Diversity & Inclusion at CDM Smith

Cultural Diversity Makes a Difference

As a global organization with more than 125 offices across the world, our employees come from a variety of backgrounds and cultures. By creating an internal culture where everyone feels welcome and treated fairly, we can connect with each other and our clients to create innovative solutions, deliver excellent client service and embrace sound business practices. This aligns with our goal of becoming the employer of choice by attracting and retaining the industry’s top talent to lead our organization to long-term sustained and profitable growth. As our business services have grown and diversified across the world, we remain committed to having an inclusive workplace where everyone is valued for his or her ideas, experiences and contributions.

Building an Inclusive Environment

Our employees are the heart and soul of our company, so creating an inclusive working environment where everyone feels they can be their best self, share their points-of-view and learn from each other, ultimately, positions our firm to make a greater impact in the communities we serve.

Working Parents Network

During these unprecedented times, parents are challenged with balancing workload, taking care of family needs & supporting child education. CDM Smith’s Working Parents Network is a Yammer community designed to share general tips, ideas & lessons learned on work-life balance. It has been an especially helpful forum in brainstorming solutions caused by the extended impacts of COVID-19.

Women's Forum & Leadership Network

Women's Forum & Leadership Network

The CDM Smith Women’s Forum is a grassroots effort started and supported by many of the women in our firm. The group, hosted on our internal social networking platform, provides opportunities for relationship building, career development, mentorship and social progress within the organization. The Women’s Leadership Network (WLN) mission is to foster a culture that promotes women’s professional and personal development through opportunities that enable women to be empowered, engaged and successful at all levels of CDM Smith.

Young Professional Forum

Young Professional Forum

LIFT (Leading Innovation For Tomorrow) is designed for CDM Smith’s young professionals to develop their social, professional and civic skills. Local office chapters have been formed across the organization so that employees are able to connect and share learning opportunities with one another as they grow in their careers.

Work/Life Balance

The New Parent Transition Program allows new fathers and mothers the opportunity to work a reduced schedule immediately following the birth, adoption or foster care of a child. Our Flexible Work Options program provides opportunities for new and alternative ways to work. We view flexibility as a way of doing business, allowing our employees to be productive and clients to be best served.

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Military Leave

CDM Smith complies with the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA)—providing time off to employees who attend active military duty, National Guard or Reserve training.

In celebration of International Women's Day, we asked amazing women working in water about their career journeys, inspirations, and perspectives. Here some of their stories in our "Women Impacting Water" video series.

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Taken a break from your STEM career? Ready to work again? CDM Smith's Reboot Re-Entry Program is a 16-week career placement to you get back in the game.

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ACEC's Engineering Inc. magazine featured our Reboot Re-Entry Program in their Spring 2020 issue focused on diversity and inclusion.

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Recruiting the Best

One of our major recruiting objectives is to ensure that our workforce reflects the communities we live in and serve. To accomplish this, we have developed partnerships with diverse student organization chapters and universities, such as the:

National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)
Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE)
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University—a historically black college or university (HBCU)
Society of Military Engineers (SAME)

CDM Smith recruiting booth at Georgia Tech

CDM Smith recruiting staff at Georgia Tech!

https://www.cdmsmith.com/en/Careers

Visit our Careers page to learn more about our opportunities, apply or join our talent network.

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https://cdmsmith.recsolu.com/external/events_central

See a list of upcoming career fairs and events CDM Smith is scheduled to attend. Pre-register for an event near you.

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Learning for Tomorrow

Through CDM Smith University, we offer a variety of virtual and instructor-led courses, including:

Multi-Generational Team Management
Diversity Recruiting
Managing Diversity

We continue to review and update our course offerings to provide managers and employees with the tools necessary to support a diverse and inclusive work environment.

Diversity Training

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CDM Smith Cares is an employee-led volunteer outreach program fostering community development, promoting education and supporting multi-national/cultural programs like Engineers Without Borders and Water For People.

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Our commitment to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment

CDM Smith is committed to providing a work environment free from discrimination, harassment, bullying and retaliation (victimization), and providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants in accordance with governing laws in the countries in which we operate. All employees will be treated with dignity and respect and receive fair and consistent treatment regardless of where they work.

Learn more about policies that support our diversity and inclusion efforts:

Global Anti-Harassment/Anti-Discrimination Policy

U.S. Affirmative Action Policy

U.S. Anti-Harassment/Anti-Discrimination Policy

Canada Anti-Harassment/Anti-Discrimination Policy