About Us
As an employee-owned firm, our collective success is directly linked to the individual commitment of each of our staff. This shared ownership creates a culture of accountability, responsiveness, and excellence – where every team member is personally invested in delivering exceptional service. Our clients benefit from a team who approaches each project with pride, purpose, and a true stake in the results.
Our Mission and Vision
Mission: EKI is employee-owned and committed to investing in our people and by making an impact through solving our clients’ environmental, water resources, and engineering challenges.
Vision: We are dedicated to serving our clients and communities by delivering high quality, innovative, and technically advanced solutions in environmental and water resources management.
Our Values
We believe in values that reflect who we are, how we work together, and how we serve our clients and communities. These Core Values strengthen our company culture, align our decisions, and anchor us in excellence, impact, and the people who make our work possible.
- Pursue Excellence: We grow, improve, and stay curious. We are committed to delivering high-quality, rigorous, and innovative solutions.
- Embody Ownership: We take responsibility for our individual and collective success. We are proactive, solution-oriented, and accountable to our clients and each other.
- Value Relationships: People are the foundation of our success. We cultivate lasting relationships through trust, respect, responsiveness, and integrity.
- Make an Impact: We do meaningful work with energy and purpose. We focus on results that make a difference for our clients, our team, and the communities we serve.
- We are EKI: We invest in our people. We foster a collaborative, inclusive, and supportive environment and take pride in shaping the future of EKI together.
Our Commitment
At EKI, we understand that continuity and engagement of key personnel are essential to project success. Our dedicated project teams bring deep technical expertise, clear communication, and overall reliability to each project, ensuring consistent, high-quality service and long-term value for our clients.
Our Safety Culture
Safety is a fundamental element of EKI’s culture and an integral part of how we do business. We are committed to maintaining a robust safety system that protects our employees, clients, partners, and the communities we serve. Our work involves complex field environments with various potential hazards, and we believe every task can be executed safely through careful planning, hazard identification, risk mitigation, and regulatory compliance. EKI empowers employees at all levels to take ownership of safety, communicate openly about risks, and stop work when conditions are unsafe. Through on-going training, leadership support, and continuous improvement, we reinforce a shared responsibility for safety while delivering high-quality, environmentally responsible solutions.
Our People Make the Difference
Our staff includes professional engineers, professional geologists, certified hydrogeologists, environmental scientists, data engineers and scientists, computer-aided designers, geographic information system (GIS) specialists, and relational database specialists.
Proven Partnership
Over 90% of our work is through referrals or new business with
existing clients.
Built to
Last
13% of EKI staff have been with
the company for 15 years
or more.
We’re
Invested
In April 2014, EKI became
an employee-owned
company.
Diverse,
Inclusive
EKI is proud to be a multi-cultural and multi-lingual company with staff from all over the world, such as the Philippines, United Arab Emirates, Mexico, China, India, Chile, Iran, Ethiopia, and Palestine.
Women in
Leadership
Women hold EKI’s top executive roles including Chief Executive Officer, President, Chief Operating Officer, and Chief Financial Officer.