Fuss & O’Neill Hires New Project Engineer

Fuss & O’Neill has hired Lindsay Silcox as a Project Engineer for its Wastewater Department. She earns her degree in Civil Engineering from Central Connecticut State University this May when she will join her Fuss & O’Neill team full time. This marks a career change for Ms. Silcox, who earned a degree in Fine Arts in 2009 concentrating in sculpture and ceramics, with a minor in Art History and Russian Language. After a brief stint working as a farm hand in Virginia, Lindsay earned a position as the first Sustainability Coordinator for a major food service provider. There she developed educational programming and events dedicated to raising awareness about sustainability and healthy living, which turned into a passion for creative problem solving and protecting the environment.

It is this passion that led her to the Wastewater Department at Fuss & O’Neill. Here she will contribute to the Department’s ongoing mission of safe and clean water. Senior Vice President and Department Manager Virgil Lloyd, PE knows that new perspectives are important to progress. “Lindsay has traveled a truly unique path leading to this position. The twists and turns in her journey give her a fresh and different perspective, and will bring creative and innovative problem-solving approaches to help us better serve our clients. I look forward to her contributions.”

Fuss & O’Neill provides planning, design, and construction services for wastewater solutions ranging from decentralized management to conventional collection and treatment systems for municipal and industrial facilities. They design treatment plant upgrades to provide better energy efficiency, nutrient removal, and expand capacity that are customized to their clients’ specific monitoring and control requirements. They have been instrumental in securing funding for their clients and establishing regulations to better manage wastewater infrastructure.