TURNER INDUSTRIES COM PA N Y M AG A ZIN E
EDITORS
Jason Broha, Marie Crespo, Lindsey Guidry, Terry Kenney, Carissa Villarreal, Corinne Welborn, and Andrew White
WRITERS & CONTRIBUTORS
Matthew Aucoin, Billy Chandler, Julie Conrad, Kent Dartez, Walter Fleming, Philip Grabert, Kyle Jackson, Kara Landry, Christopher Lossett, Frederick Manchack, Glenn Massey, Kash McMahon, Raymond Neck, Presley Newman, Alexander Ourso, Larry Richard, Stephanie Ross, Chris Sciambra, James Smith, James Tate, Gregory Thibodeaux, and Carla Thompson
EDITOR’S NOTE This issue’s cover story shines a spotlight on the Specialty Services Division (SSD), made up of highly skilled Turner experts who always answer the call. SSD started more than 25 years ago with specialized welding crews. Every time a client asked, “Can Turner handle this too?” the answer was yes. Today, environmental and civil, NDE and inspection, rope access, industrial specialty services, specialized welding, and E&I all work together as one division. Thanks to every Turner employee for the hard work and dedication you bring to the job every day. As the weather cools down and turnaround season heats up, please stay safe!
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Jason Broha
GRAPHIC DESIGN
MEET THE TEAM
Scott Greci and Katie Chemin
IN THIS ISSUE Safety First Safety Milestones Hard Hat Sticker Safety Recognition Program
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Safe + Sound Week
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Cover Story: Answering the Call
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Employee Profile: Blayne Trahan
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College Program
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TEAM Turner Workforce Development News & Notes United Way About Turner
KATIE CHEMIN
MARIE CRESPO
SCOTT GRECI
LINDSEY GUIDRY
TERRY KENNEY
CARISSA VILLARREAL
CORINNE WELBORN
ANDREW WHITE
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Top-Job JSA Award Winners Projects & Services
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Safety First The Latest & Greatest Safety Updates From Around the Company
“Great Catch” During Dow LHC-3 Turnaround
Matt Stephens, right, was recognized by Dow Louisiana Operations during the recent LHC-3 turnaround.
Plaquemine, La. — Turner Industries’ Matt Stephens was recognized by Dow Louisiana Operations for a “great catch” during the 2026 LHC-3 turnaround. A pressure safety valve that had been removed from service two years earlier and labeled as demoed was accidentally reinstalled after the line blind valves were pulled. Stephens caught the error during his post-installation inspection and raised the concern with engineering, allowing the issue to be corrected before the equipment returned to service.
Foreman’s Idea Helps Simplify Sewer Lift Project Plaquemine, La. — Willie Hill, a foreman in the EOP unit at Dow LAO, was recognized for his ingenuity on an upcoming sewer lift cover replacement project. The original scope called for rerouting discharge piping with eight 4-inch welds and the purchase of costly fittings. Hill determined the piping could stay in its original location, simplifying the job to a single weld. The change eliminated unnecessary material costs and significantly reduced the manpower and turnover time required, and Hill was recognized for contributing to the client’s operational efficiency and continuous improvement.
Colorado Team Marks First Year On Site Denver, Colo. — The Turner Industries team in Colorado recently celebrated its one-year anniversary on site. Since mobilizing in May 2025, the team has worked 604,570 hours with zero recordables across maintenance, SWS, SIPA, industrial cleaning and tank services.
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Turner Crew’s Quick Thinking Keeps Everyone Safe Baton Rouge, La. — When Turner Industries Foreman Nickolas Negrotto noticed a chemical release from a nearby unit drifting toward the break room, he didn’t hesitate. He hurried to the building to alert his filter press crew, and together Negrotto, Cruz Margiotta-Wheeler, Daniel Warren and Shannon Hollins went to work, sealing the building. The crew sheltered in place until the plant’s emergency response team escorted them out.
Heavy Equipment Crew Recognized at Dow St. Charles Hahnville, La. — Fourteen operators on the Turner Industries heavy equipment crew at Dow St. Charles logged more than 9,200 hours this year supporting maintenance and turnaround projects. Alongside that workload, the crew managed fleet crane upkeep, conducted sitewide rigging inspections, and maintained consistent participation in the site’s stop-work program.
Kudos to YOU! Angela Davis Awarded for Leadership on Eastman PCMS Program Pace, Fla. — The Eastman Chemical asset integrity team recently recognized Angela Davis, Plant Condition Management Software (PCMS) program specialist and manager, for her leadership and dedication to the program. Davis helps develop and maintain the PCMS program in alignment with business priorities, connecting people across functions and keeping progress moving on key Eastman initiatives.
