SCS reconfigures executive staff

Curtis Jang assumes the role of president at the California-based waste and recycling engineering and consulting firm.

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Left to right: Stacey Dolden, Eddy Smith, Steve Liggins, Doug Doerr, Nathan Hamm, Curtis Jang and Jay Hatho of SCS Engineers.
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SCS Engineers, a Long Beach, California-based environmental engineering firm with a focus on the waste and recycling sectors, has reconfigured its executive leadership team after holding its semiannual board of directors meeting recently under the guidance of board Chair Jim Walsh and CEO Doug Doerr.

In the new configuration, Curtis Jang assumes the role of president, calling upon a 30-year tenure in financial management and organizational improvement.

“To ensure our continued success and to position ourselves for future growth, I’ve entrusted several key individuals to assume new executive roles,” Doerr says. “As one of the country’s foremost environmental engineering firms experiencing remarkable growth, it is imperative that we equip ourselves for the challenges and opportunities ahead.”

In his role as president, Jang will collaborate closely with Doerr and the rest of the newly appointed executive leadership team, “prioritizing the welfare of its employee-owners, fostering a cohesive ‘One SCS’ ethos, and delivering unparalleled service to our valued clients,” the company says.

Eddy Smith has assumed the role of chief operating officer. In that role he “will lead business strategies across various units and practices to foster enhanced collaboration companywide, thereby enhancing value delivery to clients,” according to SCS.

Smith has more than three decades of experience in environmental and civil engineering design and consulting.

Chief Financial Officer Steve Liggins, with 17 years of experience, will oversee finance and accounting functions at SCS Engineers.

Stacey Dolden, has been named chief people officer, with a commission to “spearhead the company’s intensified focus on enhancing the employee experience.” He has 24 years of human resources experience.

Jay Hatho, a 25-year corporate veteran, serves as the chief information and chief technology officer of SCS. In that role he will lead the development and implementation of innovative technological solutions within SCS, as well as for its clients.

Nathan Hamm will continue to serve SCS as a senior vice president, with a focus on driving strategic initiatives aimed at expanding its service platform and offering creative solutions to clients’ environmental and business challenges. Hamm has more than 26 years of industry experience.

SCS Engineers is involved in a range of waste, recycling demolition sector activities, including brownfields remediation, landfill engineering and landfill gas capture services, transfer station and material recovery facility (MRF) project consulting and municipal solid waste and recycling planning.