Welcome to the Dewberry Disaster Cadre website where we strive to create a sense of community for our part-time and intermittent work force involved with Dewberry’s various disaster preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation contracts.

Dewberry’s consultants provide expert disaster preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation consulting services to federal, state, local, and private clients nationwide. Since the early 1980’s, Dewberry has provided technical assistance to FEMA’s Public Assistance Program, responding to more than 350 disasters in 49 states and all U.S. Territories. Similar expertise has been provided to FEMA’s Housing Inspection, Individual Assistance, and Mitigation Programs.

Dewberry provides FEMA with a range of technical, financial, and management services including assessment of infrastructure damage, engineering evaluations, cost estimating, environmental and historic compliance support, development of mitigation solutions, community recovery planning and project monitoring/close out. Additional services include catastrophic event planning, evacuation studies, and community shelter analysis and development.

Dewberry is looking to supplement its part- time cadre with professionals experienced in the following disciplines: civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, water resource, and geotechnical engineering, as well as architecture, building envelope and coding, historic architecture, cultural resources, construction management, cost estimating, planning, and environmental/historic compliance.

Hiring process:

1. Submit a resume/application online.
2. Once resumes/applications are reviewed, interviews will be conducted and references checked.
3. Candidates who match our needs are offered conditional employment and added to the Dewberry disaster cadre at an inactive status.
4. Depending upon contract needs, candidates are selected for assignment, switched to an active status, and mobilized on assignment.
5. Once staff completes their assignment, they are demobilize and switched back to inactive status until the next assignment.

Dewberry is a leading professional services firm with a proven history of providing architecture, engineering, and management and consulting services to a wide variety of public- and private-sector clients. Recognized for combining unsurpassed commitment to client service with deep subject matter expertise, Dewberry is dedicated to solving clients’ most complex challenges and transforming their communities.

Established in 1956, Dewberry is headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, with more than 40 locations and 1,800+ professionals nationwide. Today, Dewberry is an Engineering News-Record "Top 50" design firm and ranks in the top 25 in several of ENR’s market categories. According to the Washington Business Journal, Dewberry ranks as one of the top engineering firms based in the Washington, D.C. area. To learn more, visit www.dewberry.com.

For additional information about Dewberry’s consulting services or disaster cadre, please do not hesitate to contact us at Disaster-Info.