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CELEBRATING SAFETY! Here are a few Turner Industries jobsites that recently celebrated OSHA recordable-free safety milestones.
Venture Global - Port Sulphur, Louisiana - One Year
Dow St. Charles - Hahnville, Louisiana - Two Years
Shell Deer Park - Deer Park, Texas - Three Years
Shell Lubricants - Galena Park, Texas - Four Years 6 FALL 2 0 2 6
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Honeywell UOP - Baton Rouge, Louisiana - Six Years
Westlake - Deer Park, Texas - 19 Years
Congratulations to Our 2025 OSHA VPP Star of Excellence Sites Ascend Performance
OxyVinyls Battleground
OxyVinyls PVC
Alvin, TX
La Porte, TX
Pasadena, TX
Dow St. Charles
OxyVinyls PVC/Caustic
Rubicon LLC
Hahnville, LA
Deer Park, TX
Geismar, LA
ExxonMobil
OxyVinyls VCM
Syngenta Crop
Baton Rouge, LA
Deer Park, TX & La Porte, TX
Saint Gabriel, LA
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Hard Hat Sticker Safety Recognition Program The hard hat sticker program rewards and recognizes employees across the country for enforcing safe work environments. We would like to take this opportunity to highlight achievements of employees who have gone above and beyond to protect themselves and their colleagues. Here are the top picks for this quarter.
TOP PICKS OF THE QUARTER BRIGHT IDEA
GOOD CATCH
Chad Fitzgerald: Dow SCO – Taft, LA While closing a water tank manway, Chad Fitzgerald and his crew realized the wrong gasket was about to be installed and immediately paused the job. They notified operations and located the correct gasket. After that, they resumed work and finished safely.
Ruben Perez: OxyChem Ethylene – Ingleside, TX During a training session, Ruben Perez spoke up to ask critical questions. His observation prompted a site-wide investigation, leading to safety procedure revisions during the following site meeting.
JSA+ Angel Navarro: BP – Whiting, IN (TIM) During a LOTO walkdown for a valve replacement, Angel and his crew used their JSA to catch an improper isolation where a valve still had an associated lock. The crew stopped the job to correct the LOTO certificate and thoroughly documented all site hazards and practical controls to execute the job safely.
MVP Clay Bowen: Eastman Chemical – Kingsport, TN Clay helped guide a fellow worker step-by-step through a proper line break procedure. His demonstration helped reinforce safe work habits and build a stronger safety culture on site. 8 FALL 2 0 2 6
MVP Micah Frederick, Conley Moring, Fabian Gonzales Flores: OxyChem – Ingleside, TX When third-party contractors were exposed to caustic from a pipe rack leak, Millwrights Micah and Conley guided them to a safety shower, alerted safety via radio, and barricaded the area. Safety Tech Fabian responded to the radio call and coordinated medical evaluations for everyone involved once field decontamination was complete.
STOP WORK Steve Badeaux: Dow SCO – Taft, LA During a crane lift, Steve recognized that proper hand signals were not being used and immediately called a stop work. He helped the team get back on the same page and resume the job safely. T U R N E R I N D U S T R I E S Company Magazine
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR Q3 AWARD WINNERS
TOP-JOB JSA Phillips 66 Sweeny, Texas LOB: Rope Access SUPERINTENDENT: Eric O’Neal FOREMAN: Erick Ayala CREW: Jeremy Polk, Jim Cantu Jr., and Juventino Franco
Dow Chemical SCO Hahnville, Louisiana LOB: Maintenance SUPERINTENDENT: Philip Grabert SUPERVISOR: Keith Ledet FOREMAN: Christopher Chirino CREW: Jason Hebert, Dwight Hebert, Sidney Bienemy, and David Guidry
Lilly Lebanon, Indiana LOB: Construction SUPERINTENDENT: Benigno Elicerio SUPERVISOR: José Millan FOREMAN: Joseph Miles CREW: Kanyin Soria and Anthony Cooper
BP Whiting Refinery Whiting, Indiana (TIM) LOB: Maintenance SUPERINTENDENT: Brian Peters FOREMAN: Angel Navarro CREW: Amado Flores, Whitney Wardlow, Zachary Vukasovic, and Dylan Hughes
F OR MOR E INF OR M AT ION Email HSE Manager Sandra Hilbun at shilbun@turner-industries.com The Turner Top-Job JSA Recognition Program acknowledges outstanding individual and team efforts in communicating hazard awareness and control through the job safety analysis (JSA) process.
