Heavy industrial engineering and design consulting for manufacturing and process facilities
Progressive Design is a 51–200-person engineering consulting firm founded in 1986 and now woman-owned, operating out of Midlothian, Virginia. The tech stack is dominated by legacy CAD/CAM (AutoCAD, Revit, Plant 3D, MicroStation) and industrial automation tools (DCS, SCADA, Primavera P6) — a profile consistent with capital-project-driven consulting. Hiring is engineering-heavy with a senior/mid bias, and active pain points around construction costs and billable utilization suggest a services firm optimizing labor leverage and project delivery margins.
Progressive Design provides engineering consulting across the full project lifecycle — from feasibility and design through startup — serving Fortune 500 manufacturers in chemicals, pharmaceuticals, power, food and beverage, metals, and discrete manufacturing. Services span EPC/turnkey projects, process design and upgrades, environmental compliance, industrial capital projects, and construction cost estimation. The firm operates as a multi-discipline consulting house with in-house expertise in process engineering, mechanical design, and project management, supporting both greenfield and retrofit work.
AutoCAD, Revit, 3D CAD, AutoCAD Plant 3D, Bentley MicroStation, and RISA 3D for structural work. Project management relies on Oracle Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project.
Chemical, pharmaceutical, power, food and beverage, metals, plastics, paper, tobacco, films, fibers, and discrete manufacturing — primarily Fortune 500 clients.
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