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HOW THE UTAH DIVISION
CAME TO BE
By Kyle Whitham
Division Manager
BUSTLING WITH GROWTH -
SALT LAKE CITY OFFICE
In the January newsletter, Todd Klimas Our reputation as an employee-owned organization who takes
wrote about our growth strategy and care of its people is quickly spreading in the valley. This has
how we recently expanded into Idaho. allowed us to make numerous important hires over the past several
months and we have added a handful of excellent foremen, multiple
Our typical expansion approach is to apprentice and journeyman electricians, and we have been able to
buy a local electrical contractor that start our own BIM operation in Salt Lake. We currently have 90
serves comparable markets and has employee-owners working in Div. 5010 and five service vans in Div.
similar philosophies on safety and 5051. It is exciting to see how fast we are growing.
customer service. Recently completed projects:
Ÿ We recently completed Phase 1 of the Salt Lake City International
In 2016, with an eye on Utah, Airport Terminal Re-Development project. This project presented
Todd visited a few electrical numerous challenges for a team that, at the beginning, was relatively
contractors getting a feel for the new to the marketplace, and new to each other. What started off as a
$7 million dollar project quickly ballooned into a $23 million
market and a pulse on prospective undertaking, a tough slog for any business unit to take on. I can
companies. After several meetings confidently say that we not only made it through this project, but we
with Capital Electric, a deal was executed very well, made a respectable profit, and bolstered Wilson
Electric's reputation as one of the main players in town. This project
made and on September 1, 2016, also afforded us the opportunity to build a workforce that would not
they became part of the Wilson have been possible without the growing backlog.
Electric team. Ÿ We also successfully completed our first project at Northrop Grumman's
Salt Lake facility. This relationship with Northrop has led to WESC's
Utah Service division having a solid presence at this facility year-round
Since joining Wilson Electric, the with a T&M contract.
Utah Division has continued to
grow and currently has 95 Current projects:
employee-owners. Last year, the Ÿ We currently have 80+ electricians at the New Utah State Correctional
Facility. Our scope encompasses four buildings (Intake Building,
group completed one of the Offender Therapy, Food Service and Inmate Pod Center) as well as Site
largest projects performed by Security. We will begin to wrap this work up in Q4 of 2021.
Wilson Electric at the Salt Lake Ÿ One of the hallmarks of a successful business unit is repeat business.
City International Airport. We are currently working on a ground up retail center in Spanish Fork,
UT with a smaller GC in the area. We have completed four projects with
them thus far and are building a great relationship there.
