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Overview

Kimley-Horn was founded in 1967 in Raleigh, NC as a transportation design firm. Today, the company is a full-service engineering, planning, and environmental consulting firm providing services to public and private clients nationwide.

The privately-held firm has more than 1,600 employees in over 50 offices throughout the U.S. Kimley-Horn has been recognized nationally as a great place to work. Fortune magazine ranked the firm as one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009,2010) and CE News named Kimley-Horn as the #1 Best Civil Engineering Firm to Work For (2004, 2006, 2007).
The firm's practice areas include:

Aviation
Environmental Services
Forensics
Intelligent Transportation Systems
Land Development
Transit
Transportation
Urban Planning/Landscape Design
Water Resources
Wireless Communications

Kimley-Horn is ranked 41st among the top 500 design firms in the U.S., 21st among the top 100 pure design firms, 10th among the top 100 for general building, and 16th among the top 20 transportation firms by Engineering News-Record

Culture

We’re an unusual firm. We work hard and play hard. Our firm is made up of highly motivated, ambitious, talented people. Many have made an impact where they worked before and they came to Kimley-Horn because they like to be rewarded for their work in a supportive environment. We want our employees to attain success and satisfaction at all levels — professionally, personally, and financially. We’re confident that if you join our firm, you’ll have tremendous opportunities to flourish in your own way. We structure ourselves and operate in ways that have tremendous benefits for our employees.

We work a 4 ½ day work week with a short day on Friday.
Our compensation and benefits are among the best in our industry. This allows us to attract and retain the very best employees. Employees who make outstanding contributions are rewarded through bonuses and profit sharing. We’re one of the few firms who still offer medical insurance without requiring an employee contribution. We also offer dental, life, and disability insurance, as well as generous paid personal leave and holidays.
Other unique benefits include our teamwork, extra effort, and continuous quality improvement awards given by employees to other employees. Each year, thousands of these awards are distributed and provide another tangible way for us to say “thank you” to each other.
Our growth and success are not by accident. Strategic and business planning are critical parts of our success. We have developed a roadmap of how we plan to accomplish our growth without compromising our client service, culture, or profitability.
We are fortunate to have many outstanding clients, who retain us to work on challenging and unique projects. The challenges these clients present will provide opportunities for your technical skill and level of responsibility to accelerate at a pace you’re unlikely to find at any other firm.

Benefits

Kimley-Horn’s benefits include:

Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
Generous employer paid retirement contributions (including 401K match)
Incentive-based bonuses
Employer-paid short-and long-term disability
Vision plan
Prescription drug coverage
Company paid life insurance
Employee assistance program
Flexible spending program for covering deductibles and childcare
Professional memberships/development programs/certifications
Generous personal leave and holiday schedule
Survivor income benefits
Quit smoking program
Teamwork/extra effort awards/service recognition
Worker’s compensation
Tuition reimbursement
In-house training programs

Vision

The core purpose of our firm is “to provide an environment for our people to flourish.” We want our staff to succeed personally and professionally and we provide the means for that to happen. No matter how big Kimley-Horn grows, we’ll continue to offer the opportunities and risks of entrepreneurship to every staff member who is ready for the challenge. We’ll continue to reach for new opportunities, because for every staff member to grow, the firm must grow. And we’ll never be so big that we forget how vital each of us is to the success of the whole.

Our People

The principle that steers us when hiring candidates is “hire only the best.” This applies to every position, from engineer to landscape architect to CADD technician to marketing coordinator to receptionist. And, as with all our business decisions, our core values serve as guides. Our core values are: honesty, integrity, and ethics; exceptional client service; high expectations; sharing and caring; and sustained profitability. We do our best to choose employees who share and embrace these values.

Kimley-Horn is in the business for the long-term and we’re looking for great people to be with us for the long-term. On a regular basis, recruits tell us, “It all sounds too good to be true.” Even more frequently, recently hired senior professionals will say, “If only I had joined Kimley-Horn ten years ago.” What causes these sorts of reactions? Quite simply, it’s the quality of our people, culture, clients, and approach to doing business. We invite you to learn more about us

Our Services

Kimley-Horn provides a wide range of consulting services to public and private clients for both the visible “built environment” — roadways and bridges, land development, traffic signals, water/sewer systems, airports, landscape architecture, transit systems — and the less visible elements related to these facilities, such as environmental impact assessments, public involvement programs, and traffic studies.
We are civil, transportation, and systems engineers; urban and land planners; environmental specialists; landscape architects and urban designers; and computer systems specialists. In support of these professional roles, we also hire strong administrative, business, and technical staff. We have no reason to exist except to serve our clients. Everyone in our firm subscribes to that saying – it’s why Kimley-Horn is consistently ranked among the top 500 design firms in the U.S. and has been since 1981. In 2012, our rank stands at #41. (Source: Engineering News-Record).

