James Sauder

• Manage 15 business units in all aspects including operations, financial, personnel development, compliance and safety
• Lead teams that successfully dredge 2.2 millions tons per year on the Missouri River
• Manage high volume cement terminal including barge logistics
• 50 million in annual revenue

• Manage 7 business units in all aspects including operations, sales, quality control, financial, safety and compliance, personnel mentoring and team building. 55 million annual revenue.
• Built greenfield high production aggregate mining and asphalt production site in Southern California. 1.2 million tons annual production
• Improved aggregate production rates by 25 percent
• Strong safety focus and performance-no incidents during 8.5 years
• Focused leadership on several 100,000 tons paving projects yielded positive margin results
• Grew quality control team into cohesive unit that performs at very high levels
• Increased recycling RAP from 12% to 30%. Highest rap usage in Granite California Group

• Managed all aspects of four hot mix asphalt locations
• Managed three aggregate sites
• Extensive asphalt and shingle recycling up to 50% rap usage
• High production and sales-600,000 tons annual volume
• 30 million annual revenue

• Managed three sand and gravel operations with crushed asphalt stone
• Improved production by 50% with less personnel
• Safety and MSHA compliance
• Grew sales by 60% over seven years
• Managed complete rebuild of 250 ton dragline over several years
• One operation with underwater mining utilizing large dragline

• P & L responsibility for 45 unit trucking company, seven sand and gravel locations and site development company
• New aggregate site development
• New equipment procurement
• 75 employees
• Annual revenue 12 million

Complete P&L responsibility

Purchased all stone, cement and lime for parent companies

Delivered purchased materials to all jobs

Created concrete recycling program resulting in $500,000 annualized savings

New equipment purchasing

20 employees

Created external sales business from 0 to 3 million dollars revenue

• Managed two sand and gravel operations
• Underwater suction dredging at one location
• Brought new market potentials and created outside sales focus
• Grew external client base by 50 percent
• Optimized processes to maximize efficiency
• Created maintenance planning system to control cost and improve uptime and availability

• Operated equipment such as front-end loaders, bulldozers, and excavators.
• Adjusted and maintained plant and mobile equipment for safety and performance.
• Drove CDL dump trucks delivering materials
• Built external customer base, added fifty new customers, improving profitability and revenue growth
• Learned to operate and maintain heavy equipment and dump trucks