BL Companies | Employee Handbook | 2022

BL Companies, an employee-owned firm, is a leader in delivering high- quality, integrated architecture, engineering, environmental, land surveying and related services to public and private clients for land development, building design and infrastructure projects. Founded in 1986 as a small transportation, planning and civil engineering firm, BL Companies has grown to become a leading firm sought after for our quality, creativity and expertise in producing successful project outcomes. We are dedicated to total client satisfaction. Our success is founded in our employee owners and a culture that inspires challenges and insists on nothing short of professional excellence. Historically listed in the Top 500 Design Firms in the Country by Engineering News Record, BL Companies has offices in Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Texas. As a 100% employee-owned Company, we advocate a team approach and strive to formulate long term relationships with our clients and business partners. We believe there is no limit to what a team can do when working in a true partnership. Supplying clients with creative solutions based on a collaborative process assures a result that is greater than the sum of its parts. BL Companies encourages professionalism, teamwork, innovation, leadership and continued improvement. BL Companies expects employee owners to treat each project and each client with the utmost respect, the required confidentiality and the highest level of professionalism and expertise. Employee owners at BL Companies are the foundation of our existence as a firm and a professional community. We help support our employees in finding the right balance between work and life. We are pleased to be an employee-owned, team- oriented company where every individual shares in each other’s successes. BL Companies strives to provide a pleasant working atmosphere, a competitive wage and benefit package and ample opportunity for challenge.

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