Volkert, Inc. Tech Stack
Infrastructure engineering firm designing transportation, water, and port systems across the Southeast
Volkert is a 1,001–5,000-person infrastructure engineering firm founded in 1925, now focused on transportation, water, and environmental design. The tech stack is purely domain-specific (MicroStation, Civil 3D, GIS, HEC-RAS, VISSIM) with no cloud infrastructure, data platforms, or modern DevOps tooling — typical of traditional AEC firms where CAD and simulation software are the core. Hiring is heavily skewed to engineering (316 of 339 open roles) with senior/mid-level dominance, signaling replacement demand rather than growth; concurrently, pain points cluster around scope management, budget control, and pipeline development, indicating operational maturity challenges rather than product-market fit gaps.
Tech Stack 38 technologies
What Volkert, Inc. Is Building
◆Challenges
- Scope changes affecting budgets
- Timely and cost-effective completion
- Budget and schedule constraints
- Expanding ports practice
- Meeting dot expectations, schedules and budgets
- Client billing accuracy
- Budget control
- Meeting project goals on time and on budget
- Pipeline development of civil engineering work
- Expand services across southwest region
▲Active Projects
- Traffic signal design plans
- Temporary traffic control plan
- East gulf transportation design projects
- Transportation modeling
- East gulf alternative delivery projects
- Water transmission and distribution system design
- Stormwater bmp design
- Erosion and sediment control
- Treatment plant rehabilitation and expansions
- Airport improvement programs
Hiring Activity
Department
Seniority
Notable leadership hires: Water/Wastewater Lead, Roadway Design Lead, Drainage Lead, Business Development Director, Survey Crew Chief
