Turner Industries Winter 2019 Magazine

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SENIOR EDITOR Tobie Craig

EDITORS Jason Broha, Marie Crespo and Corinne Bergeron (pictured)

WRITERS & CONTRIBUTORS Jason Apodaca, Corrine Bergeron, Gary Blacketter, Lee Browning, Sherman Brown, Mike Bryant, Jason Broha, Tobie Craig, Charles Courtney, Marie Crespo, Dawn Csazar, Ricky Diggs, Phil Gauthreaux, Russel Gauthreaux, Bryan Gerace, Charles Gilbert, Quinn Guidry, Brandon Joslin, Rodney Landry, Joey McWilliams, Connie Paxton, Keith Myers, Mike Phelps, Sean Reynolds, Lydale Roberts, Amy Rouse, Joð Smashey, Carla Thompson, Lance Wiebeck

PHOTOGRAPHER Marie Crespo

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS

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op quiz – how do you get 22,000+ qualified people to work at over 400 jobsites

across the country in dozens of soft and hard craft positions? There is no magic solution or shortcut here. Recruiting and onboarding to meet Turner’s client demand for quality craft employees only happen as a result of the non-stop efforts by our group of dedicated personnel employees. This issue highlights these hiring heroes, the “people behind the people.” We

interview those in charge, take a tour of our “one stop” hiring shop and onboarding process and meet a sample of the patchwork of professionals who find and send our people to work.

CREATIVE DIRECTOR Jason Broha

Enjoy.

GRAPHIC DESIGNER Scott Greci, Mindworx Marketing

IN THIS ISSUE ON THE COVER

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THE FUTURE OF CORROSION TESTING IS HERE

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‘SKY HIGH’ MAINTENANCE CONCEPT

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IMPROVED TECHNOLOGY TRACKS TURNAROUND SUCCESS

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Jason Broha & Marie Crespo

4 SAFETY FIRST 6 ABC EXCELLENCE IN

CONSTRUCTION AWARDS

7 PROJECTS & SERVICES 9 ‘20 ELEPHANTS ON THE ROAD’ 12 RECRUITING 13 Q & A WITH RUSSELL GAUTHREAUX & QUINN GUIDRY

14 RECRUITERS - THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE PEOPLE

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BITS & BYTES WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT TEAM TURNER™ CHRISTMAS EFFORTS NEWS & NOTES ABOUT US

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Safety First

THE LATEST & GREATEST SAFETY UPDATES FROM AROUND THE COMPANY

2018 Oxea Safety Day Bay City, Texas – Turner recently participated in the 2018 Oxea Safety Day, where we cooked pastalaya for everyone working at the Oxea facility.

During the day, vendors and community partners held safety demonstrations. The plant’s fire and rescue team showed off their equipment, and the local EMS team brought out their medivac helicopter.

2018 Safety Lookback – A Message from Mike Phelps

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s we look back on 2018, I am pleased to report our

17 Years OSHA Recordable Free Baton Rouge, La. – Turner employees at ExxonMobil’s BRPO facility worked 17 years and 1.5 million hours OSHA recordable free.

industry leading safety performance has continued.

This is an accomplishment indeed considering we worked more people and more workhours, in more geographic locations and with a greater diversity of work activities than ever in the history of our company.

This could have only been accomplished through the drive, commitment, determination and energy put forth by each Turner team member.

Through consistent application of our safety and health values and key initiatives such as our hand and finger injury elimination campaign, the implementation of a newly revised Lock-Tag-Verify process and the

One Million Hours OSHA Recordable Free Pasadena, Texas – Turner employees at the pipe fabrication facility recently celebrated one million hours worked OSHA recordable free.

expansion of observation and intervention techniques, we continue to perform each work activity in a safe and successful manner.

Mike Phelps Turner Vice President of Health and Safety

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Safety First Four Years OSHA Recordable Free Mont Belvieu, Texas – Turner employees at the Enterprise site under the leadership of Project Manager Joe Ron Waldrop and Safety Manager Donna Rasch celebrated four years OSHA recordable free on October 31, 2018. A luncheon was held to celebrate the accomplishment of the 227 employees currently on site.

