Apr 14, 2020

Rock Project Management Services

Saxby

Renton-based Rock Project Management Services hired Amber Saxby as project manager. Saxby was a project manager at Vanir Construction Management. RPM provides owner's representative services to public and private clients throughout Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska.

Wayne's Roofing

McKee

Sumner-based Wayne's Roofing promoted Bryan McKee to safety supervisor. McKee started as an apprentice with Pierce County Roofers and Waterproofers Local 153 in 2002. Since then, he has completed training in OSHA 30 and 510, has been an asbestos supervisor since 2014, and most recently an instructor for the apprenticeship program. He continues ongoing safety education in his new position. Wayne's focuses on commercial buildings.

Modern Machinery

Blankenship

Michael Blankenship is Modern Machinery's new territory manager in Kent. Blankenship has been with the company for 12 years. Modern Machinery is one of the largest Komatsu dealers in North America, and has been selling and servicing heavy machinery since 1944, according to the company's website.

Mission Support Alliance

The Columbia River Basin chapter of the Project Management Institute awarded the information management team at Mission Support Alliance with the 2020 Project of the Year Award. MSA was recognized for its work on the Hanford data center modernization and closure project, led by project manager Dennis Rains. MSA says the project increased efficiency and will save the Department of Energy as much as $2 million over 10 years.

Apr 07, 2020

Construction Center of Excellence

Grassman

Kristi Grassman is the new director of the Construction Center of Excellence at Renton Technical College. Grassman has over 20 years of workforce development experience, including stints with Aerospace Joint Apprenticeship Committee, WorkForce Central and Tacoma Goodwill Industries. She also co-owns an automotive business in Sumner.

Mission Support Alliance

Three Mission Support Alliance staffers from Richland recently won Game Changer awards at the Connected Plant Conference in Atlanta. They include: Todd Synoground, vice president of Public Works; Ashley Ward, director of Information Systems; and Jeff Flora, creative technologist. The team was cited for bringing Microsoft's HoloLens mixed-reality platform to the Hanford Site. HoloLens is expected to enhance operational efficiency, improve maintenance planning, modernize training, and provide reliability and availability improvements of key infrastructure systems at Hanford. MSA consists of Leidos and Centerra Group, who are responsible for mission support at Hanford.

ACPA

Roy and Dawn Thompson, co-founders of Champion Concrete Pumping in Hauser, Idaho, won the Pioneer Award from the American Concrete Pumping Association. Champion was cited for being the first to use separate placing booms and bring in big booms to the greater Coeur d'Alene/Spokane area. ACPA gives the award to its members who have been active in early development of concrete pumping, advanced the industry and improved conditions for concrete pumping.