Our Mission
Northern Geotechnical Engineering, Inc. Terra Firma Testing
Mission Statement
Provide Alaskans, and the rest of the world, with an exceptional geoprofessional service and value by combining sound scientific principles and technical proficiency, with a unique fusion of common sense, real-world experience, and practical design. Promote a work place that emphasizes a professional work ethic, encourages employee individuality within a team concept, and which stimulates creativity, loyalty, professional growth, and personal satisfaction.
Core Values
We advocate professionalism in all of its forms and embrace the following fundamental core values. We make every effort to instill and integrate these core values in our employees as well as into our daily operations and business planning.
Safety
Our employees are the most valuable assets. Therefore, we strive to maintain a safe work environment through a combination of education, training, protocol, and positive reinforcement. We are also dedicated to the safety of the people that we serve, and we consider safety at every stage of the design process and during the daily performance of our service.
Integrity
We pride ourselves on the integrity of our employees, who understand the role that professional ethics and honesty play in the responsible and accountable performance of our services.
Respect
We maintain a high level of respect for our profession and the people that our service supports. This includes a reverence for the laws, codes, and specifications which govern and shape the direction of our service as well as an appreciation for the individuals and communities that our service affects.
Ingenuity
We encourage our employees to be innovative and to try think “outside of the box” as often as possible, as this is frequently where the most practical and cost effective designs stem from. Resourcefulness and inventiveness are often keys to success when operating in a unique, challenging and unconventional setting such as Alaska.
Reliability
Our existence as a company, and our continued success, are based heavily on our dependability and consistency, which have established our credibility with existing clients and within our industry, community, and profession.