Six Years and 1.5 Million Hours OSHA Recordable Free Houston, Texas – Turner maintenance employees at the TPC Houston site have worked six years and 1.5 million hours OSHA recordable free.

One Year OSHA Recordable Free One Year OSHA Recordable Free Sterlington, La. – Turner’s scaffolding, insulation, painting, and abatement (SIPA) group at ANGUS Chemical has achieved a oneyear incident and recordable-free jobsite, working over 36,000 hours.

SIPA Manager of the Monroe area Ray Smith said, “Our success is based on ‘safety comes first.’ All employees have a personal responsibility for their own safety, as well as the safety of their fellow workers. Everyone is expected to participate in the safety and health program.”

Convent, La. – Turner employees at the OxyChem facility have worked one year OSHA recordable free.

Kenneth Lampton Awarded Silver Coin by Sasol Lake Charles, La. – Turner employee Kenneth Lampton has been awarded a Silver Coin by Sasol for his efforts during a medical emergency experienced by one of his co-workers. Earlier this month, one of Kenneth’s co-workers suffered a seizure. Because Kenneth has a family member who also suffers from seizures, he immediately recognized what was happening. Thanks to Kenneth’s experience, he minimized the potential for injury by giving aid to the employee until the emergency response team arrived.

Kenneth was presented the Silver Coin by Sasol Mega Project Representative Lou Lacock and FTI representatives Tim Chetwynd and Alessandro Minardi.

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Shell Tiger AO4 Heavy Transport - recipient of two Excellence Awards.

Shell Tiger AO4 Mega Project - Excellence and Merit Awards recipient.

Olin Plaquemine 2018 Turnaround - Excellence and Merit Awards recipient.

Turner Industries presented with Diamond Level S.T.E.P. Award.

2018 ABC Excellence in Construction Awards Baton Rouge and Metairie, La. – Turner Industries has been recognized by both the ABC Pelican Chapter and the ABC Bayou Chapter for submissions to the 2018 Excellence in Construction Awards. At the ABC Bayou Chapter ceremony, Workforce Development Manager Wayne Tyson was recognized for his four years of service on the Board of Directors and Project Manager Carlos Guidry for his service as Pelican Liaison to the New Orleans/Bayou Board of Directors. Turner was also presented with a Diamond level S.T.E.P. Award.

Awards for Excellence in Construction were recognized as follows:

ABC Pelican Chapter

ABC Bayou Chapter

Shell Tiger AO4 Heavy Transport - EXCELLENCE

Shell Tiger AO4 Heavy Transport - EXCELLENCE

Shell Tiger AO4 Mega Project - MERIT

Shell Tiger AO4 Mega Project - EXCELLENCE

Olin Plaquemine 2018 Turnaround - MERIT

Olin Plaquemine 2018 Turnaround - EXCELLENCE

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Projects & Services

WHAT IT TAKES TO GET THE JOB DONE RIGHT

Turner Industries Divisions Band Together for Multi-Phase Project In the fall of 2018, Turner Industries was contracted by a client with a multi-phase project.

STEP 1 Pull multiple vessels and modules with associated piping from their Southeast Texas facility.

STEP 2 Transport the vessels, modules and associated piping to Turner’s 415 modular yard in Port Allen, Louisiana.

STEP 3 Refurbish all the items STEP 4 Deliver the refurbished items to another facility in South Louisiana.

CONSTRUCTION PROJECT MANAGER: JOEY MCWILLIAMS

CONSTRUCTION SUPERVISOR: KENNY RAJEWICH

Turner’s Houston-area Construction Division, under the direction of Project Manager Joey McWilliams, got the project moving by bringing together all the necessary Turner divisions. Construction Supervisor Kenny Rajewich and Equipment Manager W.H. Berry worked together, preparing lift plans, and dismantling and staging all equipment at the Texas plant. From there, Specialized Transportation Manager Gary Blacketter took the lead, loading up the equipment and transporting it to Turner’s modular yard.