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OSHA’S SAFE + SOUND WEEK Turner Industries proudly participated in OSHA’s annual Safe + Sound Week. Our sites across the nation actively engaged in daily safety discussions, focusing on various topics to reinforce a culture of prevention and employee well-being.
Shell - Deer Park, Texas
Flint Hills Resources - Corpus Christi, Texas
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OxyChem - Pasadena, Texas
Roehm America - Bay City, Texas
Dow - Plaquemine, Louisiana
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Projects & Services
What It Takes to Get the Job Done Right
INDUSTRY AWARDS & RECOGNITION ENR Texas & Louisiana’s 2026 Contractor of the Year Turner Industries has been named ENR Texas & Louisiana’s 2026 Contractor of the Year. The annual award recognizes the region’s top industrial contractor, judged on safety performance, project execution, and overall business strength. ENR cited Turner’s expanding work across traditional industrial markets and emerging sectors, along with the company’s safety record.
ABC Greater Houston Excellence in Construction Award Turner Industries earned an Excellence in Construction Award for its work on the PEMEX Deer Park Refinery’s Big Block Turnaround, a project that put more than 400 Turner personnel on site at peak and logged more than 128,000 safe work hours.
GBRIA Workforce Development Awards Turner Industries was recognized at the 2026 GBRIA Workforce Development Awards, an event honoring companies in the region for their best practices in recruitment, training, career path, education, and retention. Turner Industries received an excellence award in the general construction and maintenance category and an honorary award for best retention program. Turner Specialty Services also earned an excellence award in the specialty trades category and an honorary award for best practices.
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Phase 2 Complete at Skyfall’s Agricultural Pilot Plant At a 30-acre site in Geismar, Louisiana, Skyfall Biologicals is proving out an all-natural compound designed to keep stored potatoes dormant and extend their shelf life. Turning that science into a working pilot plant called for precise, field-driven construction, and Skyfall turned to Turner Industries’ capital projects group to deliver it. Turner’s capital projects group completed Phase 1 a year earlier, installing the plant’s first modular unit. Phase 2 placed a second unit of similar size inside a 60-foot by 120-foot pre-engineered metal building already occupied by the first. Working from 3D Navisworks models and the operational Phase 1 skid, Turner superintendents mapped out execution strategies
before the module arrived from St. Louis. Crews handled civil, piping and mechanical, rigging, scaffolding, painting, insulation and electrical work, frequently redirecting lines to fit operational needs. Turner’s Equipment, Rigging & Specialized Transportation Division hauled the two-piece module in and stacked it inside the building. The Geismar fabrication shop produced carbon and stainless steel piping as designs were issued. The original scope finished two weeks ahead of schedule with zero weld rejections and a flawless startup. Skyfall then added work packages that kept Turner’s capital projects group on site for eight months in all, and Skyfall is now planning a fullscale facility next door.
Skyfall's all-natural compound keeps stored potatoes dormant longer.
Turner Industries crews installed a second modular unit inside the pilot plant building at Skyfall Biologicals' Geismar, Louisiana, site.
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PROJECTS & SERVICES
360 Fin Fans Replaced at Cheniere Corpus Christi Liquefaction Facility Turner Industries replaced 360 fin fans across three LNG trains at Cheniere Energy’s Corpus Christi Liquefaction facility while the plant remained in full operation. The 15-foot-diameter fans extract heat during the LNG process. Turner installed new Tuf-Lite IV blades, developed by Hudson Products, a Chart Industries company, in collaboration with Cheniere to improve plant efficiency and wind-load resilience. Crews pre-assembled and pre-pitched blade assemblies on the ground during the day, then lowered them into place at night when temperatures were cooler. A custom jig template standardized the pitch across all 360 installations. The team averaged three to six fans per day and finished with zero recordable incidents across 62,579 work hours.
Fan blade assemblies were staged below the fin fan deck before being lifted into place.
A newly installed Tuf-Lite IV fan assembly. Turner Industries replaced 360 fin fans at Cheniere Energy’s Corpus Christi Liquefaction facility.
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SECTOR SPOTLIGHT Upgraded Pipe Bays for Evolving Industries Turner Industries has upgraded 85,000 square feet of specialized footprint across four pipe fabrication bays in Port Allen, Louisiana, to meet the evolving demands of energy, tech, and heavy industry. At the South Yard, the upgraded power bay is built to handle large OD and heavy-wall piping for traditional and nuclear power projects, while the neighboring alloy bay provides specialty metals fabrication for oil and gas, power, and chemical applications. The North Yard has added a stand-alone power bay configurable for pharmaceutical hygienic piping and data center liquid cooling systems, alongside a bend bay designed for segregated high-alloy overflow or dedicated nuclear power plant fabrication. Together, these modernized spaces ensure precision, segregation, and scalable output for our clients’ most complex piping needs.
