Abbie Jones Consulting began in 2011 from nothing to currently 15 staff. Ms. Jones is personally, and we are corporately, a licensed professional engineer (civil) in 9 and surveyor in 5 states and counting. We also have 2 other PEs and 1 other PLS. Three of our staff are LSIT and one is EIT. We are currently working to get our junior staff licensed and actively employ college interns. We also employ current members of the military service and are glad to accommodate their drills and deployments.

 

We have been 100% remote since the beginning which uniquely prepared us for the pandemic. In fact, we were just named the KY SBA Remote (Home Based) Small Business of the year 2022! We have always been cloud-based (except if special security measures are needed). Our field staff all have modern equipment, use field to finish coding, and are expected to use laptops for basic CAD tasks. Our office staff use remote access to deed rooms and source various GIS datasets for basemaps on new projects.

 

While our private clients appreciate our good work at a good value, some clients are glad to know that we are a 100% Certified Woman-Owned Small Business. More than that, we are woman-managed and maintain around 50% female staff. We have received multiple certifications which are helpful for our government clientele. Our government clients appreciate that several of our staff have municipal experience.

 

Our energy clients appreciate that we have a great safety "rating" (you can't get EMR until 25 staff). We became large enough to trigger regular OSHA paperwork as of 2022. Our private clients appreciate that we have credentials and experience for technical challenges and property disputes.

 

We provide a variety of corporate benefits which continue to expand. We actively help staff get licensed and create individualized growth ladder plans. We pay for licensure and continuing education. We provide an AFLAC policy for all staff (FT and PT), a 3% match retirement account(FT and PT), workplace and work time flexibility, some maternity leave, military leave/flexibility, and of course laptops for all staff. Our initial offer letters take into consideration healthcare as our geographic spread does not make a single policy work for our small firm.