MEP Jessica Vogel Applies Her Electrical Engineering Skills to Energy Work
Jessica Vogel is about to oversee a project close-out meeting with first responders, a contractor and facilities personnel at a New Jersey high school where a rooftop solar array has just been installed. But there is a problem: The first responders are a no-show. Without them, the meeting becomes a get-together, and Vogel is left to make another trip to the school for a run-through with them about how the system works and what to do if there is an emergency. The 28-year-old mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineer takes it all in stride, however, as she is used to changes. That's a good thing because her career has been full of them.
"It happens," she says of the no-shows, an attitude cultivated first as an MEP at PMK Group and next as senior energy engineer at Birdsall Services Group (BSG), which acquired PMK in 2009. Just weeks ago, after BSG filed for bankruptcy, she became senior project manager at Luthin Associates' energy services unit. Flexibility, she says, goes with the territory.