Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc. (CEC) is an employee-owned engineering and environmental consulting firm founded in 1989. With over 1,500 employees across 31 offices in the United States, the firm operates across technical domains including civil engineering, environmental engineering and sciences, water resources, air quality, waste management, and survey and geospatial services. Its client base spans manufacturing, mining, oil and gas, power, public sector, real estate, and solid waste industries.
For cybersecurity professionals, the threat landscape here is rooted in operational technology and industrial control systems. CEC's work in manufacturing infrastructure services, waste management, and power sector consulting means the firm's networks touch environments where IT/OT convergence is real - SCADA systems, geospatial data pipelines, and environmental monitoring infrastructure all present attack surfaces that demand defenders who understand both enterprise networks and the physical-world systems they connect to.
The firm's employee-ownership model means employees become owners within their first year, a structure that tends to drive longer tenure and institutional knowledge - relevant when you're securing systems where domain context matters as much as technical chops. With 31 offices distributed across the U.S., the security posture has to account for a geographically dispersed workforce operating across multiple industry verticals, each with its own regulatory and compliance framework.
