Women to Watch: The Women of Mortenson

Pictured from left: Elizabeth Erfling, project manager; Nubia Galindo, project manager; Maja Rosenquist, senior vice president; Carly Porter, assistant project manager; Marsha Nelson, community affairs specialist; Emily Sumner, assistant project manager; Chantel Columna, assistant project manager; Olga Villalobos, block mason foreman; Kate Maples, senior estimator; Claudia Saucedo, general foreman; Jen Riedl, senior business development manager. Photo by Scott Colby

Women to Watch: Mortenson

This article is part of a special advertising section on Colorado's women in business. Women in Colorado are making an impact in every industry, enterprise and workplace role imaginable. They are CEOs, startup founders, strategists and irreplaceable employees who not only are instrumental in their own organization’s success; through their daily actions and achievements, they set a precedent of possibilities for the next generation of women in business to build upon. Each article profiles the person behind the business and organization that a Colorado woman has helped build or nurture.

The construction industry has traditionally been viewed as a male-dominated field; however, the number of women both managing projects and in craftworker roles has been increasing. Which is why at Mortenson, our goal is to build a talent pipeline for women.

Women are now integrated across all facets of our business from project engineers to superintendents and laborers to electricians. At Mortenson, 34% of our workforce is women and nearly 10% of our craftworkers are women.

To continue to build this pipeline of women entering the industry, we work to expose the youth in our community to the opportunities for career pathways in our industry.

Mortenson is a builder, developer and provider of energy and engineering services. The company was founded in 1954 and has a number of offices across North America, including in Denver. It provides services across the board from consulting and business strategy to project development, planning and design to facility management, construction and optimization of real estate and facility assets. 

Mortenson has been building in Colorado since 1981. It has over 600 Denver-based salaried and craft team members. This office serves a variety of industries and markets. This includes corporate, healthcare, higher education, renewable energy, manufacturing, hospitality, sports, bioscience, infrastructure, museums, performing arts and municipal. 

Mortenson
1621 18th St Suite 400, Denver, CO 80202
Phone: (303) 295-2511

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