JEROD KLABUNDE

Senior Project Manager

MOORE ENGINEERING, INC.

“Jerod has spent his career gaining the trust of his clients. They rely on him to prepare funding packages for infrastructure upgrades to keep the cities’ infrastructure safe and reliable.”

TELL US ABOUT YOURSELF:

Graduated North Dakota State University in 2006. I’ve spent 16.5 years working as an engineer and manager for this employee-owned company of 200 people. I am very proud of my beautiful wife, who is starting as an assistant principal at the Mandan Middle school soon. We love our two sons unconditionally. We spent the first seven years of marriage living in West Fargo and have lived in Bismarck since 2018. Western North Dakota just feels like home. We are very close to our families.

WHAT MOTIVATES YOU?

My home family and my work family motivate me. I do everything I can to lead by example. I believe that if we all work, learn, laugh, and struggle together, then we will all succeed together. I try not to let anyone down, because I know that people are watching my actions. I am incredibly proud to see those around me succeed.

CHALLENGES IN YOUR CAREER PATH:

To my deepest core, I am a problem solver. The biggest challenges I’ve faced have come from having to give people bad news. I always have a sense of guilt and wonder if I could have done more to help them.

WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU OFFER OTHER YOUNG PROFESSIONALS?

At our company, we live by our core values. I’ve chosen the three that mean the most to me:

• Integrity: There is a lot of pressure to be “right” or you may want to “guess the answer” to try please someone. If you’re not sure of something, don’t ever lie. Your integrity is difficult to build, but very easy to destroy.

• Be accountable: If someone is counting on you to do 10 things, write them down, and make sure that every one of them is done well and on time.

• Respect: I can tell you from experience — this is a pretty small world. You get what you give.