To date, all structural steel, equipment, piping, electrical and instrumentation has been inspected and Turner is currently performing all needed repairs. Turner Specialty Services (TSS) will perform all NonDestructive Examinations including UT,MT/VT hardness tests, and also perform PT and RT tests on the refurbished vessels. The equipment is scheduled to be completely refurbished in early March of 2019 and stored by Turner until the scheduled delivery date of May 31, 2019.

SPECIALIZED TRANSPORTATION MANAGER: GARY BLACKETTER

EQUIPMENT SUPERINTENDENT: W.H. BERRY

MODULAR YARD SUPERINTENDENT: RED FOGELMAN

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Projects & Services PROJECT QUICK FACTS: Large, Multi-Craft Turnaround Successfully Completed for ExxonMobil

12-Week Event 270,055 WORK HOURS

Turner Industries specialized welding services (SWS) and turnaround group recently planned, scheduled and executed a large, multi-craft turnaround for ExxonMobil. The event involved two different operating units at the Baton Rouge refinery.

“This event was a new challenge for our group as our group typically only provides welders, boilermakers and pipefitters. By adding Turner crane operators, advanced riggers, and fire and hole attendants, we have proven we can execute a turnkey event. Project Manager Kelly Bordelon was instrumental in making this a success,” said SWS Regional Manager Lee Browning.

The 12-week, round-the-clock turnaround was completed on time, on budget with zero OSHA recordables.

Shell K-3 Turnaround Turner Industries has wrapped up another successful turnaround at the Shell Geismar facility. The 19-day event added 160 additional employees who worked 35,000 hours OSHA recordable free. 190 work packages were planned and completed without any rework or schedule impacts, including work on 30 heat exchangers, 6 reactors, blind installations, and 6 critical lifts of internal reactor components and one reboiler. During the event, Turner was faced with a high percentage of equipment with heavy corrosion that had to be sent to an outside shop for repairs, but even with the additional work scope, the turnaround was completed four shifts ahead of schedule.

This was the first major turnaround under the leadership of new Turnaround Manager Matthew Bueche. “Matthew has worked his way up the ranks at Turner over that last couple of years, completing multiple training classes, including the much respected “Voice of Leadership” program. It is great to see all of his hard work and dedication pay off and result in such a great event,” said Site Manager Andy McKinney.

The turnaround crew was put together by utilizing craft employees and supervisors from other sites within the Shell Alliance making a solid team.

PROJECT MANAGER: Kelly Bordelon SUPERINTENDENTS: Robert (Rico) Ricouard, Mel Rabalais, Joð Huber, Mack Lemoine and Joe Bates SAFETY MANAGER: Eric Rhodus

PROJECT QUICK FACTS: EQUIPMENT WORKED ON:

DURATION:

19 Days

30 Heat Exchangers & 6 Reactors

ADDITIONAL EMPLOYEES ON SITE:

160

CRITICAL LIFTS:

WORKHOURS:

35,000

WORK PACKAGES

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WELDS:

200

WELDS REJECTED:

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TURNAROUND LEADERSHIP included Project Manager David Ducote, Site Manager Andy McKinney, Safety Manager Michael Gill, QC Manager Mike Jarreau, Project Superintendent Clayton French, Turnaround Manager Matthew Bueche, Piping Supervisor Joseph Glover and Mechanical Supervisor Gene Ferrier.

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‘20 ELEPHANTS ON THE ROAD’ PROJECT QUICK FACTS:

Turner Successfully Transports 128-Ton Tank Under the leadership of Project Manager John Adams, Turner Industries’ specialized transportation group has completed another colossal move. The transportation crew traveled through bayou towns and back roads, moving a 128-ton (the weight of 20 grown elephants) Bullet Tank from Cembell Industries in Montz, Louisiana to Dow Chemical Company’s Deer Park, Texas plant.

Turner transported the 128-ton tank using our Goldhofer THP with 24 axle lines pulled by a four axle Peterbilt Prime Mover with a 30,000-pound fifth wheel counterweight. The 385-mile-long journey took four and a half days and included two bridge crossings: The Gramercy Bridge over the Mississippi River and the Fred Hartman Bridge over the Houston Ship Channel.

