Marcus Hopkins

Marcus began work at W&W|AFCO Steel as an Engineering Intern while completing his Civil Engineering degree from the University of Arkansas. He began working full time as an Assistant Project Manager and oversaw the steel erector, scheduling, and served as the direct point of contact for W&W|AFCO’s customers on a variety of job sites. Marcus spent time in Indiana and Alabama before returning to Arkansas to help implement material receiving, storage, and tracking programs and procedures at the company’s primary facility in Little Rock that would later be implemented in multiple locations across the US. After this assignment completed, he returned to project management where he has managed work on small projects up to mega projects with overall construction budgets over $20B. His projects include chemical processing facilities, hospitals, hangers, stadiums, semiconductor plants, and other types of building structures.

In 2015, he returned to field operations to manage W&W|AFCO’s onsite activities for a high-rise cancer treatment facility in New York, NY. This role was extended in 2018 assist engineers with project schedule and budget through efficient steel design and later managed the detailing, fabrication, shipping, and construction of the project onsite without pause during the COVID pandemic. Marcus became the Vice President of Contracts in 2022 and currently manages projects in California, Arizona, and Israel.

Marcus is a past President of the Civil Engineering Alumni Board, Officer of the Student Chapter of ASCE, and Team Leader for the Mid-Continent Conference Steel Bridge & Concrete Canoe Competition. The latter of which he volunteered as a judge for multiple years. Marcus, his wife, Andrea and daughter Hattie live in North Little Rock, AR.