Be taught why this Haskell Superintendent Makes Room for the Enjoyable Stuff

Murray Taylor tells a narrative in regards to the summer season his son labored for Haskell.

John Thomas Taylor was 21 and knew nothing about development, however Project Superintendent Joe Kaiser took him underneath his wing.

The elder Taylor, a Haskell Director of Project Development, stated he noticed his son driving an excavator.

“I asked Joe what he was doing in an excavator,” Taylor stated.

Project Superintendent Joe Kaiser responded, “I told him if I don’t let him do the fun stuff, he won’t enjoy the hard stuff.”

By the tip of summer season, John Thomas was stunned at how a lot he had realized.

“He told me he felt like a man with a real job and paycheck,” the daddy stated.

Kaiser says an enormous a part of his job is mentoring.

“That’s what someone did for me when I got in the business, taught me pipe fitting and welding. That was my trade craft for most of my career,” Kaiser stated.

“Joe is very experienced in mechanical processes, equipment and piping,” Murray Taylor stated. “He takes pride in quality work and maintaining a strong relationship with plant staff and ownership. He loves taking care of people, having a good time and creating a fun work environment.”

Kaiser is at the moment working in Columbus, Georgia, on the South Columbus Water Resource Facility Solids Handling and Secondary Fine Screening challenge. As Construction Manager at Risk (CMAR) on the $25.9 million challenge, Haskell is changing and increasing the thickening and dewatering techniques, upgrading the headworks screening system and enhancing the solids dealing with course of to help a peak circulate of 42 million gallons a day at this mixed sewer and stormwater reclamation facility. The challenge is predicted to be accomplished by September.

Michael Hoisington, Senior Project Director – Water, stated a part of the key to Kaiser’s success with workers, subcontractors and purchasers is his skill to construct a neighborhood.

“People want to get engaged,” Hoisington stated. “He’s got a positive outlook, always happy and joking, but he always gets things done.”

And he’s all the time in search of a purpose to have a good time – normally a barbecue.

“We usually have a cookout in the evenings so they get to know each other outside of work,” Kaiser stated. “It helps them bond. We have anything I can grill—steaks, hot dogs, burgers. Whatever the guys want.”

One latest barbecue celebrated laying 5,000 toes of pipe with out hanging underground utilities. Kaiser stated the property was constructed within the Sixties, and the underground infrastructure was poorly mapped.

“We found an old road under one of the roads with a culvert and everything,” Kaiser says.

Hoisington stated some folks attributed it to luck, however he stated Kaiser’s crew dug, probed and labored round pipes.

“They never struck or broke a single utility. That’s a big deal,” Hoisington stated.

Kaiser grew up in Camden County, Georgia, and nonetheless has household there. He bought into development in North Carolina. For eight years, he and his spouse, Leslie, and two kids traveled across the nation to jobs in a 43-foot RV.

They traveled all through the South and ended up in Florida, the place Kaiser bought acquainted with Haskell.

“We were looking to settle down, and Chris York told me that Haskell was a great place to work,” Kaiser stated.

He began work in February 2020, the beginning of the pandemic.

“We didn’t slow down much at all,” Kaiser says.

Working for Haskell was totally different than what he was used to.

“I had been working on mega projects — $3 billion with 3,000 to 4,000 people. It was high stress, seven days a week. You didn’t get to know people,” Kaiser stated.

“The others were go, go, go, get it done. This one is go slow, do your due diligence. I feel connected with Haskell. The people are great. Everybody seems to be out to help you. Other places I’ve worked, if something went wrong, there was finger-pointing. At Haskell, if something goes wrong, someone comes out to help you.”

Kaiser and his household reside in Crystal River, Florida, however he nonetheless lives within the RV at job websites. In his off time, he likes to golf, fish and spend time together with his spouse. And he likes tinkering with a 1941 Ford tractor.

“I still use it,” Kaiser says. “It’s an old Ford. You can’t beat it.”