The transportation crew completed the haul on schedule and incident-free. The crew members who made this possible are Superintendent Seth Babineaux, Heavy Haul Teamster Darrin Landry, Goldhofer Technician Melvin Sibley and Peterbilt Push Truck Teamster JD Henry.

BULLET 1 TANK

TOTAL WEIGHT:

560,000 Pounds TOTAL HEIGHT TOTAL WIDTH TOTAL LENGTH MILES TRAVELED

17' 7" 14' 8" 169' 10" 385

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It’s Not Magic – The Future of Corrosion Testing Is Here For many clients in the heavy industrial sector, corrosion is a fourletter word. The loss of wall thickness in piping systems due to configuration, product, pressure, temperature, and more, causes a loss of mechanical integrity leading to potential catastrophic failures, increased downtime and an overall decrease in the lifespan of the piping. The most obvious problem that exists today concerning corrosion is that, until now, there was no affordable and easily deployable solution to provide an accurate corrosion rate.

With an accurate rate, the predictability of necessary maintenance becomes possible, lowering the cost of ownership to our clients.

To combat and one day potentially eliminate, this problem, Turner Specialty Services (TSS) Inspection and NDE group has joined forces with Inductosense, a forward-thinking academic team

HOW IT WORKS: 1. Wireless, battery-free sensors are permanently installed to piping, pressure vessels, tanks and modular structures.

2. The WAND (Wireless and NonDestructive) hand-held reader, is passed over and magnetically coupled to the sensor.

3. Result is an A-scan reading and ultrasonic thickness measurement in a fraction of a second.

of engineers and industry experts. The group, based in the United Kingdom, is focused on innovating the predictive corrosion management and monitoring sector of mechanical integrity and reliability. Their vision is to enable digitization of nondestructive testing using a combination of permanently installed sensors, multiple data collection methods and software for remote analysis

Through the new technology and processes, the main goal is to lower the cost of ownership to clients by reducing unnecessary, and potentially hazardous inspections. Our hope is to move clients toward a more proactive approach to site maintenance. TSS believes the industry is ready to embrace the innovations and rethink how mechanical integrity and reliability inspections are viewed. If you are interested in learning more, contact Lance Weibeck at (225) 214-9142.

and workflow integration.

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Projects & Services NDE Rope Access Team Introduces ‘Sky High’ Maintenance Concept An industrial jobsite isn’t exactly the place you’d expect to see employees dangling in the air, hundreds of feet above the ground. For our nondestructive examination (NDE) rope access teams (part of Turner Specialty Services’ inspections and NDE group) aerial inspections are just another day on the job. The group’s latest challenge is eliminating the need for scaffolding on short-term, routine site maintenance.

High material cost, slower install time, and exposure to injury are all reasons the newly formed ‘non-NDE’ rope access team has an advantage compared to scaffolding. With the ability to leverage Turner Industries’ mechanical craftspeople and certified rope access training, the non-NDE team can implement a qualified crew in a week’s time. This creates an advantage that leaves competitors grounded.

Not Just a Concept, But A Success Story For the past several months a nonNDE rope access team has been hard at work at a facility of one of our largest alliance partners. In the initial evaluation process, Turner determined a verifiable cost savings of >$3MM in the first quarter of using a non-NDE rope access team. When the cost savings exceeded the expected amount, the client awarded the team additional work packages, meaning the team will be providing sky-high maintenance well into the future. For more information on this service contact Lance Weibeck at (225) 214-9142.

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It Takes the Best to Find the Best

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s a heavy industrial contractor, it’s easy to think of Turner Industries in terms of nuts and bolts.

But nothing could be further from the truth. It’s people who are the core of our business. Finding the skilled people our clients require defines our success. To meet that challenge, Turner must recruit, hire, advance and retain the best employees. So actually, we’re in the “people business.”

