Scott Newland

About Scott Newland

As the Infrastructure Market Leader for Burns & McDonnell, I oversee the firm’s Water, Transportation and Environmental Services Groups, helping to leverage collective knowledge in related markets to create essential synergies and efficiencies. In my career, I led multiple billion+ programs through the planning, permitting, engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning phases. I have the ability to manage large-scale complex projects and teams. This experience has led to responsibilities in business development and operations management at Burns & McDonnell. Since joining Burns & McDonnell in as a structural engineer in the Transmission & Distribution group, I’ve developed an extensive background in electric transmission.I live in Chicago with my wife and three children. I enjoy golf, and participating in cycling events such as the Pan Mass Challenge, an annual 190-mile ride through Massachusetts to raise funds for cancer research. My current community outreach includes supporting the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Chicagoland and United Way Tocqueville Society. I’m also committed to kindling children’s interest in STEM education through various partnerships aimed at promoting STEM curriculum in public school classrooms. I love helping our customers solve problems and helping employee-owners achieve their full potential. If you’d like to chat about your business needs or you are interested in working for Burns & McDonnell, send me an email at s•••••••@burnsmcd.com.

Experience

1. Infrastructure Market Leader

   Burns & McDonnell

   May 1999 — Present

   I currently am senior vice president and Infrastructure Market leader, bringing together our Water, Transportation and Environmental Services Groups to further strengthen our services to infrastructure clients. Prior to my current role, I served as senior vice president and regional manager of Burns & McDonnell’s Great Lakes Region, and focus on office operations, business development, strategic business decisions, business planning, staffing, contract negotiations, and branding for eight distinct groups in six locations in the upper Midwest. Our Chicago office has been recognized as a Best Place to Work in Illinois since 2014.Before leading the Great Lakes Region, I served as vice president for Burns & McDonnell’s New England Region, where my primary professional responsibilities included staffing, business development, contract negotiations, marketing and regional office business planning. Throughout my years with Burns & McDonnell, I’ve been fortunate enough to have served in a variety of roles across the country including program manager responsible for the management of the New England East-West Solution (NEEWS) program within Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. NEEWS is a $1.5 billion electric transmission program including new 345-kV transmission circuits and upgrades to 115-kV circuits.I also served as project manager for two years, where I was charged with overseeing the 345-kV XLPE underground transmission portion of the 345-kV Middletown to Norwalk Project.I started my career in Kansas City, Missouri, as a structural engineer and then transferred to many locations around the country: Virginia for 2 years, Connecticut for 6 years, Kansas City for 6 years, and then Chicago since 2012.

Education

• University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Civil Engineering

  1994 — 1999

• University of Connecticut School of Business

  MBA

  2009 — 2011

Skills

• Program Management
• Process Scheduler
• Office Operations
• Project Planning
• Water Resources
• Drainage
• Contractors
• Conflict Resolution
• Epc
• Engineering Procurement Construction
• Land Development
• Civil Engineering
• Management
• Primavera P6
• Ms Project
• Foundation Design
• Structural Engineering
• Contract Management
• Environmental Awareness
• Engineers
• Project Estimation
• Power Generation
• Highways
• Contract Negotiation
• Concrete
• Stormwater Management
• Construction
• Cpm Scheduling
• Power Transmission
• Water
• Power Plants
• Autocad
• Construction Management
• Transmission
• Project Management
• Road
• Procurement
• Project Control
• Energy
• Electrical Transmission