About Tom Gredell, PE

Thomas Gredell of Jefferson City, Missouri, founder and president of GREDELL Engineering Resources Inc., earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering from Missouri S&T in 1978 and 1980, respectively. He began his career at the Missouri Department of Natural Resources as a staff solid waste permit engineer and left as chief of the solid waste engineering section, then went to work for Environmental Concepts Inc. (ECI) advancing to vice president before Barr Engineering bought ECI in 1998. In 2001, he formed Gredell Engineering, which continues today. In 2014, Gredell joined his two brothers as co-owner and vice president of Vista Manufacturing Co., a precision manufacturing, machining and electronics assembly company in Kansas City, Kansas. He has held positions of committee chair, officer and board member in the Jefferson City Chapter of Missouri Society of Professional Engineers, the Missouri Waste Control Coalition, and American Council of Engineering Companies-Missouri. He is also active in the Jefferson City Chamber of Commerce, the East Side Business Association and Missouri Conservation Federation. MSPE’s 1984 Young Engineer of the Year, he supports registration and licensure and follows the activities of the Missouri Legislature as a member of MSPE and ACEC-MO. At S&T, Gredell was an officer in Kappa Sigma fraternity and he has served on its alumni house corporation since the early 2000s. Gredell Engineering designed the civil site plan for the 2011 house renovation. He was a member of Phi Eta Sigma, Tau Beta Pi and Theta Tau Omega and was named freshman of the year. He played basketball his freshman year when the 1975-76 team won the MIAA conference championship and earned a berth to the NCAA Division II Tournament. The team was inducted into the Miner Athletics Hall of Fame in 1999.