Finding the right people is challenging. Recruiters and personnel staff sometimes work seven days a week to be sure the right people are sent to the jobs. In 2018, Turner hit a company record highwater mark, employing 22,507 people in one week. Those employees went to nearly 400 worksites across the country, many of which have their own set of specific site requirements for drug screenings, safety orientations, and background checks. In total, Turner issued close to 40,000 W2 forms in 2018.

To access and track employee information and site requirements, Turner recruiters and personnel staff use

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CraftTrax®, our proprietary hiring and labor requisition system. This system can access records of over 400,000 past, current and potential employees along with their qualifications, certifications and safety orientation records and is critical to our ability to staff jobs large and small.

Additionally, our one-stop personnel offices can shorten time-to-field from weeks to days, and sometimes just hours.

Finally, the advancement of current employees by growing them to their fullest potential is a personal mission of Turner’s executive management team. Opportunities start with craft training at Associated Builders and Contractors and continue with access to industry-based certifications like NCCER that we can offer to all our employees, go on to leadership, safety and project management classes available through local and state grants. Programs have also been developed in-house, translating decades of knowledge into meaningful career paths, to ensure a continuous flow of talent and the future success of the company.

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To kickoff this issue’s cover story we sat down with Turner Industries’ Vice President of Personnel Russell Gauthreaux and Personnel Manager Quinn Guidry to discuss hiring and recruiting. Here is what they had to say.

You’ve both been with the company for a long time. How have you seen hiring and recruiting change over the years?

RG: Technology has been a game-changer.

When I joined the company in 1981 as personnel and safety manager we hired by word of mouth, or by placing ads in local papers. Today we use a combination of CraftTrax®, Turner’s proprietary hiring and labor requisition software, and ApplicantPro®, an online recruiting tool, to instantly push out hundreds of job opportunities via electronic notification systems and dozens of job-boards.

Talk to us more about CraftTrax how does it assist with recruiting and hiring?

RG: Because of Turner’s sustained growth over the past decades, CraftTrax was really born out of necessity. We staff hundreds of jobs each year, many of them simultaneously. CraftTrax allows us to track everything from an applicant’s drug screen to craft certifications in a pool of over 260,000 former employees.

QG: It has really become the backbone of our operation. It’s how our recruiters find the right people, how we keep track of certifications, and how we staff our jobs.

In 2017, we launched a new and improved paperless version making it possible for us to deliver great people to the jobsites faster, while satisfying contract provisions in a more efficient manner.

When it comes to hiring and onboarding, what is the Turner advantage?

QG: It comes down to efficiency and knowledge. We have some of the best staff in the industry. From recruiters, to processors,

medics and the workforce development team members—they are all first class. We took a hiring process that used to take weeks and shortened it to days, sometimes hours. That makes a positive difference to everyone— employees and clients.

our skilled labor force is retiring. A huge part of our job is ensuring the future workforce.

Our trend-setting workforce development team works across the country on industrywide labor solutions, current employee development, and upskill initiatives.

What are some of today’s biggest challenges your department faces?

What’s your thought on the future when it comes to hiring and recruiting?

RG: A particular challenge when it comes to processing is keeping up with client requirements. With over 20,000 employees at more than 400 different sites, keeping up can be overwhelming. Background check and drug screening requirements almost always differ. This is another example of the benefits of CraftTrax. It keeps this information readily available, aiding recruiters in the process of accurately meeting client requirements.

QG: According to Industrial Info Resources, plant spending in the United States was at a 10-year peak in 2018. At the same time our industry is growing, a large percentage of

QG: Technology will continue to accelerate and improve the process. I think in the future much of the hiring process will be done online without even having to physically visit one of our facilities.

RG: One thing is constant, we will always need people. The way we find them may change but, in the end, no matter how many contracts we sign, if we can’t staff our jobs with quality people we will not be able to continue to do business in this industry.

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What is the largest job you have staffed?

Following Hurricane Katrina, we had multiple large jobs that needed to be staffed quickly. During that time, we worked long hours and weekends locating employees to staff.

What interests do you have outside of the office?

I enjoy cooking and watching LSU Baseball.

At the end of the day, if we can’t staff our jobs, it doesn’t matter how many contracts we sign. The people below are part of the fabric that makes it possible for Turner to service our clients. They match skill sets with demand and in turn, help tens of thousands of employees provide for their families.

