North Wind Group, based in Idaho Falls, will add about 100 jobs in the coming year. But "very few" of them will be in Idaho Falls, said spokeswoman Ann Riedesel.
"We anticipate some additional hiring in north Idaho," she said. The Alaska office is growing "fairly significantly."
The environmental services company gets almost all its business from the government. It builds, demolishes, engineers and does hazardous cleanup projects in Washington, Idaho, Colorado, Alaska and other sites around the country.
About 100 employees work in the Idaho Falls headquarters, Riedesel said. Thirty to 40 work in northern Idaho. The rest of the company's 350 workers are scattered around the country.
North Wind Group announced Tuesday that it expects big revenue growth in 2012. It recently won contracts with the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Department of Energy.
One of its largest projects is in Alaska, building a new Air Force camp with housing, bathrooms, kitchens and mess halls.
Sylvia Medina, president, expects revenues of $130 million next year "with excellent profit."
Medina started the company in 1997 and sold it to Cook Inlet Region Inc., an Alaska Native corporation, in 2009.
The company has done Idaho National Laboratory projects in the past and could grow in Idaho Falls if hired for future INL projects, Riedesel said.
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