just one year I have made some lasting friendships.
The hardest part - Not enough work, thats why I was laid-off
The people by far was the most enjoyable from the president to the guys in my department

Make sure all supplies were up to date. Handled computer backup monthly and weekly, sent backups to Iron Mountain and main office.  Handled all UPS deliveries.  Managed all IT equipment and made sure employees computers worked efficiently.  Co-workers were pleasant and helpful.  Management was on point.  The hardest part of the job were learning to handle the filing system.  The most enjoyable part of the job was interacting with all the employees.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Construction inspector 20 salaries reported	$35.02 per hour
Survey technician 21 salaries reported	$36.36 per hour
Bridge engineer 10 salaries reported	$132,330 per year
Project coordinator 6 salaries reported	$35.67 per hour
Survey project manager 12 salaries reported	$137,292 per year

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