Julia Dixon Recruiter

SULPHUR, LOUISIANA Years with Turner Industries: 30

John Hubbard Recruiter

BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA

What do you enjoy most about your job? Meeting people and helping change the life of individuals by placing them on a job. I love representing Turner Industries. As a recruiter I’m the first contact an applicant has with the company. One of the first things you learn as a recruiter is to treat applicants as if they are customers. They are the ones who help pay our salary.

Years with Turner Industries: 30

What is the most in-demand skilled craft needed in your area? Welders, pipefitters and operators.

What is the most in-demand skill needed in your area? Welders.

What’s the largest number of people you’ve processed in one day? 150 people.

What’s something people should know before applying for work at Turner? Make sure you are properly qualified for the job you are applying for.

How has the new Sulphur personnel facility changed the way you are able to staff jobs in your area? The new facility provides much more space and equipment to process far more employees.

Having the Safety Council office and a fit test facility on site and a separate recruiter’s suite makes for an extremely efficient hiring process.

What’s the largest number of people you’ve processed in one day? 200, It was a busy day to say the least.

What’s a piece of career advice you’ve taken to heart? Always be polite to people looking for work. It could easily be you.

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What interests do you have outside of the office? Spending time with my family and spoiling my grandchildren.

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What is the most in-demand skilled craft needed in your area? Labors and hole/fire watchers.

What’s the largest number of people you’ve processed in one day? I’ve processed 60 people in one day.

What’s something people should know before applying for work at Turner? Turner is a great company to work for.

How does CraftTrax aid you in your job? It is a great tool.

It allows for faster and more accurate processing.

Juanita Ortiz

What interests do you have outside of the office? I enjoy spending time with family, traveling and watching movies.

Recruiter

PASADENA, TEXAS Years with Turner Industries: 4 What do you enjoy most about your job? Meeting new people is what I love most about my job.

What’s the largest number of people you’ve processed in one day? Although staffing a job is not a one-person process, the most I have processed in one day is around 75 people.

What is the most in-demand skilled craft needed in your area? Millwrights What’s a piece of career advice you’ve taken to heart?

Listen to what the other person has to say.

What interests do you have outside of the office?

Reading is a favorite pastime of mine.

Darren Smith Personnel Manager/Recruiter

PASADENA, TEXAS Year with Turner Industries: 13 What is the most in-demand skill needed in your area?

Millwrights amongst craftspeople, and project controls professionals amongst staff.

What’s the largest number of people you’ve processed in one day? Personally, 40 to 45 when it was just me and one other recruiter in Gonzales during a turnaround in 2008.

For the Houston office itself I believe the most people processed in one day is 95.

What’s a normal day like for you at the office?

Is there such a thing as a normal day?

Monica Forest Recruiter

BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA Years with Turner Industries: 11 What do you enjoy most about your job? I enjoy my co-workers and the people that I serve. I also enjoy helping people find jobs that match their skill set.

How does CraftTrax aid you in your job? CraftTrax is the single most useful tool I have at my disposal to perform my job. Much of what I do involves tracking and in CraftTrax I can see date and time stamps on any information that has moved through the system, it gives me a functional baseline to know if and when things get off track, so I can take appropriate action.

What is the largest job you have staffed?

The Marathon Garyville Major Expansion is the largest job I’ve ever been a part of. It peaked with just over 3,000 people working for Turner.

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Charlotte Rogers

Mike Ashford

Senior Recruiter

Recruiter

BEAUMONT, TEXAS

SULPHUR, LOUISIANA

Year with Turner Industries: 4

Years with Turner Industries: 22

What is the most in-demand skilled craft needed in your area? Pipefitters and fabricators.

What is the most in-demand skilled craft needed in your area? Combination welders and ironworkers.

What is a challenging aspect of your job? Locating qualified individuals to fill positions. Although, I do love a good challenge, especially when it is said to be next to impossible, that's when I dig my heels in. They have nicknamed me “the Bulldog.”

