9 episodes

Conversations with team members building their careers at Mortenson

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Conversations with team members building their careers at Mortenson

    Why planning and pre-task planning are pivotal to our zero injury culture - with Kendra Lyons

    Why planning and pre-task planning are pivotal to our zero injury culture - with Kendra Lyons

    Kendra Lyons is a safety manager on our federal team where she's instilling our zero injury culture with our craft workforce and our trade partners.

    She sat down with Justin Swierk and Ann Ayres from our talent team to talk about how planning and pre-task planning on our job sites is instrumental to our success. Kendra talks about how Mort's vision for zero injuries on our projects was an inspiration to her and why building rapport with our craft workforce is so important to her. The importance of understanding how work is being installed has been critical for her throughout her journey at Mortenson and helps her identify potential solutions to a challenge before they start work.

    Interested in a safety role here? Explore safety roles at Mortenson.
    Not a safety professional? We're hiring across the org.

    Connect with Kendra, Justin, or Ann. 

    • 15 min
    How we build our safety culture and drive engagement - with Cammy Gidio

    How we build our safety culture and drive engagement - with Cammy Gidio

    Cammy Gidio is a safety manager on our solar team where she continues to build our safety culture and focus our team members on why we build safely.

    She sat down with Bobbi Relopez and Justin Swierk from our talent team to talk about how her experience working on our solar team and how she engages on-site. She dives into the practices and programs we use, how we approach our team members, and ultimately why safety permeates throughout the organization from the field to the C-suite. The Mortenson culture allows us to approach work differently. We're all responsible for the safety of each other.

    Interested in a safety role here? Explore safety roles at Mortenson.
    Not a safety professional? We're hiring across the org.

    Connect with Cammy, Bobbi, or Justin. 

    • 18 min
    The engineering path to design phase management - with Carl Moeller

    The engineering path to design phase management - with Carl Moeller

    Carl sat down with Nick and Justin from our talent team to talk about his engineering path to electrical design phase management. We talk about Mortenson's heavy focus on the preconstruction side of projects and why that design phase management approach continues to drive our success on the energy storage side of the business.

    Carl is hiring engineers for design phase focused roles. Explore the openings here.
    Not interested in those types of roles? See all of our openings here. 

    • 14 min
    An overview of the project manager roles on our data center builds – with Kari Labucki

    An overview of the project manager roles on our data center builds – with Kari Labucki

    Kari Labucki is a senior MEP project manager for our data center group working on our hyperscale builds for Facebook in Eagle Mountain, UT. She oversees the larger team of MEP project managers and transitioned to the data center group after working on the Milwaukee Buc’s arena. 

    Kari sat down with our lead recruiter for the data center group, Bill Peterman, to talk about what a PM does on our hyperscale projects. We talk about the career progression of PMs and her own career growth. As our data center work continues to skyrocket, Kari sheds light on why someone should join her group and advance their career with Mortenson. 

    Want to be a PM on the data center team? Explore the openings.
    Want to work with friendly people like us? We’re hiring. 

    • 9 min
    Building hyperscale data centers and what it means for career growth - with Joe Proulx

    Building hyperscale data centers and what it means for career growth - with Joe Proulx

    Joe Proulx is the director of operations for our data center group. He leads from Eagle Mountain (one of our hyperscale builds) and oversees all operational and construction activities across the group. Demand from our customers is increasing and career growth is happening.
    Joe sat down with Bill Peterman and Justin Swierk from our talent team to talk about our data center group and where they're headed. We get into what's different about a hyperscale build, the size of the teams, and the amount of opportunity for growth. As we build out these data center campuses for Facebook and other customers, Joe explains why our team members see consistent advancement while riding the wave.
    Want to work on the data center team? Joe's group is hiring.
    Want to work with friendly people like us? We're hiring.

    • 13 min
    Taking the secret out of our secret sauce - with Danielle Paulson

    Taking the secret out of our secret sauce - with Danielle Paulson

    Danielle Paulson is the Manager of LeadBLU and Leadership Development here at Mortenson. Her team leads our company-wide initiative to take the secret out of our secret sauce, LeadBLU. LeadBLU came from the need to define what makes us uniquely Mortenson.  A way to describe who we are, how we treat each other, and what experience we want to bring to our customers. It's the clear, shared language around belonging at Mortenson and what it looks like to contribute.  
    Danielle sits down with Justin Swierk and Ann Ayres from our talent team to discuss why it's essential to take the secret out of the secret sauce here at Mortenson. We get into why having a clearly defined leadership development culture that's accessible to everyone is critical. And why defined culture principles resonate with those who succeed at Mortenson.

    Please connect with Danielle, Justin, or Ann!

    Want to help continue to develop LeadBLU? Danielle is hiring.
    Want to work with friendly people like us? We're hiring.

    • 11 min

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