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Innovating Infrastructure. Empowering Progress.

For over 85 years, we’ve delivered bold, forward-thinking solutions that shape safer, smarter and more resilient communities across the country and beyond.

A Leader in Engineering, Consulting and Technology services Providing Innovative Infrastructure Solutions

Michael Baker International is a leading provider of engineering, consulting and technology services spanning four distinct verticals: Infrastructure, Integrated Design and Advisory (IDA), Mitigation, Environmental, Response, Recovery & Resiliency (MER3) and GovTech. The firm’s Practices encompass all facets of infrastructure, including design and civil engineering for diverse bridge, highway, water, rail and transit and aviation projects, as well as planning, architecture, environmental and construction and program management. 

Based in Pittsburgh and with more than 120 offices nationwide, we serve as a trusted adviser to the communities we serve, making them safer, more accessible, more sustainable and more prosperous.

We provide visionary leadership in facilitating transformational change for our clients. Our work delivers differentiating innovations and dedicated experts who challenge the status quo and share a world of diverse experience and an impassioned entrepreneurial spirit. We deliver quality of life.

We Make a Difference.

Our Mission Statement

To be the best professional services company in the industry, where We Make a Difference by continuously innovating and delivering outstanding service to our clients and providing our people with fulfilling careers and make a demonstrable difference in the communities in which we live and serve.

Our Purpose

Our purpose is to demonstrate how We Make a Difference by continuously innovating and improving our service to our clients, our people and the communities we serve. We accomplish this by:

  • Advising our clients on how to effectively and efficiently reach their goals.
  • Developing our people personally and professionally.
  • Serving our communities through caring and engaging them in our work.
  • Delivering the financial performance necessary to reinvest in our company and our people.
 

Strategic Imperatives for Growth

Client Engagement

We strive to build strong, long-term partnerships that put our clients’ needs and aspirations first.

  • Serve as trusted advisors and catalysts for change
  • Bring innovative and cost-effective solutions to the most complex infrastructure challenges
  • Create a full-service client experience

Employee Experience

We cultivate a performance-driven culture that recognizes achievement and fosters an impassioned entrepreneurial spirit.

  • Place high value on creating a sense of community and a culture of stewardship within our Pack
  • Support education and training; invest in development
  • Hire the best and reward excellence

Operational Excellence

We develop and manage processes that drive safety, productivity, efficiency and cost-effectiveness in support of organizational growth.

  • We encourage innovation, creativity, collaboration and continuous improvement
  • Leverage our expertise and experience to manage project scope, schedule and budget
  • Refine our Core Operating Systems to raise our quality standard in client service

Culture Of Excellence

The Five Knows

Know Your Clients

Anticipate client needs and focus on being solutions-oriented to deepen our relationships.

Know Your People

Understand our people’s strengths and their abilities and commit to their growth and development.

Know Your Business

Promote our capabilities, know our competitive position in the markets we serve and stay ahead of industry trends.

Know Your Math

A comprehensive understanding of our business is required to understand the return we see from the investments we make in people, processes and initiatives.

No Complacency

We must never stand still; we commit to our work with passion and constantly strive for excellence.

Leadership Model

Lead Yourself

  • Be a stellar communicator
  • Adopt a passionate, positive and professional attitude
  • Be highly accountable
  • Do the right thing
  • Be agile, resilient and a self-starter
  • Demonstrate a focus on details

Lead Others

  • Coach and develop; lead by example
  • Inspire and enable other to succeed
  • Assume positive intent
  • Embrace differences
  • Engage thoughtfully and listen
  • Be available and accessible

Lead the Business

  • Think/act with the whole business in mind
  • Engage in robust industry involvement
  • Drive performance
  • Lead change and innovation
  • Deliver superior client engagement

Wolf Pack Philosophy

“…the strength of the Pack is the Wolf and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack…”

Michael Baker International embraces the philosophy that we are stronger together. Our Pack knows “why” we work together. Our Pack members share a passion for one another, make sacrifices for a common objective and truly care for and trust one another. Our Pack is both competitive and fearless and able to greet each challenge as an opportunity. Our Pack is empathetic and selfless.

We may act autonomously at times; however, we remain unified. Our Pack is efficient and effective. It considers the well-being of others and understands the importance of health, family and community. Our Pack helps those in need and treats others as we would want to be treated. Our Pack values loyalty, inclusiveness, diversity and equality. Our Pack is direct, transparent, candid, honest and humble and demonstrates uncompromising integrity.

Michael Baker’s approach to Resilience and Sustainability comprises three key components:

Social

  • We deliver lasting impact through the engineering, planning and consulting services we provide, which foster and preserve the culture, history and shared values of the communities where we live and work.
  • We encourage and celebrate team members who Make a Difference in communities locally and internationally, through initiatives such as beach and highway cleanups, STEM education, food donations and our corporate investment in Bridges to Prosperity programs and projects.

Economic

  • We integrate economic health, growth and opportunity as an essential component of resilience and sustainability for our clients, our communities and our company.
  • In doing so, we leverage economic resilience strategies with our infrastructure, building, environmental, data science and technology capabilities to reduce cost, optimize investment, increase efficiency and effect positive change in the world.

Environmental

  • We consider the environment in all that we do, from how we commute to work to how we approach projects for our clients.
  • The creative solutions that drive our work for our clients and communities are informed by respect for our natural resources and the knowledge that our actions today impact the generations of tomorrow.

When it comes to serving our clients, we are passionate about making the world a better place through our designs, innovations and practices.

Learn about Michael Baker’s Resilience and Sustainability Services