{"id":12606,"date":"2021-12-03T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/?p=12606"},"modified":"2021-12-02T15:53:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T21:53:43","slug":"eli-engineering-firm-looks-to-hire-tech-graduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/2021\/people\/eli-engineering-firm-looks-to-hire-tech-graduates\/","title":{"rendered":"ELI engineering firm looks to hire Tech graduates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Energy Land and Infrastructure&#8217;s (ELI) president and co-owners know the quality of a Tennessee Tech engineering education. ELI, a professional engineering and survey firm focused on energy, civil and transportation infrastructure, employs approximately 60 people. And nearly a dozen of those employees &#8212; including the president and co-owners &#8212; are Tech graduates! ELI perennially ranks in Nashville Business Journal&#8217;s Top 25, based on its number of local licensed professional engineers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have 15-plus universities represented at ELI, and we have really talented people from all over the southeast,&#8221; said Thomas &#8220;Chuck&#8221; Saunders, president and owner of ELI. &#8220;But I always say Tennessee Tech is one of the best engineering schools in the southeast and best in the state. There&#8217;s a lot of practical knowledge in the graduates coming out of Tech. When I hire a Tech grad, there&#8217;s that instant comradery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the full Employer Spotlight story here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tntech.edu\/univadv\/cac\/employer-spotlight.php\">Employer Spotlight (tntech.edu)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech engineering students \u2013 especially those in civil engineering \u2013 who are interested in working for ELI are encouraged to contact ELI Human Resources Generalist Jessica Hynds at jessica.hynds@eli-llc.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Energy Land and Infrastructure&#8217;s (ELI) president and co-owners know the quality of a Tennessee Tech engineering education. ELI, a professional engineering and survey firm focused on energy, civil and transportation infrastructure, employs approximately 60 people. And nearly a dozen of those employees &#8212; including the president and co-owners &#8212; are Tech graduates! ELI perennially ranks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[23,24,22],"class_list":{"0":"post-12606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-people","8":"tag-facstaff","9":"tag-rs","10":"tag-student"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/12\/2021-12-02_61a9152aaa992_eli-employerspotlight.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12609,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12606\/revisions\/12609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}