At Terracon, you'll get the backing to grow your career, prioritize your safety, and hone your skills on exciting projects. We embrace our different backgrounds and shared goals to deliver important projects, support our communities, and take care of each other.
We’re guided by our values, the things that really matter to our company. These include caring, courage, and curiosity. We encourage you to be yourself and feel comfortable sharing ideas and concerns, knowing your co-workers have your back. Excellence is another value, and we know it's easier to excel when you are supported at our best and most challenging moments.
Supporting your success
We'll give you the tools and resources to excel in your career, equipping you to join the next generation of changemakers. But you won’t do it alone. Terracon leaders will welcome you as a learner and partner, and peers will inspire you along the way.
What you will experience:
- A growing number of career paths to empower you to plan your future career development. You and your supervisor will identify your career goals and how to move you forward.
- Internal education programs and support to earn your industry and professional certifications.
- Relocation assistance to pursue new opportunities. Take your pick — we have more than180 locations across the U.S.
Thrive as an owner
Terracon is 100% employee-owned. This means we’re responsible only to each other, rather than outside investors. Together, we chart our own course and directly benefit from our efforts.
What you will experience:
- The ability to become an owner through our ESOP/401(k) and annual stock offerings.
- The chance to think big to formulate new courses for progress.
- The opportunity to make a difference with a company that is growing — safely and profitably.
Uncompromising commitment to your safety
Building an Incident and Injury-Free (IIF™) workplace has fundamentally transformed our safety culture and its impact.
What you will experience:
- Being empowered to stop work for any safety concerns without repercussions.
- Regular safety check-ins with your manager. Spot bonuses for safe behavior on job sites.
- IIF driver safety training for all employees to help keep you and your co-workers safe on the road.
A place to be yourself
Terracon is committed to promoting a work environment where everyone feels valued, included, and welcome. We live this commitment through our Guiding Behaviors.
- We commit to treating everyone fairly and respectfully.
- We commit to inclusion.
- We commit to speaking up for ourselves and others: we believe our different perspectives help us to be more inventive, inspired, and resourceful.
What you will experience:
- A culture where your ideas and suggestions are taken seriously.
- Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) led by employees and open to all. These groups support our Guiding Behaviors and let you connect with employees nationwide around shared interests and experiences.
Caring for our world
Caring for our employees, clients, communities, and planet are the heart of our sustainability commitment. Improving our world for ourselves and future generations through the work we do for clients and how we operate as a responsible company is important to us and those we work with.
What you will experience:
- Proactive updates on progress toward our sustainability goals in areas such as greenhouse gas emissions, project- and office-generated waste, and sustainable procurement.
- The opportunity to work on projects supporting our clients’ sustainability goals including renewable energy, ecological planning and restoration, and sustainable site development.
- The chance to make positive changes in your office and community through our sustainability ERG and through local “Green Teams” and volunteer efforts.
Investing in our communities
Caring inspires the ways we connect with our employees, communities, and clients. The Terracon Foundation helps our employee-owners give back to their communities. All employees have the opportunity to champion grants to support the universities and organizations dearest to them. The Foundation also awards education scholarships to children, stepchildren, and other eligible dependents of Terracon employees.
Since its founding in 2008, the Terracon Foundation has granted nearly $5 million to community organizations, universities, disaster relief, employee dependent scholarships, and employee-owner matching contributions.