Power Bay North Yard - 20,000 Sq. Ft.
Bend Bay North Yard - 20,000 Sq. Ft.
Stand-alone fabrication bay that can be configured to support hygienic piping for pharmaceutical plants and liquid cooling systems for data centers.
Stand-alone fabrication bay that can be configured to support overflow fabrication for segregated highalloy projects or nuclear power plant fabrication.
Power Bay South Yard - 25,000 Sq. Ft.
Alloy Bay South Yard - 20,000 Sq. Ft.
Large OD and heavy-wall piping for traditional and nuclear power plant projects.
Bright alloy fabrication for O&G, power, and chemical projects.
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RUNNING STRONG: TURNER INDUSTRIAL MAINTENANCE NEWS Welcome Aboard! We are happy to welcome aboard 50 new members of the Turner Industrial Maintenance team. This group performs electrical, mechanical and HVAC services at the Cargill facilities in Hammond, Indiana and Chicago, Illinois.
BP Safety Celebration Over 300 Turner Industrial Maintenance team members gathered at the BP facility in Whiting, Indiana, for a safety celebration to wrap up Safety Week 2026. The event celebrated 375,000 safe work hours logged since TIM took over maintenance operations at the site. As part of the event, site leadership recognized more than 25 craft workers for their outstanding Job Safety Analyses and uses of “Stop Work” authority. To show appreciation for the crew’s relentless focus on keeping one another safe, lunch was provided for the entire site’s workforce to cap off a successful week.
Cooking for a Cause In the wake of several devastating tornadoes that tore through Indiana this summer, the team at Turner Industrial Maintenance stepped up for their neighbors. Swapping hard hats for serving spoons, employees volunteered their time to fire up the grills, prepare hot meals, and distribute food directly to nearly 2,000 residents and first responders working through the aftermath.
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Driven by client demand, Turner Industries’ Specialty Services Division didn’t just grow. It evolved. What started as quick answers to tough requests became the essential services the industry depends on today.
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WHAT EXPERIENCE MAKES POSSIBLE From a bird’s-eye view, the hard hats moving through a working facility can look aligned. On the ground, it’s often anything but. One company moves the dirt. Another runs inspections. Another handles rope access. Another pulls the bundles and cleans them. Another makes the welds. Another covers electrical and instrumentation. Each one arrives with its own processes, its own schedule, and its own safety program. Hard hats colliding into chaos. Turner Industries formed its Specialty Services Division (SSD) to turn that misalignment into a single coordinated solution provider. The client gets one schedule, one standard, and one team that delivers predictable outcomes. The SSD model started with specialized welding services (SWS) more than 25 years ago. Turner built its SWS group around those critical moments: a furnace goes down unexpectedly or a turnaround window shrinks by days. Clients learned SWS would answer these calls, and SWS earned their trust one event at a time. Everything after SWS grew from the same idea. When every minute counted, clients began leaning on Turner for work connected to the welding services scope. Could Turner inspect what needed work? Access it safely and quickly? Handle the cleaning that had to come first, or the E&I work on the front end and back end? Clear and perform the site prep where the next unit would be built? Turner answered each question by building turnkey specialty groups. Today those groups operate as one division, still answering the call.
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EVERY SPECIALTY UNDER ONE DIVISION
Across the division, the story is one of expertise and evolution. Each group has grown from its original specialty into something that earns its place by what it makes possible for the rest of the scope.
ENVIRONMENTAL AND CIVIL The environmental and civil group handles site preparation at project locations and supports other scopes of work — from groundbreaking through commissioning, as well as day-to-day operations.
THE GROUND EVERYTHING STARTS ON Site preparation, foundations, and access roads come before any other group mobilizes, which is what lets the division carry a project from groundbreaking through commissioning. The group also runs scopes that stand entirely apart from the unit, including landfill cell construction, capping, and closure, along with remediation, dredging, and demolition. A client with a landfill, a pond, or a contaminated area is working with the same contractor handling the process side.
NDE AND INSPECTION The NDE and inspection group tells clients what condition their assets are in — findings that drive much of the work that follows, from continued condition monitoring to downstream repair scopes. The group fields more than 500 technicians and certified inspectors credentialed through ASNT and ASNT Level III, API 510, 570, and 653, AWS/CWI, and AMPP.
STARTING POINT OF THE SCOPE Inspection helps define the work. A corrosion map or a thickness reading determines what gets repaired, what can run another cycle, and even the scale of the event. When inspection belongs to a different company than the crews doing the repairs, findings arrive as a report, and the client translates it into scope. Inside SSD, a finding becomes a work package in real time while the crews are still on site.
