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Vice President Operations of PayneCrest, Cory Borchardt, describes the unique mark the company has made on the electrical contractor industry
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ayneCrest maintains a vision to be the most trusted electrical contractor, the top choice for complex and high-risk projects, and to be recognized for its excellent levels of customer satisfaction. The company prides itself on an interwoven combination of profitable growth, passionate employees, a labor-centric strategy, and customer-focused ethos. Cory Borchardt is a new addition to PayneCrest, having taken up the mantle of Vice President of Operations in September 2016. He has a solid 15 years of experience in the sector behind him, from industry and utility electrical contracting to large EPC powerhouse and manufacturing projects. In his latest role,
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Borchardt oversees large travelling projects all over the US, which currently are predominantly in the power and automotive sectors. So how does PayneCrest manage its supply chain for these large, widespread projects? “We’re somewhat unique in that realm,” says Borchardt. “We’re really focused on prefabrication, engineering support, and partnering with clients. When we have a large project in a remote location, we go out and try to partner with a supplier that has a large footprint – or a smaller footprint within a specific geography – who can support the transportation of supplies to our facilities even at the last minute, and keep us on a competitive landscape. We use in-house
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“The level of engineering support we have really makes us the best choice for a large general contractor” – Cory Borchardt, Vice President Operations
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trucking and third parties if we need to, and if you talked to our suppliers, they would consider themselves our partners. “We like to have conversations early on to work out where we all see the project going, what we expect from the partner, what type of timetables we’ll need, and maintenance of budget. What can we do to improve the process? Are there any material opportunities we can utilize? Everyone brings something different to the table.”
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PayneCrest is a union contractor with a somewhat transient workforce, but the workforce is always the company’s responsibility. It offers safety training on-site, and boasts some impressive statistics. The safety page of PayneCrest’s website displays real-time updates showing the number of days passed without an injury, the below industry average for lost time injury rate, and safety awards, among other figures. The
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company is a member of various don’t accept mediocrity when it safety organizations, including comes to supervision. If you don’t ISNetworld, Avetta, and First perform, we coach at first to try Verify, and PayneCrest’s record is to get you where you need to be, particularly impressive considering but long-term performance is a the high-risk projects it undertakes. necessity to be part of our team.” “I think a lot of our success Part of PayneCrest’s staffing in safety comes from strategy is to empower both our senior and each employee field management,” to allow them to Borchardt explains. advance. According “One thing we to Borchardt, take a lot of pride “we really rely in is using the on the project Number of employees highest quality managers and at PayneCrest foremen that are field staff to control Electric, Inc. able to not only teach their own destiny,” that safety message, but and as such, the company lead by example and set the doesn’t micromanage day-to-day safety expectation. We really operations. Instead, it trusts hold a high standard for our field its contract workers to work at supervision and I think most of the a consistently high quality and guys that are with us long-term exercise their own entrepreneurial wear that as a badge of honor. We spirit in executing all tasks.
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them and work to achieve it. It talks about how we partner with labor and are respectful, open, and honest about conditions on a job. You really see, if you talk to PayneCrest customers, that they see us as part of the solution on a project because of the way our people operate. Other contractors come to our engineering staff to Critical power applications are part of every industry; protecting them starts with reliable KOHLER generators from CK Power. get answers because they become From small-load residential and business to heavy industry, every KOHLER generator is engineered to provide maximum a hub of information on the job. power, performance, flexibility and fuel efficiency. “Even when it’s not in our OU AN EPEND N scope to install, we try to help where we can; our customers see that and trusts us as a partner. Your complete source of engine and generator power. When all is said and done, and when our customer comes back CNR_CKpwr_NewKohlerAd.indd 1 1/22/15 12:00 PM An important aspect of the job for to us and says ‘thank you’ and field staff and project managers is wants to talk to us about the customer satisfaction, something next thing they’re doing, that’s PayneCrest is especially proud of definitely the most rewarding having an excellent reputation for. part of the business for us.” “We strive for repeat business, PayneCrest, like many other and we have a strategy called electrical contractors of its The PayneCrest Way, which really size, has a responsibility to highlights what our core values are keep ahead of the curve when it to our customers,” says Borchardt. comes to technology. Its team of “We share that information with professional engineers and CAD
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staff is constantly undergoing further education, something which has led to the company being at the forefront of building information management (BIM) use. “On large commercial projects, general contractors are using BIM, and we’re part of the coordination that goes with that,” explains Borchardt. “We make sure everything fits in the right place, and we take it a step further by modelling an electrical room, prefabricating the supports and
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layout of the conduits, verifying that everything is going to fit properly, and then prefabricating the entire thing with a BIM 3D picture of how it will look when it’s done. This can be a great laborsaving opportunity, reducing congestion on a job, and placing the safety issue into the prefab facility where we can control it. When we get into a big job where we can be effective on pre-construction, the level of engineering support we have really makes us the best choice for a large general contractor.” Included in PayneCrest’s plan for the future is to continue to grow in the electrical power construction market, with a focus on solar and gas power construction to bring prefabrication, spooling, and engineering
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expertise to new projects. “You don’t see a lot of prefabrication in a power house, because of the nature of the fasttrack EPC projects,” Borchardt concludes. “It becomes difficult but I really think that PayneCrest’s expertise lends itself nicely to that industry. We’re one of the largest contractors here in St. Louis, and we’re all very similar in the work we do, but the thing to emphasize here is that our engineering and pre-construction team is handsdown the most advanced and sophisticated. When you look at the nationwide footprint of contractors that are doing the big power and automotive jobs, you’re going to see PayneCrest right at the top of that list of expertise, customer satisfaction, and repeat business.”
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10411 Baur Blvd St. Louis, MO, USA 63132 Tel. +1 314-996-0400 www.paynecrest.com