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Ryan Bate

Summary

Data and result driven leader with proven success. Prepared and willing to lead from the front do any task needed to complete projects under cost and ahead of schedule. Safety is always my top priority. Strong believer in knowledge is power and that knowledge builds successful, confident, high performing crews. A proven leader who knows he is only as good as the crews he leads and that mentorship and training build successful companies. Collaborative decision maker who realizes that others may have the better solution which is always the goal. Committed to the idea that quality will not be compromised. Strong professional relationship builder by being honest and delivering on promises. Proven to deliver on time, under budget, and with high quality results.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Underground Utilities Division Manager

Northshore Rock Products and Excavation
06.2024 - Current
  • Created SOP's to streamline work flow, create an extremely efficient process and eliminate confusion to complete projects on time, under budget while ensuring high quality and consistent results.
  • Foster positive collaborative working relationship with customers to ensure satisfaction. That result in repeat customers and more workflow.
  • Negotiate material cost, and subcontractor bids to control cost for maximum profit.
  • Maintain a safety first company culture through continual training, education, and leadership.
  • Procuring projects through by building reputation of honesty, quality, and professionalism.
  • Creating, managing, and tracking budgets. Making changes to work flow as necessary to complete project under budget.
  • Take offs and estimates to create competitive bids.
  • Maintain and build strong relationships with subcontractors and suppliers allowing for high quality, smooth work flow and project completion on schedule.
  • Obtain permitting needed for each phase of the project.
  • Obtain and approval of submittals.
  • Ensure a safe jobsite by ensuring crews have the needed equipment and materials to comply with OSHA standards.
  • Ensuring that contractual agreements are fulfilled in everyway.
  • Identify any potential issues, risk, or challenges ahead of time to be able to mitigate, resolve or eliminate issues found before it cause a delay in schedule.
  • Ensure that the correct equipment for the job is used to be as cost saving, efficient, and fast as possible.
  • Schedule and document all required inspections and testing are completed and meet standard.
  • Ensure compliance with SWPPP and other environmental protection requirements.
  • Manage day to day field operations and manage manpower for optimal performance.
  • Manage shifts in priorities to ensure no disruption to schedule, cost, or efficiency.
  • Communicate with crews on jobsites to ensure they understand critical path, schedule, and to understand any concerns or potential issues.
  • Work with entire crews to ensure that everyone on the crew understands the critical path and how to follow that critical path complete every job successfully.
  • Mentor, train, educate, and encourage all team members to maintain a culture of continual improvement and positive work environment, also eliminating confusion and frustration.
  • Work with engineers, customers, and inspectors to address issues or to improve plans to save customers money, time, and deliver a high quality end product.
  • Identify, bid, obtain approval, and completion of change orders.
  • Ensure company quality and safety standards are always adhered to.
  • Know scope scope, process, and budget and communicate these to all team members.
  • Manage supply deliveries, ensuring that all materials needed are delivered on time and meet project standards.
  • Manage multiple active projects and crews ensuring successful completion of every step of project.
  • Mentor, train, and encourage all team members building stronger teams. With a complete understanding of how, what, when, and why we do the things we do in the order we do to create a cohesive team.
  • Drive efficiency by holding brainstorming sessions with the teams on the ground and communicating with experts and project engineers as needed.
  • Maintain strong relationships based on trust with inspectors, city officials, engineers, and customers.
  • Read, understand, and follow plans, blue prints, and standards for the project.
  • Read and comply with geotechnical reports for each project
  • Ensure all materials used on project meet or surpass quality standard of project.
  • Communicate any RFI to the correct authority, and communicate the clarified information to correct team members clearly.
  • Create, adjust, and maintain a 3 week look ahead schedule.
  • Close out project upon completion.
  • Ensure billing is down correctly and completely.
  • Resolve and issues that may arise by staying calm, clear communication, honesty, and a willingness to do what needs to be done to remedy the issue.

Superintendent

Next Construction
03.2016 - 06.2024
  • Reviewed design specifications critically for accuracy, identifying potential issues before they escalated into costly delays.
  • Ensured correct equipment needed to complete projects efficiently were being used.
  • Reviewed plans and standards with crews to ensure it was clearly understood by entire crew for smooth efficient installation.
  • Reviewed plans and standards to ensure all materials being used on project met project standards.
  • Ensured all required inspections and testing were completed, accepted and documented.
  • Created and maintained a culture of safety first through continuous training, ensuring all safety equipment was available on site, and being used correctly.
  • Managed GPS system and GPS equipment ensuring calibration was correct and set up correctly for each project.
  • Maintained great working relationships with inspectors by performing high quality work always.
  • Created and maintained 3 week look ahead schedules.
  • Ensured all materials needed to complete each step of the project were delivered before needed to avoid delays.
  • Identified and resolved potential issues before it could cause a delay.
  • Performed layout, transferred elevations, adjusted slopes and grades as needed for elimination of costly extra processes and cost.
  • Mentored all members of crews to create a more efficient cohesive team.
  • Operated numerous pieces of equipment as needed.
  • Lead brainstorming sessions with entire crews to create the best plan to complete projects the most efficiently possible.
  • Recorded all plan changes through redline plans.
  • Documented and tracked daily production totals and events on each job daily.
  • Reviewed production and tracked cost to ensure budget and schedule were being met.
  • Made any adjustments needed to correct any delays to schedule or to bring cost back into budget.
  • Managed man power as needed on each phase of project to complete on schedule and under budget.
  • Maintained clean organized jobsites and inspected equipment for any problems that needed to be repaired.
  • Managed multiple active projects and multiple crews.
  • Maintained a positive work environment by educating crews and giving them the support they needed.
  • Maintained equipment and made repairs on equipment that was possible to eliminate down time.
  • Scheduled and managed subcontractors.
  • Recorded team members hours for payroll.

Education

No Degree - Construction Management

Weber State University
Ogden, UT

Skills

  • Strategic planning and execution
  • Creative problem-solving
  • Performance and efficiency optimization
  • Bilingual
  • Time and cost management
  • Reliability
  • Organization
  • Excellent verbal and written communication
  • Collaborative decision making
  • Team building and mentoring
  • Leading through example
  • Detail and quality oriented

Certification

OSHA 10

OSHA 30

CDL Class A

Chemicals and Hazardous Materials

Electrical Safety

Cranes and Rigging

Environmental Safety

Fall Protection

Personal Protective Equipment

CPR

First Aid

Trench Safety



Languages

Spanish
Native or Bilingual

Areas of experience

  • Underground utilities- both wet and dry
  • Civil construction
  • Heavy civil construction
  • DOT
  • General excavating
  • Grading

Timeline

Underground Utilities Division Manager

Northshore Rock Products and Excavation
06.2024 - Current

Superintendent

Next Construction
03.2016 - 06.2024

No Degree - Construction Management

Weber State University

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