June 26, 2024
Michael Melan
Principal
Waste Management
224.230.9914
mmelan@cecinc.com
CEC Chicago welcomes Michael Melan as a Principal in its Waste Management Practice. Michael brings nearly 40 years of experience to his new role.
Over the course of his career, he has managed and provided troubleshooting for solid waste technical design issues, developed and managed capital and operation budgets, performed landfill operations P&L budget reviews, coordinated landfill construction projects, and performed construction CQA and monitoring reviews.
Most recently, Michael worked for a major solid waste company in Indiana as a District Manager managing operations and personnel after transitioning from a Site Engineer position serving multiple sites throughout Illinois. That role included maintaining compliance and managing a ~$10M annual construction project budget.
He served as Team Environmental Manager for a major waste management company in Indiana leading a team managing various construction projects related to liner, leachate collection, and gas collection and control systems. Among his responsibilities here, Michael managed a $15M-$20M annual capital budget and portions of a $20M annual operations budget.
A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater with a degree in Geography and Regional Planning, Michael is looking forward to the expansion of Chicago’s Waste Management Practice.
About CEC Chicago
The CEC Chicago office, situated in Naperville, currently offers services across Illinois, extending into Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Although our company has the capacity to operate anywhere in the continental United States, as well as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, our primary focus remains on projects within our local area.
Since commencing operations in January 2001 with a portfolio centered around environmental projects for Fruit of the Loom, we have progressively expanded our presence in the solid waste market sector by establishing a field service operations and maintenance team. By 2012, we enhanced our offerings to include air quality services and strengthened our civil and geotechnical engineering capabilities. In 2018, we launched a survey practice, which has led to our current engagement in a second multi-year, multi-million dollar survey staffing contract, along with two additional survey contracts with the Illinois Department of Transportation. The acquisition of Roake and Associates, Inc. in December 2018 further enriched our civil engineering and surveying resources and significantly broadened our real estate and land development client base. Recently, we added Cultural Resources to our Chicago service lineup to further develop this vital area of our operations.
As a multi-disciplinary and highly skilled firm, we are committed to delivering exceptional service to our clients.
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