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It’s back-to-school season!
Not sure how you’ve spent this glorious summer, but here at MKJ, the kids were hard at work. Summers at the MKJ office are always my favorite time of the year: flooded with interns, high school, college, and post graduate students with the widest array of skills, some engineering and some blank slates eager to learn a thing or two from our seasoned professionals.
The MKJ Challenge: how do you create an organization that is cutting edge, forward-thinking, analytical, customer-focused, and teamwork-centric? You plant seeds! You create a learner-teacher/mentor-protégée model while seeking out bright and hard-working individuals.
MKJ is actually, literally, fantastically growing. No longer do I lose sleep wondering how to find talented project managers, engineers, or technicians who are capable of producing incredible outcomes for complicated end-users and discerning contractors.
My staff and cooperative farmers are not only cultivating the great minds and problem solvers of tomorrow— we’re cultivating the future of New York City Transit communications systems. And we need more great minds to do it!
So…if you’re a student, recent graduate, or young engineer with limited experience searching for a forever work home, bring your grit and know that the snack jars are always full. You will be properly trained, encouraged to do more than you think you’re ready for, and before you know it— you will be teaching the person that steps in after you whilst schooling one of the old timers a new thing or two. But more importantly, you will learn how to be a better problem solver and team player all while patiently mastering the MKJ way.
In truth, this learning/teaching model is part of the MKJ origin story and it’s exactly how we started. Way back when, John Massaro was the intern for the great Joe Petrocelli. A decade later, Neil Macias was the protégé of our operations leader, John Massaro, and our resident tenured professor, Bjorn Matz. Today, this model continues as the MKJ staff seek out bright minds scattered throughout our office, filling them with the incredible knowledge that has been gathered after decades of working in the always complicated, never boring, tremendously specific field of low-voltage systems integration.
MKJ’s knowledge is something that we are uniquely the best at. When you get to join our team, you are entering a society of like-minded folk who agree that the MKJ way is the benchmark for cutting edge design and the fabrication of communication systems. You will be trained, retrained, certified, and recertified. You will learn and relearn. You will teach and reteach and then after all that…you will start from the beginning, passing on all that you have learned.
Thank you to the MKJ interns of 2022! I am ever hopeful that you will not forget your time with us, that some of you (you know who you are) will consider us after graduation, and that all of you will stop in for the snacks and parking lot parties. I promise you— you learned something valuable this summer.
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