Michael Stenbeck recognized as a 2025 Rising Young Professional
Kraus-Anderson is proud to announce that Project Manager Michael Stenbeck has been named one of Finance and Commerce’s 2025 Rising Young Professionals. An intern at KA originally, Stenbeck reflects on his career at Kraus-Anderson and how it feels to be recognized with this award.
Stenbeck graduated from Iowa State in 2017. After his college internship with KA, he started a full-time position upon graduation. Stenbeck started his career as a project engineer in the K-12 market sector working with the Edina school district.
“From there I was able to gain additional experience taking on more of a lead role working on various projects in the Mounds View school district,” Stenbeck shared. “Once the projects in that bond referendum were completed, I moved on to the Owatonna school district, overseeing a 320,000 SF new high school among other projects in the district. Today I am working in the Stillwater school district on a 150,000 SF new elementary school, along with continued work in the Mounds View school district and Columbia Heights school district completing geothermal mechanical conversion projects.”
Stenbeck has extensive experience managing and overseeing projects, adhering to the overall budget and schedule while coordinating various trades on site. He excels in communicating with project owners and design teams, keeping them informed on project progression and jobsite status, and ensuring the project is delivered to expectation.
“As I have progressed at KA, I have also started working with newer employees to help train them in the steps and processes to become successful project managers themselves,” he added.
Stenbeck has worked on several innovative projects, giving him a wide-ranging scope of experience in his early career. These included construction of CTE spaces and dedicated classrooms for culinary arts, nursing, welding, auto mechanics, digital design and more.
“I have also been involved in Darcy geothermal projects using cutting edge deep well geothermal technology that drills wells down into the aquifer and leverages the aquifer water temperatures to provide heating and cooling to buildings,” Stenbeck elaborated. “I am currently working on my 3rd and 4th projects using this new technology.”
His proudest moment thus far has been delivering the new Owatonna High School.
“There were several thousand people at the ribbon cutting and not only did you get to see the joy in students faces at the new building they were going to be able to call theirs, but the general excitement from all the residents in the community. To know what we did was bettering the community as a whole was very gratifying.”
Stenbeck’s coworkers describe him as bringing a calm, levelheaded approach to work, and as being hardworking, focused, and driven to deliver successful projects for everyone involved. He is always willing to help and enjoys being able to mentor others.
Outside of work, Stenbeck loves getting outdoors and can often be found on the golf course.
In response to receiving this award, he said, “For me, it is fulfilling knowing that it is a nominated award. The fact that someone recognized the work I have done and went out of their way to nominate me for it is very gratifying.”
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