Employee-owned civil engineering firm for transportation, municipal and water work
Ayres Associates is an Eau Claire-based civil engineering firm whose stack centers on Bentley OpenRoads/MicroStation alongside AutoCAD Civil 3D, a dual-platform setup typical of firms serving multiple state DOTs. Hiring is accelerating and overwhelmingly engineering- and senior-weighted. Job posts point to a push into Colorado, Wyoming and Utah transportation markets plus growth in municipal water and dam safety inspection.
Notable leadership hires: Municipal Engineering Lead, Market Growth Director
Ayres Associates is a privately held, employee-owned engineering firm founded in 1959 and headquartered in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, with 201–500 employees. It provides civil and municipal engineering, transportation, environmental, geospatial, landscape architecture, MEP, planning, river engineering and water resources, structural design and inspection, and subsurface utility engineering. Clients include public agencies such as state transportation departments and municipalities. Field services span land surveying, aerial mapping, construction staking and construction inspection.
Ayres Associates uses AutoCAD Civil 3D, OpenRoads Designer, MicroStation, Trimble Business Center, Revit, SAP2000, Mathcad, Bluebeam Revu, Autodesk Construction Cloud, VISSIM, GIS and LiDAR, with .NET, VBA and LISP for automation.
Yes. Hiring is accelerating and dominated by engineering, mostly at senior level, with additional construction roles and leadership openings such as Municipal Engineering Lead and Market Growth Director, all in the United States.
Job posts cite transportation projects for CDOT, WYDOT and WisDOT, municipal water and wastewater work, water main and sewer inspection, ALTA surveys, transportation construction management, and a new practice in Utah.
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