Malick & Scherer

What Malick & Scherer does

Malick & Scherer, P.C. (M&S) is a privately held civil engineering firm headquartered in Flemington, New Jersey, founded in 1998 by four transportation engineers. The firm delivers a full-stack portfolio of services — structural engineering, construction management/inspection (CM/CI), highway, traffic, site/civil, water resources, environmental, utilities, and land surveying — to public-sector transportation agencies across the Mid-Atlantic (NJ, NY, PA, DE, MD). Its customer roster spans NJDOT, the NJ Turnpike Authority, NYSDOT, NJ Transit, LIRR, Amtrak, SEPTA, PennDOT, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, organized across four market sectors: surface transportation, transit/rail, aviation, and facilities.

The firm's technical toolkit is built on industry-standard CAD platforms (AutoCAD, MicroStation) supplemented by high-definition 3D laser scanning for surveying applications. Revenue is generated through project-based professional services fees obtained via competitive procurement — RFPs, on-call task orders, design-bid-build, and design-build team participation — rather than recurring subscriptions. M&S holds ESBE, SBE, DBE, and MBE certifications in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York, which qualify it for set-aside contracts and DBE joint-venture participation that non-certified competitors cannot directly access. Revenue is not publicly disclosed, but with 51-100 employees and a 25+ year operating history the firm operates as a mid-sized niche professional services firm with no parent company and no institutional funding.

The business is founder-led: President and CEO Arif Malick, PE, CME, established the firm and continues to own client relations and strategic growth, while Senior VP/COO Rob Zalewski and a bench of discipline directors (structures, highway, traffic, surveying, environmental, utilities) average 25-30+ years of experience. Leadership holds prominent roles in industry associations — ACEC New Jersey and ASHE New York Metro Section — that double as a low-cost marketing and intelligence channel. Growth to date has been entirely organic, built on expanding service disciplines (survey in 2003, structural and CM/CI in 2004, utilities in 2005) and on winning task orders across an expanding roster of agencies, most recently including MTA GEC work beginning in 2023.

Name

Malick & Scherer

Legal name

Malick & Scherer, P.C.

Website

https://malickandscherer.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1998

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Malick & Scherer, P.C. is a privately held, DBE/MBE-certified Mid-Atlantic civil engineering firm founded in 1998 that delivers structural, highway, traffic, site/civil, water resources, environmental, utilities, CM/CI, and surveying services to public-sector transportation agencies in NJ, NY, PA, DE, and MD.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Hampton

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Engineering Design Services: Professional engineering fees for structural, highway, traffic, site/civil, water resources, and environmental design services on infrastructure projects. Revenue is project-based, typically obtained through agency contracts and task orders.
2. Construction Management/Inspection Services: CM/CI services providing construction inspection, observation, RFI responses, and shop drawing review/approval on infrastructure projects. Staff qualifications include NICET, IBC, ACI, and NJSAT certifications.
3. Land Surveying Services: Comprehensive surveying and mapping services including construction control, stakeout services, and deed/map research and analysis.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Malick & Scherer, P.C. is a full-service civil engineering firm that delivers structural, highway, traffic, site/civil, water resources, environmental, and utilities engineering, as well as construction management/inspection and land surveying services to public transportation agencies. The firm serves government clients across the Mid-Atlantic region, providing project support from preliminary concept through final design and construction inspection.

Product overview

Malick & Scherer, P.C. is a full-service Civil Engineering Firm offering a portfolio of interconnected engineering services. The core offerings include Structural Engineering, CM/CI (Construction Management/Construction Inspection), Highway Engineering, Traffic Engineering, Site/Civil Engineering, Water Resources, Environmental Services, Utilities, and Land Surveying. These services are delivered across four market sectors: Surface Transportation, Transit/Rail, Aviation, and Facilities. The firm serves public agencies including NJDOT, NJTA, PennDOT, NYSDOT, MTA, PANYNJ, SEPTA, and Amtrak throughout New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland. The company was founded in 1998 and is certified as ESBE, SBE, DBE, and MBE in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Structural Engineering

Named customers9 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• WSP USA: Global professional services firm with a large U.S. transportation practice serving the same agencies as M&S on highway, bridge, transit, and environmental engineering — overlapping services but at much greater scale and national reach.
• Jacobs Solutions: Major global professional services firm with a significant transportation and infrastructure design practice serving DOTs, transit, and federal clients — overlapping service offerings but at materially greater scale than M&S.
• HDR Inc. National engineering consultancy with strong transportation, water resources, and environmental practices serving DOTs, transit agencies, and federal clients — comparable in core services but far larger and more diversified geographically.
• Stantec: Global engineering, architecture, and environmental services firm with a meaningful U.S. transportation and infrastructure practice serving similar public-sector clients — broader portfolio but overlapping core civil engineering capabilities.
• AECOM: One of the largest global engineering and infrastructure firms with extensive transportation, environmental, and construction management practices — competes with M&S for the same large agency contracts at a vastly different scale.

Direct peers

• Kimley-Horn: Privately held national engineering consulting firm with strong transportation, traffic, and site/civil practices serving public agencies and private developers — comparable in being privately held, multidisciplinary, and traffic/highway-focused.
• Greenman-Pedersen Inc. (GPI): Mid-Atlantic and Northeast civil engineering firm providing transportation design, CM/CI, surveying, and environmental services to state DOTs and transit agencies — directly comparable in size, geography, and service mix to M&S.
• Pennoni: Mid-Atlantic-headquartered engineering firm of similar size providing transportation, structural, environmental, and surveying services to state DOTs, municipalities, and private clients — closely comparable in geography, size, and service mix.
• Michael Baker International: National transportation engineering firm with deep Mid-Atlantic presence serving NJDOT, PennDOT, NYSDOT, and major authorities on highway, bridge, and transit design — closely comparable in service offerings and government client base.
• Gannett Fleming: Mid-Atlantic-headquartered transportation engineering firm of similar size serving DOTs, turnpike authorities, and transit agencies with highway, structural, traffic, and CM/CI services — directly comparable in client base, service mix, and project delivery models.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/MalickandScherer

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles11 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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Investments

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