What’s something people should know before applying for work at Turner? Safety is our number one priority.

What’s something people should know before applying for work at Turner? Work hard, respect yourself and others, strive to learn, be honest and you could have unlimited possibilities.

What’s the largest number of people you’ve processed in one day? I have processed 60 people in a single day.

What is the largest job you have staffed? The largest job I have been a part of was the MOTIVA expansion project in Port Arthur, Texas. There were many late evenings making calls to fill daily requisitions, scheduling individuals for processing the next day, preparing paperwork for new employees and tracking their hiring process, but we got it done.

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What’s the largest number of people you’ve processed in one day? One time we processed and drug screened 167 people. It took us over fifteen hours.

How has the new Sulphur personnel facility changed the way you are able to staff jobs in your area?

The increased square footage along with in-house safety council and fit testing has created a more efficient hiring process allowing Turner to hire more people.

What is the largest job you have staffed? I would have to say the Citgo Turnaround of 1997. I was a medic then and everyone going to that job had to have a drug screen within 3 days of going out there, and we hired over 800 in a little over a week. All paperwork was done by hand at the time and we were testing all drug screens with machines, not like the drug-testing cards they use today. We worked from 6 a.m. until 8 or 9 at night.

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Donna Knight

Diane Sumrall

Recruiter

Personnel Supervisor/Recruiter

MOBILE, ALABAMA

CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS

Years with Turner Industries: 13

Years with Turner Industries: 3

What do you enjoy most about your job? I love putting people to work. Each employee you process leaves with a smile knowing they’ll be able to provide for their families.

What is the most in-demand skilled craft needed in your area? Pipefitters, combo welders and insulators.

What is the most in-demand skilled craft needed in your area? Scaffold builders and insulators.

How does CraftTrax aid you in your job? CraftTrax produces pre-printed hiring packages which save a lot of time. With CraftTrax I can research someone immediately when they arrive at personnel and know what job they are being requisitioned for and at what rate of pay.

I am also able to see site specific requirements by searching a job number.

What interests do you have outside of the office? My family and my church are important to me. I also enjoy spending time on the Alabama River fishing and tubing.

What is a challenging aspect of your job? It can be a challenge to fill “emergency jobs,” because of the short notice.

What’s a piece of career advice you’ve taken to heart?

Each person that walks into this office is an asset, whether they are just inquiring about a job or coming to process they should be treated with respect.

How does CraftTrax aid you in your job? CraftTrax is tailored specifically to Turner’s hiring system. It tracks where an applicant is at any given time during processing. It also has several ways to search the candidate pool by previous job, craft or even certifications and gives all the prerequisites required for each plant.

What interests do you have outside of the office?

I enjoy reading and going for walks.

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‘ONE-STOP SHOP’ FOR RECRUITING & ONBOARDING

Turner’s personnel offices in Baton Rouge and Lake Charles are state-of-the-art hiring and training facilities designed to train the workforce of tomorrow and help Turner employees get to the jobsite faster and more efficiently than ever. A third one-stop personnel office is currently being built in Pasadena, Texas. In 2018, over 85,000 people walked through the doors of our eight personnel facilities across the Gulf South and beyond. Let’s take a look inside.

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The reception area is command central. It’s here that the processors assess the visitors’ needs and send them in the right direction. Many candidates who visit here will be seeking craft positions but there will also be those seeking professional, technical and administrative positions.

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Candidates seeking a craft position will be sent to the recruiters’ wing where they will meet with a recruiter for their specific craft. If the recruiter determines that the individual is qualified for an open position, that person will be sent to the application processing area.

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Many of our facilities are updated with a paperless application process and touchscreen computers for easy processing.

Certain jobs also require candidates to pass a background check. In 2018, Turner ran over 10,000 background checks on employees per client requests.

All pre-employment physical, drug and fit testing is done by qualified medics with industrial health experience. Employees who have been on family and medical leave can also come here and be examined before returning to work. Last year, our medical departments performed close to 35,000 in-house drug screens and over 20,000 physicals.

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Some positions require employees to pass a craft test. In 2018, Turner craft tested 9,349 employees.

