May 17, 2023

PACE Engineers

Emmerson

Mealue

Kohn

Turner

Weller

Vestal

Heldstab

Wilburn

PACE Engineers, Inc. has welcomed eight new employees following the firm's recent CES|NW acquisition: Tony Weller, Eliza Turner, Paul Kohn, Ben Mealue, Fallon Emerson, Jerreme Wilburn, Jesse Heldstab and Eric Vestal.

Weller, PE, PLS, now a senior principal engineer in PACE's Municipal Department, has over 45 years of experience designing and managing numerous public and private civil engineering, construction, and surveying projects. His experience includes working in two city engineering departments and volunteer/elected positions serving the City of Tualatin and the Washington County area.

Turner joins PACE as an accounting professional. She brings over 12 years of experience with four of those being an accounting assistant. Turner manages vendors, vendor invoices, process expense reports, and more.

Kohn, PLS, joins PACE as a principal surveyor and brings over 35 years of experience in land surveying. Over 20 of those years have been in leadership roles working on public projects, private land development projects that include boundary and topographic surveys, large-scale utility surveys, ALTA surveys, and large-scale construction surveys.

Mealue, EIT, is now an engineering intern at PACE. He has over 15 years of experience in project management, design engineering, and construction. Mealue's engineering experience includes roadway, waterline, sanitary sewer, storm drainage treatment and control, grading and erosion control, and site development projects. Mealue is experienced in AutoCAD Civil 3D modeling.

Emerson joins PACE's survey team as a survey field technician. With over 19 years of experience, he has extensive knowledge in topographic mapping, construction staking, industrial surveys, boundary surveys, quality control and monitoring.

Wilburn also joins PACE's survey team as a survey field technician and licensed drone pilot with over 26 years of survey experience. He is proficient in topographical surveys, ALTA surveys, condominium surveys, horizontal and vertical control surveys, construction staking, boundary, and GPS Control surveys.

Heldstab, is now a survey technician at PACE. He brings over 12 years of land surveying experience and is a registered drone pilot. He is proficient with boundary surveys, topographic surveys, construction staking, corner restorations, legal description writing, and GPS and RTK surveys.

Vestal also joins PACE as a survey field technician and brings over 16 years of land surveying experience. Vestal's main responsibilities will be managing a field crew, maintaining, and calibrating equipment to ensure the gathering of good data, and overseeing that data is transferred to the project managers. On the project sites, he will determine how to best complete the task and what equipment to use. Vestal is proficient in construction staking, survey practices, GPS, Trimble data collectors, and total stations.