Mitchell Murchison, PE, MBA

President and CEO

What I Do:

As president and CEO, I lead CRANSTON by embodying and promoting our core values of collaboration and relationships, problem solving, drive for excellence, and entrepreneurial spirit. My role involves steering the company toward innovative solutions, fostering a collaborative environment, and ensuring that our diverse technical expertise is leveraged to benefit the communities we serve. By upholding and advancing CRANSTON’s legacy, I aim to create new career opportunities for our team members while preserving our commitment to enhancing communities.

I work closely with our parent company, The HFW Companies, to build synergies and cultivate a collaborative environment with our network of Partner Firms. This collaboration not only enhances our capabilities and capacity, but also empowers the communities we serve, enabling them to thrive and prosper.

My Professional Experience:

I started with CRANSTON in 2006 as a project engineer in the Private Development design group. I had the privilege to work on many development projects, ranging from subdivisions in the Augusta, Ga., area to developing a lakefront community at Lake Keowee in South Carolina.

In 2009, CRANSTON took on a series of levee compliance projects in Georgia, Tennessee, Oklahoma, and North Carolina, and I served on the levee team. During this period, I officially moved into CRANSTON’s Municipal department and became a project manager, leading multi-disciplined design teams on a variety of projects.

My design experience has ranged from stormwater, hydrology & hydraulics, levees and dams, local road improvements, DOT roadway, streetscapes, site developments, recreational park facilities and trails, railroads, golf courses, pumping stations, waterworks, and wastewater systems. I was promoted to Municipal Design Group manager in 2019 before being named the director of Civil Engineering and Vice President a few years later. I became president and CEO in January 2025 and am excited to drive momentum and foster the collaborative culture for CRANSTON.

My Education:

  • Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, specializing in Environmental Engineering, Mercer University
  • Master of Business Administration degree, University of South Carolina

Why “empowering communities to thrive” is so important to me:

Empowering communities to thrive is so important to me because we are investing in and improving the infrastructure and communal resources not only for communities today, but also for future generations. In everything we do, we strive to achieve transformative growth.

I live, work, and play in one of these communities. My work gives me a great sense of pride and accomplishment when, for instance, I’m able to attend a Broadway show at a regional Performing Arts Center for which CRANSTON provided civil and structural engineering design or to take my kids on a nature hike on an extensive community network of paved trails I designed. Such CRANSTON projects continue to help empower these communities to thrive.

Email address: mmurchison@cranstonengineering.com