Tag Archives: Culture

Empowering Employees: Spotlighting EHS Coordinator Zah’Kyah Linton

Dudek has a dynamic, employee-driven safety culture that thrives on participation and engagement. Our commitment to safety is deeply rooted in the belief that every employee plays a crucial role in fostering a safe work environment. This employee-led approach is exemplified by our Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS) team, including staff like Zah’Kyah Linton. As

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How Employee Ownership Drives Dudek’s Long-Term Success

Dudek’s culture is the bedrock of our identity and operations. One significant driver and example of our culture is employee ownership. Employee-owned since 2003, in 2021, we transitioned to a 100% employee-owned structure through our Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). This was a pivotal point in our history, sustaining the firm’s success through leadership succession.

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Putting People at the Center: Spotlighting EHS Manager Gonzalo Llamas

At Dudek, safety transcends company policy to become a deeply ingrained culture, upheld by five core principles: teamwork, training and reporting, responsibility, trust and communication, and commitment and involvement. While safety is a collective duty, our Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS) team spearheads these efforts, driven by dedicated leaders such as Gonzalo Llamas, Dudek’s EHS

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How We’re Celebrating Staff Milestones and Serving Local Communities by Planting Trees

Since 2018, Dudek has recognized and honored Dudekian service milestones by donating to the Arbor Day Foundation for the planting of trees in Klamath National Park. While this was a great concept, the exact location of “Dudek’s” trees remained ambiguous and we found ourselves wanting to make a more tangible, local impact. So, in 2021,

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How Dudek’s Sustainability and IT Teams Turned “Worthless” E-Waste into an Opportunity to Give Back and Be Green

Due to materials in technology equipment, e-waste needs to be handled differently from regular trash as the materials can create environmental and health risks when incinerated, put in landfills, or melted down. Up until 2021, Dudek had been in the practice of reselling much of our old IT equipment to a third party, recouping the

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Dudek Secures Future by Moving to 100% ESOP Ownership

Dudek invests in its employees and preserves a four-decade-long employee ownership culture by moving to 100% ESOP ownership. Encinitas, CA – October 11, 2021 – Dudek, a leading multidisciplinary, environmental, and engineering consulting firm, today announced that it has moved from being partially to wholly owned by the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) as of

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DuGreen 2020 Success by the Numbers

DuGreen Mission ​We are Dudekians working to improve our environmental footprint. We are passionate about the environment and want to help Dudek become a more environmentally sustainable company. We aim to create a more eco-friendly workplace by establishing company-wide best practices and educating staff on green practices they can implement in the office and at

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