Steven Faciane: from intern to project manager
Steven Faciane has been with the IEA family of companies since he was a college student. An LSU alumnus, Faciane majored in Construction Management. While using the LSU career portal his junior year, IEA popped up – we were hiring interns for the summer.
Faciane took a chance and sent in his resume. He was hired as a project engineer intern and started packing his bags to hit the road for the summer. Assigned to a remote location in the Midwest, he was skeptical.
“Driving out to Kansas, I still remember asking myself, ‘Why am I in Kansas?’ I actually almost turned around…. It turned out to be one of the best summers I’ve had,” said Faciane.
It’s been six years since Faciane's summer in Kansas. Now, he’s a project manager.
His career development is impressive in such a short amount of time. Since his official hiring in 2017, Faciane’s put in copious amounts of work, traveling all over the United States building wind farms.
How’d he rise so quickly at IEA? According to Faciane, “If you put forth the effort here, it does not go unnoticed.”
Staring as a field engineer, he adopted some lead project engineer responsibilities, dealing with the financial side of the job, his responsibility being recognized quickly. After, Faciane was slingshot into his second project as a lead project engineer. Following two and a half years, he moved up again to assistant project manager in Iowa. His first project manager supervisor Jeremy Landgrebe was moved up, opting for a recommendation and shot for Faciane to be a project manager.
“I’m proud of how quickly I was able to accomplish it, it’s something I wanted to do because of the hard work I’ve put forward,” said Faciane. “I’m very thankful for it, I think it's going to help me in my career in the long run. It has fast-tracked where I want to be.”
At IEA, internships can turn into a long-standing, successful career - it happens every year. Faciane and many others come back to IEA after graduation for the same reasons: the people, the culture and the opportunities.
“Through all the different managers I’ve had, my bosses, my boss' bosses- everyone is friendly, willing to talk to you, willing to drop what they’re doing,” said Faciane. “Now having project engineers, it’s something I tell them; I’m never too busy to help you learn. That's what I like the most out here, helping people grow.”
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