Employee Spotlight: RJ Roos

When Barnard Construction was selected as the general contractor for the Chimney Hollow Reservoir Project in August 2019, Chimney Hollow Reservoir Project Operations Manager RJ Roos was one of the first assigned to the project. He had recently finished building a new dam in Labrador, Canada, and returned to Bozeman, Mont. waiting for the next project. A couple of years later, the Chimney Hollow project began,he and his family moved to Berthoud, which would be their new home for the next four years.  

Throughout his 20-year career with Barnard, Roos has worked his way from a project engineer to a field superintendent to general superintendent and now operations manager. The 13 projects that Roos has worked on have taken him and his family all over the United States and Canada.  

In what could be called “full circle,” Roos started his career with Barnard in 2003 as a project engineer working on the Pleasant Valley Pipeline, a joint effort between Northern Water, Fort Collins, Greeley and the Soldier Canyon water districts to increase the flexibility and reliability of water deliveries. Twenty years later, he is back in Northern Colorado working on another Northern Water project – this time, a much bigger project that comes with a lot more responsibility.