As of January 10^th, Joseph Lehman, Jr. celebrated his 30^th Anniversary with P. Joseph Lehman, Inc., Consulting Engineers. Joe has been with P. Joseph Lehman, Inc. where he has served as President for the past 18 years.  He is a registered Professional Engineer in Pennsylvania and eight surrounding states and is also a Certified Bridge Safety Inspector.

P. Joseph Lehman, Inc. Consulting Engineers was established in 1969 by Joe’s father, P. Joseph Lehman. The organization is celebrating it’s and 54th Anniversary this year. The firm was inducted into the Blair Chamber Hall of Fame in October of 2018 and received the Blair Chamber Community Service award in 2017. Lehman’s father, who had worked as a liaison engineer for PennDOT before starting the company out of the basement of his home, focused on small companies. In 2005, P. Joseph Lehman Sr. turned over the reins of the business to his son and a group of partners, which today include Bob Bryant, Transportation Services Director; Marty Malone, Client Services Director; Husam Obeid, Bridge Design Director; Chuck Meyers, Project Manager/Lead Highway Engineer; Aaron Craig, Bridge Inspection/Field Services Director; and Scott Klingenberg, Environmental Services Director.

While sadly Mr. Lehman passed away in March of 2020, he had great pride in his son and had the following to say during an interview:   “My son, Joe, is doing a great job running the firm. He has a great rapport with both employees and clients, and has assembled an outstanding team of dedicated employees and partners,” P. Joseph Lehman Sr. said. “Over the past 40 years, Joe has kept the firm up-to-date with the latest innovations as they relate to civil engineering. He is doing a better job of running the firm than I did. I am very proud of their success.” (Joe worked at the firm as a teen and helped to automate and computerize systems-time not counted in his “official” anniversary.) 

Joe is proud of the firm and its many projects. Over the years, Lehman Engineers expanded to offer transportation engineering, environmental consulting, survey, structural design, and utility related work. Their annual fundraiser “Lehman Engineers Trail Ride and Walk to Benefit Dreams Go On” at Canoe Creek has been sponsored by his firm since it’s inception. The event has now raised over $340,330.88 for local therapeutic horseback riding.

Joe was born in Spangler, Pennsylvania in 1965, then raised in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania since age four. He attended Penn-Mont pre-school, St. Michael’s and St. Mary’s parochial elementary schools in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. He graduated Valedictorian from Kiski Preparatory School in Saltsburg, Pennsylvania.

He received his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering with a Minor in Management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York in 1987, then his MBA from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts in 1989.

Joe married Betsy Marie (Hoover) Lehman in 2006. They are blessed with two children, Lauren Lehman (15) and Joey Lehman (14). Both children attend Bishop Guilfoyle Catholic High Schools and all are members of St. Michael the Archangel Church in Hollidaysburg. 

Joe is active in the community and a promoter of servant leadership at the firm. Joe is a graduate of the Leadership Blair County program and is currently a member of the Blair Chamber Public Policy Committee and a previous member of the Leadership Blair County program committee. He is a member of the Independent Catholic Foundation Board and St. Michael’s Finance Committee. Joe was a member of both the High Hopes and the Dreams Go On Boards and helped steer them through their transition to a nonprofit and merger. He also regularly supports his parish, the Bishop Guilfoyle Marauder Club, EITC for Holy Trinity Catholic School and the Annual Catholic Appeal, Family Services, UPMC Altoona Hospital Foundation among numerous other local charities. 

Joe is involved with all of his kids’ extracurricular and sporting events. Joe enjoys photography, genealogy, and gardening in his free time.

P. JOSEPH LEHMAN, Inc., Consulting Engineers is very pleased to announce that Environmental Scientist Chantal Sisko is now a certified Asbestos Inspector in Pennsylvania. Sisko recently completed the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry’s specialized training for the handling of asbestos-containing materials. As a licensed expert, she’ll be responsible for evaluating and assessing the potential presence, quantity, and location of hazardous asbestos-containing materials in a building or on a construction site.

P. JOSEPH LEHMAN, Inc., Consulting Engineers is made up of a growing team of highly skilled professionals and experienced specialists in transportation design, structural engineering, site development, surveying, utility engineering, environmental science, environmental characterization and remediation, geology, and construction services. Lehman Engineers currently maintains offices in Hollidaysburg and Bedford, PA.

P. Joseph Lehman, Inc. Consulting Engineers was one of the many exhibitors at the Association of Pennsylvania Constructors’ (APC) Annual Fall Seminar in Hershey from November 16^th – 18^th.   APC is a trade association that unites hundreds of members including prime and subcontractors, consulting engineers, material suppliers, manufacturers, and others with an interest in Pennsylvania’s road and bridge construction industry.  The event also hosted representatives from PennDOT and the Pennsylvania Turnpike. 

Attending on behalf of Lehman Engineers was (L to R): Marty Malone, Director of Client Services; Garrett Leopold, Utility Coordinator; Jim Frank, Client Services Representative; Aaron Craig, P.E., Bridge Team Project Engineer; Greg Sleasman, Construction Inspection Director; and Husam Obeid, P.E., Bridge Design Director.

Jim Frank and Marty Malone, of Lehman’s Client Services Department, are attending, exhibiting and presenting at the annual Roadway Management Conference being held in Wheeling, West Virginia.  Jim and Marty will be participating all week.  The conference attracts transportation officials at the state and local level from five states.

Lehman Engineers recently participated as an exhibitor at the Blair County Association of Township Officials Annual Convention. The event – which brings together supervisors and other officials from the County’s 15 townships – was held at the Blair County Convention Center on September 26th. Client Services Director, Marty Malone, was among our staff to attend the Convention.

If you live in or have friends or family who live in any of the following counties – Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Fulton, Huntingdon, or Somerset, please share the attachment and ask them to take the survey. This is part of a project we are working on as a sub for the Foresite Group in Alabama. If you have any questions please contact Marty Malone, Jim Frank or Ken Szala, at our office. Thank You!

PRESS RELEASE:

Hollidaysburg, PA – P. Joseph Lehman, Inc., Consulting Engineers is very pleased to announce that Mr. Doug Schaefer has joined the firm as a survey technician.  

Schaefer, of Altoona, brings more than 20 years of experience performing survey duties for a wide range of projects.  He is a graduate of Hollidaysburg Area Senior High School. 

Joseph Lehman, Inc., Consulting Engineers is made up of a growing team of highly skilled professionals and experienced specialists in transportation design, structural engineering, site development, surveying, environmental science, environmental characterization and remediation, geology, and construction services. Lehman Engineers currently maintains offices in Hollidaysburg and Bedford, PA.