Jenny Herrera started her profession at McLean, Virginia-basd contractor The Weitz Co. as a undertaking engineer and after seven years earned an assistant undertaking supervisor position. Her “go-getter mentality” alongside along with her perseverance for distinctive efficiency has made her an up-and-coming chief inside Weitz and within the Des Moines, Iowa, group the place she is predicated, her nominator stated.
As an keen adopter of latest applied sciences and initiatives, Herrera volunteered to spearhead a companywide program utilizing drones for BIM and VDC coordination and in addition serves as her enterprise unit’s DEI champion, a task that empowers one particular person inside every enterprise unit to guide and “champion” new variety, fairness and inclusion initiatives.
Off the jobsite, Herrera participates in Iowa State College’s Civil, Development and Environmental Engineering program’s Graduates Of the Final Decade (GOLD) program, which fosters profession growth, mentoring and collaborative relationships between workers, college students and younger professionals. Amongst different management roles, she has served as board secretary for the Central Iowa Path Affiliation and was co-chair of the Water Works Park Basis Program Committee.
Herrera’s nominator summed up her various background and dedication to excellence this fashion: “Every time there’s a have to step as much as volunteer, lead a committee, turn out to be concerned or strive a brand new expertise, Jenny is the primary in line.”