Morenson, A.O. Smith Corp., Walbec Group, Graef and Hunzinger Construction Co. are among the winners of the Milwaukee Business Journal's 2022 Best Places to Work awards.

Other high-profile firms making the highly sought after list this year are HNTB Corp., St. Augustine Preparatory Academy, C.G. Schmidt, Zimmerman Architectural Studios Inc. and Catalyst Construction. We are announcing 30 of the 60 overall winners today. See below for all the winners in the medium, large and extra-large categories.

Look for the winners in the micro and small categories to be posted on our website at 10 a.m. Tuesday. You can view the entire list of winners in our July 1 issue.

We are listing the winners in alphabetical order. We will announce the rankings in each category and the overall winners, along with the Q&As with each finalist, on our website during the week of Aug. 15 and in our Aug. 19 print issue. All of our winners will be honored at the Best Places to Work awards lunch, which will be held Aug. 18 at the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena in downtown Milwaukee.

This year’s program drew about 125 nominations from companies on the “micro” end with fewer than 25 employees up to those in the “extra-large” category with more than 200 workers. Regardless of size, all participating companies needed to have a large percentage of employees complete an online survey prepared and managed by our program partner, Quantum Workplace.

Employee scores were measured on how favorably they responded to questions in core areas including personal engagement, communication and resources, teamwork, retention, alignment with goals, trust with co-workers and senior leaders, manager effectiveness, job satisfaction, etc. We then selected our winners based on highest scores in each size category.

Here are winners in our first group:

Extra-Large Category (200 or more employees)

• C.G.Schmidt Inc.

• Kapur

• Steele Solutions

• von Briesen & Roper sc

• Walbec Group

Large Category (100 - 199 employees)

• A. O. Smith Corp.

• Boldt

• Graef

• GS Global Resources

• HNTB Corp.

• IEWC Corp.

• Mortenson

• QPS Employment Group

• St Augustine Preparatory Academy

• VJS Construction Services

Medium Category (50 to 99 employees)

• AG Architecture

• Best Version Media

• Catalyst Construction

• DeWitt LLP

• Evans Transportation

• Girl Scouts of Wisconsin Southeast

• Hunzinger Construction Co.

• Hupy and Abraham SC

• IndependenceFirst

• Kelmann Restoration

• Kforce

• La Macchia Group

• MLG Capital

• Vizance

• Zimmerman Architectural Studios Inc.