Jamey Bertram

Senior Vice President
Transmission & Distribution General Manager
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Jamey Bertram leads over 3,500 engineering, construction and technical professionals through vulnerability and experience.

Jamey serves as general manager of the Transmission & Distribution Group. He joined Burns & McDonnell in 2001 as a civil engineer. He led the international business and operations group before becoming its general manager. With 22 years of experience, he has taken on progressively more complex engineering and leadership assignments for many of the largest utilities in North America. He serves as the firm’s officer-in-charge for Pacific, Gas & Electric. He resides in Kansas City, Missouri, with his wife, Lauren, and two children, Amelia and Cal. 

In the community:

I strongly believe in giving back to the community and charitable organizations, whether that’s through Burns & McDonnell or charities close to my heart, including:

  • Operation Breakthrough, chair
  • United Way
  • Charity of Choice, annual campaign and event to raise money with the T&D team
What inspired you to pursue your career?

I can actually point to one single instance when I was a senior in high school. We were allowed to choose a few class electives, and that year I chose biology over physics — which I was on the fence about. It took one class to know that it wasn’t for me, but fortunately, my teacher let me switch to the physics class. Taking that class from an aerospace engineer made me realize that I wanted to become an engineer myself.

What's the coolest part of your job?

As general manager, I get to meet and engage with our people, clients and partners. I enjoy every aspect of interacting with people, and I will continue to find ways to talk with people — especially our employee-owners here at Burns & McDonnell — because it is the coolest and best part of what I do. 

How do you and your team make the world a better place?

We do so much to make the world a better place every day. Through the work we do in Transmission & Distribution with our clients, we help improve the reliability of power and electricity in communities around the globe. By building electric and gas infrastructure, supporting renewable generation and energy infrastructure, and connecting systems, cities and communities, we are helping to improve the communities and the experiences that people have using the electricity and power that our clients bring to them.