Precision Precast

4 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 9 PREC I S ION PRECAST ERECTORS , LLC Precision Precast Erectors has a reputation for doing things the right way – even when it isn’t easy. They pride themselves on completing what they promise to do and oftentimes faster than they said it could be done. Even so, the past 12 months have made for some challenging times. LaVé reports, “We had about 25% of our scheduled work volume for last year pushed into this year because the general contractors couldn’t get the sites done on time. Design issues and labor issues ended up pushing projects into the late winter, early spring timeframe. So that made it challenging for us last year.” After figuring out how to keep his employees busy when the work was pushed back last year, LaVé then experienced the flipside of that coin as they completed the jobs scheduled for Q4 during Q1 and Q2 on top of everything else that was already scheduled. “Hats off to my team and my Operations Leader, Caleb Wohletz,” boasts LaVé. “He did a fabulous job of scheduling, coordinating, and managing the overflow for his leaders that work underneath him. He did an amazing job of keeping all the balls in the air and keeping things moving. He thrives at satisfying client expectations and managing client schedules on their behalf to work inside the parameters of what is really possible. For perspective, we did about 65% of the volume that we did for all of last year already through May. If you look at that through June, we’ll be at 75% of the volume. We are on track to do 50% more volume this year than we did last year.” As LaVé thinks back over all the projects that they have completed in the last few months, he gives credit to the team they have in place. “Our leadership staff has stayed about the same over the past year,” describes LaVé. “Our mix of work has actually been very favorable for the amount