Welcoming Vern to the Grade Tech Team
Grade Tech is proud to welcome Vern, Project Manager and Ready Mix Vice President, to the team. The Salt Lake City native and lifelong resident brings decades of experience and a true tradesman mentality to the job. Rory Hall explains that Vern is a rare find in today’s job market—a dedicated, lifelong tradesman who has a passion for the trades and the job. “I am grateful for the opportunity to [...]
Joe Mailo Celebrates 8 Years at Grade Tech by Helping Pets Find Their Forever Homes
Joe Mailo, Heavy Equipment Operator, is celebrating eight years with the company this month. To commemorate that milestone, he has elected to help a pet rescue foundation that he and his wife, Denise, have been supporting for years—the Forever Family Rescue Foundation. The foundation supports animal shelters across the country to ensure that the most at-risk dogs find a forever family. If one shelter is crowded, the foundation will help [...]
Welcoming Jonah Carpenter to the Grade Tech Team
Grade Tech is proud to welcome Jonah Carpenter, Heavy Equipment Operator, to the team. Jonah, who holds a Class A CDL and has Foreman experience, also serves as a Truck Driver and is an all-around guy who can fill in wherever he’s needed. The Kentucky native, who grew up in West Jordan, Utah, says that he developed his interest in the trades early in life, watching family members who worked [...]
Mark Rutter Celebrates 2 Years at Grade Tech
Mark Rutter, Foreman, is celebrating two years on the job at Grade Tech. That is two years in his current run with the company. Mark worked for Grade Tech several years ago, starting as a Heavy Equipment Operator then moving into a Foreman role, but his family needed him at home, “off the road,” so he moved into a couple of different jobs that kept him close to home. Once [...]
Justin Hughes Joins Grade Tech Team
Grade Tech is proud to welcome Justin Hughes, Laborer, to the team. A skilled welder, Justin came to Grade Tech to learn a new skill and a new trade. “We’re always looking for guys like Justin here at Grade Tech,” said Rory. “Justin came in with a desire to learn and develop new skills in a new trade. He’s willing to work hard and take direction from the guys on [...]
Dalton Newbold Celebrates 3 Years at Grade Tech by Supporting the Parkinson’s Foundation
Dalton Newbold, Junior Estimator and Drone Operator, is celebrating 3 years with the company this month. To commemorate that milestone, he is supporting an organization that hits close to home, the Parkinson’s Foundation. The national organization aims to make life better for people with Parkinson’s disease by improving care and advancing research toward a cure. Dalton lost his grandpa to Parkinson’s disease a year and a half ago. He saw [...]
Proud To Be American: Grade Tech Stands Behind Our Country’s Roots
The challenges we are facing in our country today are unprecedented. Our way of life and our history are being attacked by our own people. The woke movement is tearing down our country and making it weaker, destroying or dismissing the things that made this country great. Rather than attacking the foundation of our country for the mistakes we made in the past and trying to “mend fences” for stuff [...]
Amanda Williams Celebrates 3 Years at Grade Tech by Supporting the Rocky Mountain Roundup, Wheeling for a Cause
Grade Tech Executive Assistant Amanda Williams is celebrating 3 years with the company this month. To commemorate that milestone, she is supporting Rocky Mountain Roundup, Wheeling for a Cause, a trail ride event that raises money to help a child in the local community. This year’s event, which was held on July 22 in Preston, Idaho benefitted a little girl named Holland who has Spina Bifida and needs help with [...]
Shooting for the big bucks — why patience and perseverance pays off big
In the construction business, we often see the money chasers. You know who they are—they’re the guys that jump from job to job, moving to wherever and whoever will pay them the most. They stay for a couple of months or maybe a year, then they’re off and running again looking for their next big score. The problem with that, however, is that these guys are living in the [...]
A Bucking Good Time at the Oakley Rodeo
A great time was had by Grade Tech employees and their family members who attended the 87th Annual Oakley City PRC Independence Day Rodeo at the Oakley Recreation Center on July 4th weekend. Grade Tech sponsored the event, which is sanctioned by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA), and invited employees and families to take in the activities throughout the weekend. The weekend featured a full-blown rodeo with a [...]