Member Awardee

Kenneth E. Stinson was born in San Francisco, California on September 22, 1942. He earned a Bachelor of Civil Engineering Degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1964. From 1966 to 1969, he served as an officer in the U.S. Navy Civil Engineering Corps, including two and one half tours of service in Vietnam as a Company Commander in the MCB5 Seabee Battalion. He then attended Stanford University where he received an M.S. Degree in Civil Engineering.

After working for Kiewit as an engineer on the BART system in San Francisco while attending Stanford, he joined Kiewit on a full-time basis in 1970, and was assigned as superintendent on the 63rd Street Tube and Tunnel project in New York City. Upon the completion of that project, he moved to the Kiewit home office in Omaha and worked as an engineer/estimator.

In 1975, he was assigned to the Northwest District, with responsibility for the precast yard operation for the Pasco-Kennewick Bridge and then as Project Superintendent on a bridge over the Columbia River. From 1980 to 1982, he served as Manager of Engineering and Planning for the Ft. McHenry Tunnel, a sunken tube project, under Baltimore Harbor.

From 1982 to 1993, he assumed a number of executive assignments: first as Vice President of Marketing, then as President of Kiewit Eastern Co., and then as President of Kiewit Mining Group, which included responsibility for all underground construction operations.

In 1992, he was named President of Kiewit Construction Group, Inc., and then in 1993, Chairman and CEO of that group. In 1998, he assumed his current position of Chairman and CEO of Peter Kiewit Sons’, Inc., a company with 2003 revenues of $3.6 billion.

He has been the recipient of many awards, including the Notre Dame College of Engineering Honor Award, The Golden Beaver Management Award and the ASCE OPAL Award. He has found time during his busy career to take on a number of civic responsibilities, including serving as a Director of Creighton University; serving as Chairman of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce; and serving on the Notre Dame Engineering Advisory Council.

He and his wife, Ann, live in Omaha. He has three sons and one daughter and Ann has a one and a daughter, as well as four grandchildren.