Story #56 - Co-Op Program

Story #56 celebrates team members that came to us through a co-op program as high school students.

SSM worked with VoTech for a Co-op program. The program was two-fold in that it helped build student’s skills, provided them work experience, and aided in filling positions for entry-level drafters on our team.

Students involved in the program were learning drafting as a part of their high school curriculum. When they were “job ready”, they were placed in companies hiring for those positions. As a part of the co-op program, students worked with SSM for a period of time, and then once graduated SSM had the option of offering a full-time position.

At SSM we have two current employees that came to us first as a part of this co-op program!

Karen Sandman is a senior designer in our Land Development team. Karen was a part of the program in the early eighties, later accepting a full time position with SSM. Karen is also one of several boomerangs at SSM!

Heather Meyers, Site and Survey CAD Manager with our Survey team was also a part of the co-op program in the early nineties. This led to her full-time hire. Heather is a part of our boomerang team as well, continuing to bring us expertise and passion for the work she does!

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