Career Investigator

GFA is a family of professionals that serve our surrounding communities and businesses through excellence in service; on time, within budget, and entirely focused on client success. Utilizing and empowering our greatest competitive advantage, the staff of GFA, we endeavor every single day to be a leading progressive, multi-disciplined professional design firm offering engineering, surveying, testing, planning, and related services to our clients, always aspiring towards improved quality of life for all involved. GFA now employs a staff of more than 30 professional engineers, professional surveyors, designers, drafters, construction technicians, and support staff. 

We pride ourselves on an outstanding record of continued growth, expansion of services, and the provision of top-quality services to our clients.  The growth and reputation of the firm are the direct outcome of individual and team efforts and close cooperation by all of our associates.  Our future success depends upon the continuation of these efforts and adherence to professional standards and ideals.

At GFA you’ll be a part of a team working on a wide array of projects that have tangible impacts on the communities and clients we help. We offer competitive wages, benefits, a 401K program, and profit-sharing. Our company is owned by active, working employees. If your dream is to one day own part of a company, that’s something that can honestly happen here. At GFA, we develop our employee skills leading to career advancement opportunities within our company.

We partner very closely with Northwestern Michigan College to train current and potential employees, especially in the Surveying and Marine Technology programs. This partnership includes paid internship opportunities while studying for these Associate degrees.