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ONE GOAL IN MIND The NDE and inspection group invests in advanced drones, robotics and automated scanners to help clients decide what to repair, what to keep running and when — saving time and money in the process.
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ROPE ACCESS Turner’s rope access group is one of the largest and most experienced on the Gulf Coast, and its technicians are certified craftspeople.
ONE CREW, MANY CRAFTS
FROM ACCESS TO DELIVERY
Rope access puts any craft at height: inspection, welding, insulation, whatever the work calls for, reached the same way, by the same technician if needed. Work starts the day it arrives, not after conventional scaffolding or platform access gets built. It’s a versatile, crosstrained crew doing the work of a much larger one.
Rope access began as a way to reach difficult locations and inspect them. Cross-training skilled craftspeople as rope access technicians turned it into something more — a way to put craft labor anywhere on a structure and complete a full range of scopes for clients.
INDUSTRIAL SPECIALTY SERVICES Industrial specialty services handle the work that sits between pulling a piece of equipment and repairing it. Work that once put technicians in hazardous conditions is now automated, with hands-free equipment keeping crews out of harm’s way. The group operates across four areas: industrial cleaning, specialized mechanical services, tower and vessel services, and loadout and warehouse logistics.
CLOSING THE GAPS Exchanger work runs in these steps: isolate the equipment, pull the components and bundle, clean it, reassemble it, and pull blinds. This group performs all of them. When a scope is split across multiple contractors, the gaps between them become schedule risk, and conflicting scope priorities add up quickly. Keeping all these steps inside one group closes those gaps. The cleaning component was once a manual, high-pressure job that put technicians in the line of fire. Automated systems now do that work instead, which clears personnel out of highhazard zones and lets cleaning run alongside the other groups instead of waiting behind them. F A L L 2 0 2 6 21
SPECIALIZED WELDING SERVICES When the welding is code or schedule critical and startup cannot slip, SWS answers the call. SWS fields more than 2,000 craft professionals across the United States, backed by 25-plus years of shutdown, turnaround, and outage work. The group plans the work, staffs it, and answers for the schedule it commits to.
ON THE CRITICAL PATH Every group ahead of SWS in the sequence leads here. Equipment is opened and cleaned, inspection finds the defects, rope access reaches them, and SWS makes the repairs and mitigates the scope and risk. When those steps belong to different companies, each handoff has to be scheduled, staged, and agreed on. Inside one division, the sequence gets planned once and owned by one team. SWS sits on the project’s critical path and is able to perform all tasks with the end in mind.
ELECTRICAL AND INSTRUMENTATION SSD’s E&I group builds and maintains the power and control systems a facility runs on. E&I works across three major areas: electrical, instrumentation, and control systems. Within SSD, the E&I offerings span maintenance, turnarounds, shutdowns, outages, capital projects, and commissioning events.
START-UP DATE DRIVER A unit restarts when its instruments read correctly and its loops check out, which puts E&I at the start and end of every critical path. For years that meant E&I inherited whatever the schedule had left, absorbing delays the mechanical work created upstream. Planned inside the division, E&I’s slot gets set at the same time as everyone else’s, so the start-up date is a plan instead of a guess.
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SSD IN THE FIELD Multi-Group Turnaround, Deer Park, Texas Turner Industries recently delivered turnaround services at a Deer Park refinery, a project that put the Specialty Services Division’s full range on display across multiple craft disciplines. It concluded with the two metrics that matter most: zero injuries and on-time completion. In one area of the facility, SWS crews handled six columns, 21 vessels, 45 exchangers, and 341 pipe and valve jobs, adding another 68 pipe and valve jobs in a second area while supplying labor support across several units. At peak, more than 400 Turner personnel were on site, logging over 128,000 work hours. Scaffolding alone required 128 scaffolds built from more than 21,000 pieces of material, and insulation crews removed and installed over 4,300 linear feet of insulation.
Landfill Closure and Cell Construction, Alabama Turner’s environmental and civil group is running three concurrent landfill projects for a national waste services company in Alabama, a client relationship that dates to 2008. At the first site in Dora, Turner is completing a full closure. Turner has capped 14 acres, then 37, and is finishing a 40-acre section. At the second site in Collinsville, crews are executing a 16-acre partial closure and preparing to begin construction on a 7-acre cell. At the third, in Hillsboro, the current 7-acre cell marks the fourth project Turner has completed there since 2023. Precision grading is a significant part of why Turner is having success at these landfill projects. Dozers carry GPS machine control, and Turner builds the 3D surface models in house.
