Precast Prestressed Concrete

Precast Prestressed Concrete
April 20, 2020 Marmelade-GF974

(Dr. Wafeek Wahby). Talk about money and jobs.

(Ms. Marty McIntyre). Okay.

(Dr. Wahby). In a normal economic situation, not now, normal situation. What is average salary, what are the jobs, what would our graduates do? Would be working in concreting, or managers, or what?

(Ms. McIntyre). Yeah, we have, our industry does a few things where they see graduates. Sometimes they’re project managers, where they come in and they’ll supervise the drawings and kind of, after the salesman gets the project in, you would supervise getting the drawings done, communicating with the client, making sure that the product gets to where it needs to be when it needs to be there, making sure that the materials are ordered for the products that you’re going to make, when they need to happen. So that could be a job. We also work with a lot of erectors, companies that erect both steel and pre-cast, and you could be a certified pre-cast erector and again, project manager-type jobs and, you know, supervising work like that. Marketing, I know a lot of people who’ve gone into sales and marketing with a good construction background and, you know, then work selling the pre-cast products. But usually you work your way up through a pre-stressing plant to a sales job. Those are usually some of the better-paying jobs, so I think a lot of people like to work their way into those. And, you know, some of our plants are union plants and some are not, so salaries really vary different places. But there’s also, you saw the quality assurance guy doing that, and sometimes they come up through the ranks or sometimes they’ll bring people in to do that. Engineering firms, there’s a lot of drafting that goes on using, usually, some kind of computer-aided design system. So we have drafters that draft all the different pieces after the engineers design them.

(Dr. Wahby). Now, if somebody is lucky to end up working for a plant, what is the magic number for average salary?

(Ms. McIntyre). You know what, I have no idea.

(Dr. Wahby). Okay. (Ms. McIntyre). I don’t know.

(Dr. Wahby). I’ll get you another question, easy one. What is relationship between the PCI that you mentioned earlier and whatever you said now. PCI, what is PCI?

(Ms. McIntyre). PCI is the Pre-cast Pre-stressed Concrete Institute, and I work for the Illinois-Wisconsin region. So, is that what you were asking?

(Dr. Wahby). They inspect the plants?

(Ms. McIntyre). Oh, yes. They have, I’m sorry, the plants that are members of PCI have to be PCI-certified plants, and that means that twice a year an inspector comes to the plant and checks all of the quality assurance manuals. He makes sure that all of the equipment’s calibrated, how do you store your materials, how do you train your workers, how do you deal with your customers. And twice a year he spends two days at the plant ensuring that they meet all of those quality issues.

(Dr. Wahby). Unannounced, unannounced.

(Ms. McIntyre). Unannounced, yes, yes.

(Dr. Wahby). Okay, very good. I think I’ll stop asking here questions, but I’ll ask the audience the last question, and whoever answers this question, I’ll give him a chocolate, how about that? If you can guess, what is the major of Marty McIntyre? You saw how professional she is in concrete and so forth. What do you think? Please, if you know it from before, you don’t qualify for that. But guess what was her major when she was undergrad. Any guess? Chocolate? (male speaker). Speech communication.

(Dr. Wahby). Speech communication, she is good with that. Very good.

(Ms. McIntyre). No, it wasn’t that.

(Dr. Wahby). She is talented. Now, I tell Marty, I tell Marty that she is a role model for a successful person. She will tell you where she started and where she is now, and this is a story of success and it’s inspired many students in the past to change careers, drastically, and be successful wherever they are. So bloom wherever you are. So what is your major?

(Ms. McIntyre). My major was English literature with an emphasis in journalism.

(Dr. Wahby). Okay, so you speak English.

(Ms. McIntyre). And then I got out of school and I was doing marketing for architecture firms, or for an architecture firm. And I decided I wanted to write more, so I went and worked for “Roads and Bridges” magazine. And then I worked for the “Concrete Producer” magazine. And then I worked for the Portland Cement Association. And now I work for PCI.

