Why DEI?

DEI represents an excellent opportunity to prospective candidates due to three key factors: the work, the environment, and the compensation / benefits.

The Work
DEI is a professional services company with a core focus on developing engineered solutions to emergent issues—principally for nuclear power utilities. This can involve laboratory testing and product development as well as technical analysis and expert consulting. Because our focus is driven largely by our customers' continually changing needs, the type of work that we do is constantly evolving and spans a wide spectrum of technical areas. We consider the challenging and dynamic nature of our work to be one of the great aspects of working at DEI.

The Environment
DEI is a small firm with a predominantly horizontal organizational structure, and we are able to leverage our small size and simple structure to the advantage of our customers and our individual engineers. Our small staff—combined with our technical skills and strengths—allows senior and mid-level personnel to focus mainly on engineering work rather than on administrative management. In addition, all engineers are intimately familiar with the strengths and expertise of each person in the firm. This allows us to form small, highly effective teams of a few engineers for each project. Young engineers are given little by way of formal training at DEI—instead, they grow through their immersion in multiple technical projects combined with the opportunity to work with experienced and knowledgeable mid-level and senior engineers on these tasks. With a technical staff of about 20, DEI is small enough that engineers are soon able to be involved in all aspects of a project—from proposal writing to detailed technical work to direct interfacing with clients. We find this to be highly rewarding.

In addition to the expertise of our personnel, DEI offers an excellent infrastructure in which to work, including new offices, an extensive technical library, and state-of-the-art laboratory facilities. Engineers are provided with the resources necessary not only to effectively carry out projects, but to excel within our field.

The Compensation
DEI is able to offer a highly competitive compensation package, which includes an annual bonus, paid medical insurance, an employer-funded profit-sharing program, and a 401(k) retirement savings program. The benefits offered by DEI are commensurate with the high quality of the engineers on our team and the top graduates we seek.