Sain Team Leaders

Nathan Currie to Lead Sain’s Infrastructure Team

Earlier this year, Sain Associates promoted Nathan Currie to Team Leader for the infrastructure group. Nathan joined Sain as a Project Manager for the infrastructure team after moving to Birmingham from Atlanta in 2016. Five years later, he became a shareholder. With over 16 years of engineering experience, his background includes work with state and…
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The Power of Mentoring

When you think of mentoring, what comes to mind? An older senior executive partnering with a young up and comer? This is what most people picture, but experience has taught me it’s so much more. The window of what people often think mentoring applies to is very narrow. But it doesn’t have to be confined…
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Ensuring Employee Engagement in Your Firm

Here at Sain, we know a huge part of achieving success in our firm can be attributed to our employees, so we are constantly looking for ways to engage them. In a nutshell, employee engagement is an employee’s emotional connection with the firm’s mission and goals. By ensuring that employees are engaged, team projects go…
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New Hire and Promotions

We have big news to share! We are excited to announce the addition of Stefan Graeber, P.E., to the firm and the promotions of Alicia Bailey, P.E., and Darren Hamrick P.E., LEED AP, MSCE, to enhanced roles. Stefan Graeber, P.E., recently joined Sain Associates as Team Leader of the Civil/Site group in the Birmingham, Alabama…
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Sain’s Newest Shareholder: Jeff Stephenson, P.E., PTOE

Earlier this month, we announced the formation of a company ownership program designed to expand company ownership opportunities to three key levels: associate, principal, and senior principal. With the new program, Sain added three new associates – Nathan Currie, P.E., Paul Gilliam, P.E., PTOE, and Jeff Stephenson, P.E., PTOE. Over the next couple of months,…
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Company Ownership and New Shareholders

We have big news to share! Sain Associates is excited to announce the formation of a company ownership program designed to expand company ownership opportunities to three key levels: associate, principal, and senior principal. With this new program, we added three new associates — Nathan Currie, Paul Gilliam, and Jeff Stephenson. Nathan Currie, P.E., is…
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Teamwork Makes the Dream Work

One of my favorite quotes from Jim Meads is “I’m not up in the stands; I’m on the playing field with you.”  When you are in charge of managing a design project, it’s always helpful to know “who is on the playing field” with you.  An easy way to describe how we staff a design project…
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