Rope Access, Gulf Coast A team of 22 multi-craft rope access technicians logged 100,000 work hours with zero recordables during construction of a new polyethylene manufacturing plant on the Gulf Coast. The scope covered fabrication and installation of new piping, structural installations, and cable tray installation and wire pulling. The team worked six days a week, 10 hours a day, for a year and a half. The project shows rope access operating well outside event work. For 18 consecutive months, these technicians performed primary construction craft work on a capital project, demonstrating the shift from an access method to a craft delivery model.
Nested Maintenance, Mobile, Alabama In June 2026, Turner placed nested crews — millwrights, mechanics, and E&I technicians who work on site full time rather than mobilizing for an event — at a manufacturing facility in Mobile, Alabama. It involved a new client and new territory, and it put E&I in the field alongside the rest of SSD from the start. Turner staffs the site from two directions, drawing craft from its Pensacola, Florida, and Baton Rouge offices. The scope has since widened past the nested crews to capital pipefitting and welding from SWS, additional millwright support, and inspection services — four SSD groups at a facility where Turner had not worked a year earlier. F A L L 2 0 2 6 23
THE PEOPLE WHO ANSWER THE CALL Specialty Services Division Employee Spotlights Kyle Williams Kyle Williams started at Turner two weeks after his 18th birthday as a boilermaker helper, worked through the trades as a journeyman boilermaker and pipefitter, and moved into management. Twenty-six years later, he is director of operations for the Specialty Services Division in Pensacola, Florida, and he recently completed an executive MBA. The division he helps run might be driving sheet piles from a barge, working an around-the-clock turnaround, fabricating heavy-wall aluminum vessels, and placing precision millwrights at a hydroelectric dam on the same day. That range still surprises people. One client did not believe Turner had a drone with ultrasonic testing capability until it showed up. “Write your goals down, put your head down, and you can build that entire future right here within the walls of Turner Industries.”
Nicky Villar Nicky Villar has spent four decades watching craftspeople he helped bring on advance into management. He is now a vice president for Specialized Welding Services, and he points to workforce retention as the difference clients feel. Because the group supports maintenance and construction across many sites year-round, it keeps its experienced hands through slow seasons instead of rebuilding crews when work picks back up. “At the end of every job, my greatest goal is to ensure every employee returns home safely to their loved ones. The work we accomplish is important, but our people and their families will always come first.”
Carmen Chauvin Carmen Chauvin’s decade-long journey at SWS is a testament to how initiative and a drive for efficiency can transform a career. What began as a temporary position as a bilingual translator evolved into an impressive nearly 10-year tenure as a key cost engineer, proving that with adaptability and determination, you can achieve even the most challenging goals. Never content with the status quo, Carmen capitalized on the downtime of 2020 by teaching herself Power BI, using her new skills to build dynamic reports that optimized financial cost and revenue tracking while streamlining both her workload and her teammates’ processes. Her proactive mindset and deep understanding of SWS’s operations mirror her core philosophy: “You can do what you want, but if you learn the business and think outside the box, you can do anything here.”
Kenny Hebert Jr. Kenny Hebert Jr. started on the Turner IT helpdesk in 2000 and spent 17 years in that department, serving as the E1 job cost analyst for the operations side of the business. He carried that operations fluency into project controls, where he now supervises cost control for the Specialty Services Division in his twenty-sixth year with the company. “My job is to help other Turner employees do their jobs efficiently. When I hear from someone after working with them say, ‘Man, this has helped me so much, thank you!’ That’s when I get the most satisfaction.”
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EMPLOYEE PROFILE
BLAYNE TRAHAN Project Manager — Construction Division Blayne Trahan started as a field engineer, where the work required him to learn construction from every angle. That foundation carried him into project management and across 12 states. Over the years, his path kept crossing with Turner crews, and he liked what he saw in the work and the people. When the opportunity to join the company came in November 2024, he took it. Today he is a project manager in Turner’s Western construction division, guiding jobs from planning through completion.
A Quick Q & A with Blayne What are your main job responsibilities?
I manage multiple projects from planning and execution through completion. That means leading project teams, coordinating with customers and field operations, managing budgets and schedules, and addressing risks and changes as they come up.
What do you find most satisfying about your job?
Solving problems, building relationships, and helping people succeed. Construction changes constantly, and I enjoy working through challenges with a team to find the solution that moves a project forward. The most rewarding part is seeing people around me grow and take on more responsibility. When the team succeeds, the project succeeds.
What do you enjoy doing outside of work?
