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This week is Engineer’s Week, and we want to take a moment to celebrate all our hard-working engineers! Bet you didn’t know the Metroparks had an engineering department, and you might be asking why? The Metroparks have expert thought leaders in multiple departments including engineering, and it allows us to deliver really strong impacts to our region. From project design to construction and everything in between, our engineers work hard to fulfill our community needs and ensure that park projects and infrastructure are safe, up to code and built to last for years to come. Here is a glimpse into the work our engineers do on a daily basis and what makes them so unique. And shoutout to Mike Henkel, the Chief of Engineering Services who leads this team! #engineering #engineeringjobs #engineersweek #parksandrecreation #thoughtleadership

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A lot of people are surprised that the metro parks has an engineering department and I think one of the things that amazes people is the amount of assets that we manage. We have water infrastructure, roads, bridges, all that get inspected and taken care of. Especially with like the design engineers, we get involved a lot and all of the budgeting kind of how to make the real big ideas for the grants and how the best kind of work those into the parks. So I think my job is important to the metro parks to kind of help design and maintain all of those facilities that the public using though. It's just trying to make sure all that stuff is safe and maintained. My favorite part of the job is the huge variety of work. I think that's better than a lot of, you know, different places within the industry. It's pretty nice being able to work on something different every day, every week. Every month. And then those same things you're, you know, friends and family are out in the public using too. I've been a civil engineer for 30 years. The last 25 years have been here with the Huron Clinton Metroparks Field. Engineers at the Metro Parks have a special role where we're actually out on the construction sites overseeing construction and doing contract administration. My favorite part of the job is actually just being out here and interacting with the public when a project actually gets complete and actually getting to see them use the finished product. Engineering, the building blocks are all the same. You know it's paving, its utilities, it's grading, but you're in the Metro parks. It's all recreation based, and just because of the vastness of the parks, the projects encompass a lot of different things. There's not a place within the Metro parks that engineering hasn't had some type of influence or touches on those operations in some form or fashion, And I don't think people always realize that. But behind the scenes, there's always an engineering input. Where that kind of comes into play, but we can't do it alone either. So it's very much a team effort. If it wasn't for our planning staff making that connection with the public to kind of help us dictate where we go with our projects and also the natural resource piece coming in with that too, It's very much a balance and it's very much cooperative. So when we're talking equity, we're talking that those spaces are accessible and that those spaces are available to everybody no matter where they're at, because we all contribute to this park. System. We all contribute to the spaces that we've all enjoyed, but if we all can't enjoy those, then we're not doing our jobs that we were sent here to do. It's not about I. And every time you hear like we'll be in meetings or something like that. And then when someone says I, I kind of have to take a step back, including myself because it really isn't about. I may have opinions, but it's not about what I want, it's about what the people of Southeast Michigan want. And that drives right into the mission. The people here working at the Metro parks, my team in particular, is fantastic to work with and they really do. Lookout for the public and how they spend dollars. So I value that and I value them as a team.

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This week is Engineer’s Week, and we want to take a moment to celebrate all our hard-working engineers! Bet you didn’t know the Metroparks had an engineering department, and you might be asking why? The Metroparks have expert thought leaders in multiple departments including engineering, and it allows us to deliver really strong impacts to our region. From project design to construction and everything in between, our engineers work hard to fulfill our community needs and ensure that park projects and infrastructure are safe, up to code and built to last for years to come. Here is a glimpse into the work our engineers do on a daily basis and what makes them so unique. And shoutout to Mike Henkel, the Chief of Engineering Services who leads this team! #engineering #engineeringjobs #engineersweek #parksandrecreation #thoughtleadership
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