The past few weeks have been extremely eventful. The Build U interns were able to assist in the MAGNA organized volunteer operation at the Ideal Gardens. This was a great experience for me and the rest of the interns to…
Category: 2017
Week 12-Executive Interview-Loren Venegas-Mike Orosey
This week I had the opportunity to interview Loren Venegas who is the president of the Ideal Group and oversees the operations within Ideal Contracting. This was a great experience to learn information about an influential person within the company…
Week #7 – Yard – Grant Spears
My Seventh week at Ideal Contracting’s Yard was another valuable week of learning and hard work. Monday started with some new types of work. In the morning I was put in charge of empting one of the boxes that had come back from one…
Week 10 – Flint M5 – Chelsey Bejarano
This week was a nice and normal week which is nice because next week will be nothing but busy. Lots 1306 and 1307 were set along with the final section of the trestle. Everything seemed to flow very smoothly with no problems.…
Week 9 – Flint M5 – Chelsey Bejarano
Last week (week 8) I was in New Jersey for a week vacation to visit my grandparents. I had a fun time with my family and was glad to have some rest and relaxation after a long school year. This week we…
Week 7-Flint M5 – Chelsey Bejarano
We have finally started setting steel!!! I have been waiting for this day since I started. It has defiantly taken time to get to this point but I am excited to see it start going up. Currently this week in the “GA…
Nick Luxon – Interview
Week #14 Being the son of a mechanical plumber, Nick didn’t want to grow up to be like his dad. Surprisingly he wanted to major in special education and later learned that career choice wasn’t right for him. He went…
Week #10 Week #11 – PDPM – Adam Klebba
Hello! Due to some very busy past couple weeks and my vacation (which I enjoyed very much) I was slacking on my updated posts. Here is my redemption to make up for them. Week 10 I spent most of my…
Week 9- MPG/Flint/Executive Interview- Caleb Mitchum
Phase 2 of the Building 16 office renovation here at Milford Proving Grounds is now complete. The GM punch list walk occurred last week and they moved into the new space yesterday. There’s a week turnover between phase 2 and…
Executive Interview with Rachael Johnson – Tony Saucedo
BuildU interns are encouraged to interview and shadow an executive to learn about their corporate experience. For my interview, I had the privilege of sitting down with Ideal Group CFO Rachael Johnson. Rachael and I had an extended conversation about…