Cooking, working on projects around the house, and spending time with friends. I have always enjoyed being around people, so whether it is a home project or getting together with friends, I like staying busy, learning something new, and meeting people.
What is something interesting about you that people might not know?
I have worked in 12 different states over the course of my career. Working in different regions and alongside different teams exposed me to a wide variety of projects and ways of approaching challenges, and it taught me to adapt quickly.
What is your motto or personal mantra?
“Lean into the tough jobs and carry them all the way home.” Growth comes from putting yourself in situations that challenge you. Some of the most valuable experiences in my career came from taking on something that seemed like more than I could handle.
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KICKSTARTING CAREERS Throughout the year, Turner Industries welcomes groups of students ready to swap textbooks for hands-on experience. This year’s fall class is prepared to work alongside our teams in the field, construction yards, and corporate offices to support real projects.
REAL-WORLD INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
Turner’s college program provides an immersive, hands-on experience where participants are fully integrated into the action from day one.
Meet Our Fall 2026 Cohort:
Micaela Casey Turnarounds
Jaxon Day Estimating
Danny Wallace
Ethan Schilling
Jackson Mangham
Justin Perault
Michael Coogan
Roman Moreau Samantha Romero
Turnarounds
Electrical & Instrumentation
Construction
Construction
Construction
Turnarounds
Jase Mitchell Turnarounds
Project Accounting
WELCOME ABOARD!
TEAM Turner
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Our Employee-Directed Volunteer Organization
Fish-O-Rama Port Neches, Texas — Turner Industries recently supported Indorama’s 2026 Fish-O-Rama, an annual fundraiser for local schools and community programs in Southeast Texas.
Supporting Student Success at The Emerge School
TIES Volunteers Aid Northwest Indiana Storm Recovery Gary, Ind. — Turner Industries Energy Services (TIES) employees volunteered in the relief effort after a massive storm system moved into Northwest Indiana and caused historic damage across the region. The TIES employees supported recovery work in the affected communities. Their efforts have helped the area rebuild. Turner recognizes the following volunteers for their service: Aaron Givens, Jesus Cordero Soto, Logan A. Toney, Andrew P. Vecchi, Michael A. Statom, Leo Hernandez Villanueva, Daniel Lee, Lawrence Ivory, Presley Newman, and Bradley Dingman.
Baton Rouge, La. — TEAM Turner members recently partnered with First Tuesday and volunteered at The Emerge School for Autism to help prepare for the upcoming school year. Volunteers spent time painting classrooms, cleaning tables and chairs, and pressure washing playgrounds and building exteriors. The team’s hard work helped support the school’s mission of providing a tuition-free education to children with autism spectrum disorder across Louisiana.
Capital Area United Way Honors Turner Industries at Annual Meeting Baton Rouge, La. — At the Capital Area United Way’s 2026 annual meeting and awards luncheon, Turner Industries was recognized with three honors: the “Special Events Recognition,” “Employee Campaign Coordinator of the Year,” and a spot among the “Top 10 Annual Campaigns.”
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TURNER INDUSTRIES SUPPORTS LOCAL STUDENTS WITH SCHOOL SUPPLY DRIVES Turner Industries employees recently donated school supplies to support local students across multiple regions. At Houston jobsites, Turner employees donated school supplies to the Pasadena Independent School District.
Turner employees in Baton Rouge recently collected school supplies for East Baton Rouge Parish students through the Stuff the Bus drive.
The Corpus Christi region collected school supplies for the United Way of the Coastal Bend’s annual Operation Supply Our Students (SOS) program, which supports local children in need. F A L L 2 0 2 6 29
Recruiting, Training & Retaining Our Most Important Asset–People
Fundamentals of Crew Leadership Baton Rouge, La., and DeLisle, Miss. — Turner Industries employees earned their NCCER Crew Leadership credential this summer through several Fundamentals of Crew Leadership sessions, held at locations including the Baton Rouge and Lake Charles personnel offices and the Chemours site in DeLisle, Mississippi. The two-day NCCER curriculum covers scheduling, workforce planning, field reporting, resource control, and conflict resolution, preparing frontline supervisors to apply those skills at Turner jobsites and on client work.
Freeport Kids Construction Camp
West Feliciana Data Center Job Fair
Freeport, Texas — Jessica Moreno, Western Division workforce development coordinator, volunteered at the Freeport Kids Construction Camp. Merit Shop Training Inc. hosted the camp at the ABC office in Freeport, introducing young participants to building techniques, safety awareness, and teamwork through hands-on woodworking projects. Moreno supervised campers as they used basic tools to complete their builds, offering mentorship and an early look at the skilled trades.
