Engineered Controls provides customers with products and services to create efficient, safe and comfortable building environments. As a leading Honeywell building control technologies contractor, Engineered Controls offers control solutions for commercial HVAC and security systems – including video surveillance and access control, parking systems, lighting control systems, and building indoor air quality. Jeremy Reiter is a New Construction Sales Engineer at Engineered Controls
How did you get started in the business? – I grew up working on center pivots, which have a lot of mechanical controls on them. When I first moved to Lincoln, I applied at Engineered Controls and have been here for fifteen years.
What is the biggest challenge you’ve faced professionally? – Balancing my personal and professional life. Keeping pace with rapidly evolving building controls industry and “trying” to keep up with two toddlers can be challenging.
What has been your most important achievement professionally? – Working my way up through Engineered Controls. Fifteen years ago I started as an installer, transitioned into project management, and I am now a new construction sales engineer. Each had its own set of challenges, but they all led me to where I’m at today.
Tell us a little about your family. – I have a beautiful wife, a very imaginative little four year old girl, and a strong willed, compassionate two year old girl. We also have two dogs, a cat, and a fish!
What do you see as one of the biggest turning points in your life? – The birth of my two beautiful little girls! Though they test my patience sometimes, they’ve changed my life for the better.
What is your favorite thing to do on a day off? – Anything that involves my family, going to the zoo or park and bicycle rides are atop the list. Being outside working around the house or hunting with friends and family.
What is the most unique or interesting thing about you that most people probably don’t know? – Most people don’t know that I have six titanium plates and eight screws in my face from a car accident I was involved in sixteen years ago. One of those life learning moments!
What are you the most proud of? – The career that I have and family I’ve built. They are cornerstones of my life and I am very blessed to have them both.
What is the best piece of advice you’ve ever received? – Work hard before you play hard and remember that opportunities are sometimes made and not always handed out.
If you could choose only one descriptive word to be remembered as, what would it be? – Autonomous.
If you could have a super power, what would it be? – Telepathy.
Which talent would you most like to have? – To be more artistic, I’m a straight lines kind of person now. I think this would give some different perspective on some things.
If you could choose any other profession to be successful in, what would it be? – A hunting outfitter. I love being outdoors and hunting. What better profession could you ask for to incorporate both?
What is your favorite local restaurant? – Mazatlan Mexican Restaurant
If you could have dinner with one famous person from the past or present, who would it be? – Alexander the Great. Looked at by some to be the greatest military mind in history, having dinner with this King would, at the very least, be enlightening.
If our readers would like to contact you, how should they do so? – By phone at (402) 434-2110, via email at jreiter@engineeredcontrols.com, or visit www.engineeredcontrols.com.