(Dr. Wafeek Wahby). Talk about money and jobs.

(Ms. Marty McIntyre). Okay.

(Dr. Wahby). In a normal economic situation, not now, normal situation. What is average salary, what are the jobs, what would our graduates do? Would be working in concreting, or managers, or what?

(Ms. McIntyre). Yeah, we have, our industry does a few things where they see graduates. Sometimes they’re project managers, where they come in and they’ll supervise the drawings and kind of, after the salesman gets the project in, you would supervise getting the drawings done, communicating with the client, making sure that the product gets to where it needs to be when it needs to be there, making sure that the materials are ordered for the products that you’re going to make, when they need to happen.

So that could be a job. We also work with a lot of erectors, companies that erect both steel and pre-cast, and you could be a certified pre-cast erector and again, project manager-type jobs and, you know, supervising work like that. Marketing, I know a lot of people who’ve gone into sales and marketing with a good construction background and, you know, then work selling the pre-cast products. But usually you work your way up through a pre-stressing plant to a sales job. Those are usually some of the better-paying jobs, so I think a lot of people like to work their way into those. And, you know, some of our plants are union plants and some are not, so salaries really vary different places. But there’s also, you saw the quality assurance guy doing that, and sometimes they come up through the ranks or sometimes they’ll bring people in to do that. Engineering firms, there’s a lot of drafting that goes on using, usually, some kind of computer-aided design system. So we have drafters that draft all the different pieces after the engineers design them.

(Dr. Wahby). Now, if somebody is lucky to end up working for a plant, what is the magic number for average salary?

(Ms. McIntyre). You know what, I have no idea.

(Dr. Wahby). Okay.

(Ms. McIntyre). I don’t know.

(Dr. Wahby). I’ll get you another question, easy one. What is relationship between the PCI that you mentioned earlier and whatever you said now. PCI, what is PCI?

(Ms. McIntyre). PCI is the Pre-cast Pre-stressed Concrete Institute, and I work for the Illinois-Wisconsin region. So, is that what you were asking?

(Dr. Wahby). They inspect the plants?

(Ms. McIntyre). Oh, yes. They have, I’m sorry, the plants that are members of PCI have to be PCI-certified plants, and that means that twice a year an inspector comes to the plant and checks all of the quality assurance manuals. He makes sure that all of the equipment’s calibrated, how do you store your materials, how do you train your workers, how do you deal with your customers. And twice a year he spends two days at the plant ensuring that they meet all of those quality issues.

(Dr. Wahby). Unannounced, unannounced.

(Ms. McIntyre). Unannounced, yes, yes.

(Dr. Wahby). Okay, very good. I think I’ll stop asking here questions, but I’ll ask the audience the last question, and whoever answers this question, I’ll give him a chocolate, how about that? If you can guess, what is the major of Marty McIntyre? You saw how professional she is in concrete and so forth. What do you think? Please, if you know it from before, you don’t qualify for that. But guess what was her major when she was undergrad. Any guess? Chocolate?

(male speaker). Speech communication.

(Dr. Wahby). Speech communication, she is good with that. Very good.

(Ms. McIntyre). No, it wasn’t that.

(Dr. Wahby). She is talented. Now, I tell Marty, I tell Marty that she is a role model for a successful person. She will tell you where she started and where she is now, and this is a story of success and it’s inspired many students in the past to change careers, drastically, and be successful wherever they are. So bloom wherever you are. So what is your major? (Ms. McIntyre). My major was English literature with an emphasis in journalism.

(Dr. Wahby). Okay, so you speak English.

(Ms. McIntyre). And then I got out of school and I was doing marketing for architecture firms, or for an architecture firm. And I decided I wanted to write more, so I went and worked for “Roads and Bridges” magazine. And then I worked for the “Concrete Producer” magazine. And then I worked for the Portland Cement Association. And now I work for PCI.