St. Francisville, La. — Turner’s workforce development team participated in a job fair sponsored by Hut 8 at West Feliciana High School, recruiting craft professionals to staff crews on the West Feliciana data center project. The event drew heavy attendance, and the team connected with dozens of qualified candidates across a range of crafts and experience levels. 30 FALL 2 0 2 6
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Beauregard Parish Agriculture Program Merryville, La. — Turner Industries has supported the Beauregard Parish agriculture program at Merryville High School for many years, donating tools and safety supplies and spending time with students to encourage careers in the industry. Many of these students attend ABC afterschool classes to learn a trade alongside their daily agriculture coursework, and several graduates from previous years now work for Turner.
BUILDING TOMORROW’S WORKFORCE Turner’s Workforce Development team maintained an active outreach schedule through summer 2026, connecting with students across the U.S. Empower 225 Baton Rouge, La. — The Turner team spoke with students and instructors at this community-based training initiative. Both groups were engaged and eager to learn more about Turner and the industrial workforce, and Turner expects to expand the partnership through future engagements.
ABC Bayou Graduation Destrehan, La. — Turner attended the ABC Bayou graduation at Destrehan High School, where graduates were recognized for their accomplishments.
City of Faith Job Fair
TCAT Elizabethton Elizabethton, Tenn. — Turner Industries’ Zack Littleton and Glenn Massey visited the Tennessee College of Applied Technology to discuss the industry and career opportunities at Turner.
Baton Rouge, La. — The Turner team met with candidates at the Goodwood Branch of the East Baton Rouge Parish Library, drawing interest from newcomers to the industrial field and from experienced craft professionals seeking work. F A L L 2 0 2 6 31
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Updates from Around the Company
Lifting the Arts Baton Rouge, La. — Turner Industries’ Equipment, Rigging and Specialized Transportation Division recently partnered with the Baton Rouge Gallery Center for Contemporary Art to move artwork for one of the largest exhibitions in the gallery’s history. To bring this historic 80-piece show to the area, Turner teamed up with the gallery, West Baton Rouge Museum, and Southern University to deliver and distribute the art across all three venues.
TEAM Turner Attends 2026 McNeese Cowboy Kickoff Lake Charles, La. — TEAM Turner recently supported the McNeese Athletic Foundation at the 2026 McNeese Cowboy Kickoff. The fundraising event brought together community members and sports fans for a live auction and presentations by guest speakers Ed Orgeron, former LSU head coach, and legendary McNeese Head Coach Matt Viator. All proceeds from the evening went directly toward supporting the McNeese Football program. Representing Turner Industries at the kickoff were team members Ben Bourgeois, Julie Conrad, Kash McMahon, and Seth Shirley.
LSU Construction Management Seminar Baton Rouge, La. — Turner Industries representatives recently spoke to graduate students at LSU’s Bert S. Turner Department of Construction Management. Chad Bradley, Kyle Jackson, and James Miller walked the group through the turnaround process and the realities of industrial construction. 32 FALL 2 0 2 6
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TURNER REPRESENTED AT LOCAL, STATE, AND NATIONAL ABC EVENTS Turner Industries took part in Associated Builders and Contractors events at every level this summer.
Women in Construction Luncheon Baton Rouge, La. — Michelle Hardy served as master of ceremonies and Leanne Maples joined the panel at this luncheon honoring women working in construction.
National Legislative Week Washington, D.C. — Turner representatives joined ABC members on Capitol Hill to meet with their representatives in Congress.
ABC Louisiana State Convention Point Clear, Ala. — Turner representatives joined chapter members from across Louisiana for a multi-day program of networking and educational sessions.
ABC of Louisiana Fishing Rodeo Grand Isle, La. — Turner Industries participated in the ABC of Louisiana Fishing Rodeo. The event featured deep-sea and inshore fishing competitions, networking, weigh-ins, and awards celebrations. F A L L 2 0 2 6 33
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ABOUT TURNER T
urner Industries provides a single solution in heavy industrial construction, maintenance, turnaround, pipe and module fabrication, equipment, rigging and specialized transportation,
and associated specialty services. Engineering News-Record Sourcebook ranks Turner as the nation’s top maintenance contractor in petroleum and one of the top contractors in Texas and Louisiana. The company, headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, employs 20,000+ and
works across the United States, with offices and facilities located in: Baton Rouge, LA
Sulphur, LA
Houston, TX
Geismar, LA
Pensacola, FL
Port Lavaca, TX
Hahnville, LA
Beaumont, TX
Salt Lake City, UT
New Iberia, LA
Corpus Christi, TX
Kingsport, TN
Port Allen, LA
Freeport, TX
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