FEATURE
The Foundation of Success
Hiring a diverse range of talented employees, from project managers
to cost controllers, can have the biggest impact on your business
For pile driving contractors, hiring the right staff members
can lay the foundation for a successful business.
Contractors look to hire employees with a diverse set of
skills, which can make the process of finding new employees long
and arduous.
It’s a prospect that can lead some companies to ask, “Where do
we even begin?”
Hays is a recruiting company with a worldwide presence. The
company, which has been in the industry for over 50 years, is
spread over 33 countries, employing 10,000 people. Last year, the
company placed 77,000 people into permanent jobs and 244,000
people into temporary roles.
Hays originally entered the U.S. market in 2009 and then
acquired veteran staffing firm Veredus in 2014. Today, the company
operates as Hays and has 12 office located across the U.S. The company
has divisions that specialize in construction and often works
directly with the pile driving industry.
“Within our company, we have many specialists who only recruit
in certain areas. I look after the civil construction transit and marine
areas,” said Greg Belpomme, a principal consultant with Hays.
“Obviously, within the marine areas there’s a great deal of foundation
and pile work. We also have another division here that solely looks
after the foundation and excavation portions of civil construction.
We do significant work for heavy general civil contractors. My colleagues
and I specifically look after different parts of the divisions
including marine, transit and a subdivision with a focus on the excavation
side in the northeast corridor of the U.S.”
Belpomme says that Hays can help pile driving contractors hire
a range of employees: project managers, estimators, superintendents,
health and safety representatives and cost controllers.
Hays is often hired by employers that bid on public agency roles,
such as jobs for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey or
the United States Army Corps of Engineers. This means that Hays
puts a lot of work into recruiting top notch estimators.
By Pat Rediger
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