HELIX Environmental Planning is thrilled to recognize two of our Construction Group employees, recently promoted for their outstanding contributions. Erik McCracken now serves as the Southern California Construction Group Division Manager, and Stephen Zetterberg was promoted to Group Manager for our Los Angeles County Construction Group team.

Erik McCracken, Southern California Construction Group Division Manager

Erik leads a large team responsible for planning, implementing, and maintaining habitat restoration projects and revegetation projects that span a variety of habitats, project sizes, and sectors across the Southern California region. He oversees the strategy, performance, and operation of the division, with a focus on employee development, business development, strategic planning, and financial performance.

With a career devoted to environmentally complex construction and habitat restoration projects, Erik specializes in developing and implementing site specific and adaptive management approaches that integrate regulatory compliance with construction means and methods. He is experienced in environmental plan development; constructability and design review; preparation and response to agency comments; mitigation compliance coordination; habitat restoration and enhancement; weed management; and sensitive species translocation.

Also serving as HELIX’s Environmental Compliance Practice Lead, Erik routinely coordinates with prime contractors, subcontractors, permitting agencies, biological monitors, and restoration crews to implement permit conditions and environmental compliance measures in active construction environments.

Stephen Zetterberg, Construction Group Manager, Los Angeles County

Initially starting with HELIX years ago as an intern, Stephen has grown in his career through exceptional performance to now oversee a team of restoration specialists focused on the planning, implementation, and maintenance of ecological restoration and mitigation projects across Los Angeles County and neighboring areas throughout Southern California. With our restoration team he works side-by-side with our biologists, arborists, environmental planners, environmental compliance specialists, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) staff throughout the planning, design, and implementation phases of a project to ensure a seamless transition, necessary compliance, and successful development.

Stephen has experience planning, implementing, monitoring, maintaining, and reporting of more than 100 restoration projects across diverse habitats including desert, alkali marsh, vernal and toad pools, wetlands, chaparral, oak woodlands, riparian, riverine, grasslands, meadows, and cut and fill slopes. He is an active member of the California Society for Ecological Restoration (SERCAL).

Please join us in celebrating Erik’s and Stephen’s career accomplishments and recent promotions! We look forward to their continued contributions to our growing, successful team at HELIX.

For More Information
HELIX offers a full range of habitat restoration and revegetation services across California and the western U.S. and has the necessary team in place to take projects through all of the environmental requirements to final sign-off. For more information or to discuss your project, please contact Erik at ErikM@helixepi.com and Stephen at StephenZ@helixepi.com.