Celebrating Staff

We are excited to welcome Katie Kirkendall to KL Engineering!  She joins KL as an Engineer I on our Infrastructure Services team. Katie graduated from UW-Madison in May with her bachelor’s degree in civil engineering. She brings broad internship experience on design and construction projects involving site and stormwater engineering. She will be working out […]

We enjoyed celebrating Graham Kothbauer’s graduation from University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College of Engineering this May. He has been an intern at KL for the past two years. Graham joined KL as a full-time employee a few weeks ago. We celebrated his accomplishment with cake this week! We’re excited to have you on our structural engineering

We love being a League of American Bicyclists Bike Friendly Business. We support biking-related efforts in our community and especially in our work through designing bike lanes, multi-modal paths, and bike trails in the municipalities we serve. Each year KL provides our employees with Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Annual State Trail passes to encourage

We are excited to welcome Graham Kothbauer to KL as a full-time Structural Engineer. We also want to congratulate him on his recent graduation from University of Wisconsin-Madison! Graham has been an intern at KL since April 2022. He helped support our traffic team initially, then expressed interest in learning more about structures. This helped

Congratulations to Jared Baltes on his 5-year anniversary! “I’m grateful for the opportunities KL provides to grow my career by working on a variety of projects. One of the first projects I got to work on was North Fish Hatchery Road in the City of Fitchburg, designing signals for the McKee Road intersection. This project

Congratulations to Kevin Konyn on his 5-year anniversary! When we asked him what he likes best about working at KL, he said the #culture the biggest highlight. “The number one thing that stands out to me about working at KL is the people and culture… it feels like one big family that makes coming to

We welcome Noah Peterson and Colin Boyarski to KL Engineering! They will be gathering traffic counts this summer, along with other field tasks, based out of our Menomonie office. Both are attending UW-Eau Claire and play football for the UW-Eau Claire Blugolds. Noah is pursuing a degree in Business Management and Colin is pursuing a

A warm welcome to Alli Kohlstedt who joins our Madison team for the summer as a Transportation Intern / Technician! She will be working on design tasks using AutoCAD and Civil 3D for project plans and specifications, preparing computations and quantity estimates, and assisting with the preparation and modification of reports, presentations, schedules, applications and

We welcome Ryan Wheeler back to our Menomonie office for his second summer internship with KL! This year he will be working in the field doing construction observation on our IH 94 project. Ryan is pursuing a Civil Engineering degree at University of Wisconsin-Platteville.

Daniel Smith is joining KL for the summer as a Lighting & Electrical Intern / Technician, working out of our Madison and Germantown offices. He will be assisting with street lighting and electrical design projects. His tasks will include assisting with site reviews, infrastructure design, circuiting, and capacity analysis. He’ll be getting exposure to infrastructure

Congratulations to KL’s Chris Halverson on becoming licensed as a Designer of Electrical Systems in the State of Wisconsin. Chris is a licensed electrician with 24 years of experience on our Lighting and Electrical team in Madison.

Cooper Blazek joins our Madison office this summer as a Transportation Intern / Engineering Technician! Cooper is finishing his first year at University of Alabama-Huntsville and is exploring career options in engineering. He will be experiencing a variety of civil engineering work tasks including CAD drafting, quantity and estimate computations, traffic analysis and design, modeling,