News

Kimley-Horn Donates Over 13 Tons of Food to Food Banks Across the Nation

As part of an ongoing internal focus on culture, Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. engaged in a two-week interoffice food drive competition. What started as a small competition to demonstrate the importance of setting goals quickly escalated into a drive for victory as offices and teams challenged each other to beat their goals. In the end, the firm donated over 27,000 pounds of food to food banks near Kimley-Horn offices across the country.

Kimley-Horn’s Provides Sustainability Services for parc24 Office Campus

Providing planning, entitlements, civil engineering, landscape and hardscape design, and environmental services, Kimley-Horn designed and developed a campus-like arrangement for 112,000 square feet of office space on five acres in the City of Vero Beach. The project will be submitted for LEED Silver certification under the U.S. Green Building Council, and if achieved, will be the first LEED-certified commercial building in Indian River County. Services provided: LEED program management, coordination and analysis, site/master planning, stormwater analysis and design, landscape architectural design, materials analysis and design.

City of La Mesa Wins WalkSanDiego's Golden Footprint Award for KHA's Allison Avenue Project

The 2011 Golden Footprint Complete Streets Award recognizes Allison Avenue as a great example of how a number of walkable community/traffic calming “tools” can work together to create a complete streets environment that successfully mixes pedestrian, bicyclists, transit, and auto uses. WalkSanDiego's Golden Footprint Awards celebrate the individuals, organizations, and local jurisdictions that have made a positive impact over the past year in making the region more walkable.

Kimley-Horn Wins Presidents Award and Award of Excellence at the 2012 Arizona ASLA Annual Awards Gala

Kimley-Horn's South Mountain Community College Library and Campus Expansion project was awarded the General Design Award of Excellence and the AzASLA's highest honor, the 2012 President's Award, at the 2012 Arizona ASLA Annual Awards Gala. The project was recognized by an out-of-state jury comprised of design professionals from various disciplines including landscape architecture, planning, architecture, academia, and art. The jury stated: “This project creates a beautiful and elegant dialogue between landscape architecture and architecture. It embraces its context through the selection of appropriate plant materials and water consumption. The simplicity and massing of the plants and site materials uses principles of rhythm, texture, and form in a progressive and thoughtful manner that will most certainly mature into a beautifully performing landscape.”

The 2011 Engineering Excellence, Grand Award Presented to Kimley-Horn

Kimley-Horn was recognized for the City Plaza in Raleigh, NC by the American Council of Engineering Companies of North Carolina (ACEC/NC)

Kimley-Horn designed the City Plaza and two southernmost blocks of the Fayetteville Street corridor. The open-air plaza is a technologically advanced, accessible social space that accommodates multiple events, including concerts, parades, and festivals. In addition to event flexibility, the area functions first and foremost as a street, with improved vehicular and pedestrian connectivity. This complex high-profile project, which incorporates the critical design criteria identified through an extensive public involvement process, opened on time and within budget, and has drawn tens of thousands of people to downtown Raleigh.

Kimley-Horn Transforms Durham Centre Parking Deck

The Kimley-Horn parking team recently renovated a 3-level parking deck in Durham, NC, complete with structural repairs, improved traffic flow, a green rooftop plaza, and aesthetic upgrades. Featured in the October issue of Parking magazine and online at Parking Network, the article details the complete transformation of the Durham Centre parking deck.

The Washington Post Praises Kimley-Horn's Long Bridge Park

After nearly a decade of work, Kimley-Horn’s Long Bridge Park project, located in Arlington, VA, is entering its final stages of construction. Completing the multimodal transportation element to the park master plan, transportation design, construction phase services, and environmental assessment, the firm helped transform a brownfield, industrial site into a park complete with soccer fields and esplanade. Read more from The Washington Post.