Stephen Grooms

Role:

Managed 30+ employees to service 4 maintenance contracts related to doors between O'hare airport and Midway Airport. This also included all United Hanger doors along with a all high speed vehicle doors. Required to handle the day to day safety tasks from JHS's to employee required training to perform their respective tasks and perform regular safety inspections to ensure crew alignment. Along with all sales, estimating, and job management related to the work performed at O'hare and midway under Builders Chicago.

Key Contributions:

• Provided clear scheduling and crew management
• Tracked company equipment and maintenance logs
• tracked employee certifications and training and kept them up to date
• handled all sales from start to finish. this included quotes, material ordering, crew scheduling, project management, and final billing.

Role:

Oversee all Midwest projects and service work related to field employee performance

Key Contributions:

• -Kept relationships with both general contractors and owners to ensure future opportunities.
• -worked with engineering and project management to problem solve and complete projects
• -provided project estimates, bid submittal, and page turn meetings.

Project: One Congress

Role:

Oversee project completion and continue superintendent duties after the current superintendent had to be removed from the project. This project was 75% complete and required extensive relationship repair with the general contractor, local unions, and Vendors. This project also required direct involvement with engineering and project management to solve complex problems with multiple wall types and intersections along with financial strains from the history of the project.

Key Contributions:

• Rebuilt relationships with both and GC and local unions
• Worked with engineering on Bluebeam, Autocad, and 3D modeling programs to solve complex issues.
• Worked with Project management to complete regular manpower report estimates for the future of the project and help bring the profit margin back to the target range.
• Coordinated directly with subcontractors to perform their work efficiently and timely.
• Handled daily manpower schedules along with all required safety paperwork. This includes daily tool box talks, JHA’s, Monthly training, and any requirements from the city of Boston, the general contractor, and Benson Industries.
• Installed the second all glass point support wall for Benson.
• Worked with the estimating department during bidding to help acquire this project

Project: One Post Office Square

Role:

Oversee the installation of curtain wall on the project with a subcontractor performing the installation. This required accountability for all aspects from material scheduling, trucking logistics, QA/QC, local labor agreements, safety plans, and coordination with the general contractor to ensure everything was followed per the contract and the subcontractor would not be able to back charge Benson Industries for any form of performance issues.

Challenges:

• The building was designed to build out of sequence on an existing structure. Levels 5 through 19 were re-clad floors. then levels 30 to 43 were over clad floors with the tenants still in the building. Levels 1 to 22 on the back side were new construction on an addition. Then the final phase were levels 20 to 29 that were re-clad again to connect the lower and upper completed tower. There was also a main lobby point support wall with 40’ glass fins that was self performed by Benson.
• Key Contributions:
• Managed all scheduling related to the curtain wall contract on the project
• Managed all QA/QC of material on the project
• Worked with engineering to provide fixes for an already existing structure that was out of tolerance.
• Worked with engineering to install the first all glass point support wall for Benson Industries.
• Worked with project management to ensure the project was following the anticipated schedule and keeping the projected profit margin
• Work with the estimating department during the bidding of this project.

Project: Northwestern Mutual Tower

• 600’ tower that I had to manage with another superintendent to work as a team to handle all field operations including:
• Creating a working safety culture
• Manage day to day tasks with crews to ensure they are performing efficiently
• Work with the general contractor for scheduling and following the contract.
• Manage local trucking and logistics
• Ensure building issues were resolved in a way that did not hinder costs of the job.
• A few of the challenges on this project were:
• High winds from lake Michigan
• Small building footprint with little room to unload
• Unit size required all units to be externally set by ground crane or tower crane.
• Inexperienced local labor.

Project: WERC University of Chicago

Role:

I was brought in to replace a Superintendent that had to leave due to family issues. The job was 80% complete and was using a local sub contractor to install the curtain wall system. My responsibilities included oversight of the sub contractor, managing the project to completion with the general contractor, trucking and logistics, and QA/QC for the project.

Project: Bienen School of music, Northwestern University

Role:

During this project I started as a general Foreman and moved into a Superintendent role by the end of the project. This was a small 5 story project with sloped walls and an interior second wall system to provide sound resistant rooms for the music school.