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OPERATIONS
HIRING, TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
With a team focused on hiring, training and Early in the year, using a series of analytical
Construction & development under new leadership, C&M tools to examine team member engagement,
Manufacturing experienced heightened participation in its Haskell identified operational challenges
monthly training sessions that enhanced rapid
inhibiting its profitability and growth, project
knowledge transfer to team members earlier contract compliance and overall financial
The C&M team integrated all project in their careers. These sessions have been a outcomes. From this session, the C&M team
management, field management, project resounding success and will continue in the concentrated on six functional elements
scheduling, project financial controls, Self- upcoming year, along with the rollout of a to enhance over the course of the year:
performance and manufacturing teams time- and skills-based rotational cross-training ◆ Project financial reporting
under an aligned leadership team. The new program. This new program is designed to
structure enhanced project performance ensure all early-career project management ◆ Meeting cadence and communication
by market and provided industry-specific team members get appropriate exposure to structures to guarantee all team
guidance for project management teams the majority of skills and responsibilities, under members receive the appropriate
that migrated markets. The team managed the guidance of subject matter experts, to detailed information at the right time
its leadership resources to account for accelerate their growth into high-functioning to ensure operational consistency
growth in high-margin, high-opportunity project management team members. ◆ Scheduling and project planning
markets and softening in others. The PROJECT CONTROLS
transition incorporated project managers Project Controls focused the year on organizing ◆ Enhancement of superintendent performance
from legacy groups into the Water and and aligning team members that had been ◆ Overall resource training management
Industrial Water Markets to manage key widely dispersed and not fully unified over
strategic opportunities with positive several years. This organization and alignment of ◆ Prime contract summary development
outcomes. The C&M team will continue to job titles, functions and responsibilities will allow for ease of reference for project teams
look for opportunities for cross-training rapid deployment of project controls in 2024 and total economic value calculation to
and cross-deployment of teams across and will help ensure positive financial outcomes. drive best- and worst-case scenarios
all markets to ensure proper coverage as Project Scheduling added experienced resources This continuous improvement exercise
part of the company’s growth initiative.
during the year and deployed on a greater will create a more efficient operation
number of projects. The team began the process with better insight into project
of producing a unified detailed report to better outcomes and less fee leakage.
understand schedule progress on each project
against critical milestones and completion
dates. This work will continue in the new year.
8 Haskell ◆ 2023 Annual Report to Shareholders
