Civil engineering and design firm for transportation and bridge infrastructure
Bloom Companies is a Milwaukee-based civil engineering firm serving government and municipal clients across highway design, bridge engineering, and transportation planning. The tech stack is dominated by specialized CAD and infrastructure design tools (AutoCAD, Civil 3D, MicroStation, Bluebeam, Trimble, GIS) — typical of the sector — with active adoption of MicroStation signaling continued investment in core design workflows. Hiring is concentrated in senior and mid-level engineering roles, with a stated pain point around acquiring bridge talent and scaling that practice, suggesting they're trying to grow specialized expertise faster than the labor market supplies it.
Bloom Companies provides design and construction engineering services to government, municipal, industrial, and commercial clients. The firm was founded in 1998 and operates from a headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with branch offices in Madison and Green Bay (Wisconsin), Chicago (Illinois), Minneapolis (Minnesota), and Boston (Massachusetts). Their service areas span highway and roadway design, bridge engineering, traffic engineering, facilities design, structural engineering, and construction management. Current project work includes bridge design and condition assessment, transportation plan development, traffic studies, and roadway construction monitoring. The firm employs 51–200 people, with engineering staff making up the majority of the active headcount.
Bloom's core design stack includes AutoCAD, Civil 3D, MicroStation, Bluebeam Revu, Revit, and Trimble surveying tools. They also use GIS, VISSIM for traffic simulation, and ProjectWise for project management.
Bloom is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and operates branch offices in Madison and Green Bay (Wisconsin), Chicago (Illinois), Minneapolis (Minnesota), and Boston (Massachusetts).
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