Once the individual passes the craft test and there is an open position, that candidate will then proceed to pre-employment medical testing. If the position requires NCCER assessments or certifications, Turner can administer those as well.

There is also a pulmonary and respiratory fitness test area. In 2018, the Baton Rouge personnel office performed over 16,000 fit tests.

Once the pre-employment medical screening is satisfied, it’s on to safety training.

Part of our one-stop shop benefit is the fact that employees can complete all of their OSHA and site-specific safety orientations

here. In 2018, the Baton Rouge and Lake Charles

personnel offices administered over 33,000 on-site safety council classes. This is also where the Turner company orientation is done.

Once all the necessary tests have been administered and passed, candidates will have a final meeting with their recruiter and be given job-specific information. And just like that, without ever having to leave the building, a hiring process that used to take days is completed in hours and the employee is ready for work.

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HOW WE USE TECHNOLOGY TO DRIVE CLIENT SUCCESS

Improved Turner Technology Tracks Turnaround Success During a late 2018 turnaround at one of Turner Industries’ customer’s plant-sites, the Turner project controls team introduced an improved technology. By utilizing intrinsically safe iPads in conjunction with our proprietary software, supervisors were able to update the turnaround’s progress in real-time. The software, previously only accessible via desktop computers, has a proven track record of providing a project’s physical percentage completed and productivity measurements.

By rewriting the software for tablet devices, supervision did not have to stop and visit the site office to give the planner their Progress Update, which allowed the updating to be more efficient and accurate.

The turnaround was a success, completed safely and ahead of schedule. The client was so impressed by the gains in project tracking that Turner was given the green light to use the tablets on a second turnaround.

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Bits & Bytes Digital Contract Approvals Get Work Going Faster Than Ever No matter the size and scope of work, all projects

contract with varying degrees of editability. Contract

begin with one common action – signing a contract.

recipients can access and complete the contract via

To meet client expectations for efficient, mobile and

desktop or mobile devices. Combined, this makes for

secure contract approvals, Turner Industries has implemented DocuSign®, the world’s #1 e-signature solution. The DocuSign process is designed for today’s digital world. When a contract is uploaded into DocuSign, the system’s ‘drag and drop’ interface easily allows the sender to call out the necessary

the efficient, mobile and secure process our clients demand today. The benefits are already apparent as Brittany Cubbage, Turner legal subcontract administrator points out. “Contract approvals used to take a few days to a week. With our new system in place

action items needed to complete the transaction.

it happens almost instantly. Our project managers

Once the contract is ready to send, ‘permissions’

and clients tell me how much they appreciate the

allow multiple project stakeholders to receive the

gained efficiencies and ease of use.”

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A contract is uploaded into the DocuSign system.

The contract is sent to the appropriate stakeholders. It can be securely accessed, edited and approved from desktop and mobile devices.

Once approved, a final copy is sent for records.

Contracts approval time is dramatically reduced, allowing work to start faster than ever.

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Workforce Development

RECRUITING, TRAINING & RETAINING OUR MOST IMPORTANT ASSET – PEOPLE

Education Service Center’s Career and Military Prep Student Day Paris, Texas – Turner Industries attended Region Eight Education Service Center’s (ESC) Career and Military Prep Student Day and shared information about available career opportunities such as: engineering, welding, fabrication, coating, quality control and clerical assistance.

The event was held at the Region Eight ESC headquarters and was attended by 640 students from surrounding high schools.

Carla Thompson Sits on Texas CTE Industry Panel Pasadena, Texas – Turner Workforce Development Manager Carla Thompson participated in an industry panel for the State of Texas, Region Four, Career and Technical Education conference. The panel shared their knowledge and expertise with career and technical education (CTE) instructors on how to better prepare high school students for construction jobs in the Houston, Texas region.

Build Your Future Baton Rouge, La. – Turner Industries took part in Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc. (ABC) Pelican Chapter’s 2018 Build Your Future event, educating students on career opportunities in the construction industry, including unmanned aerial vehicle inspections. Turner was one of 47 event participating partners that welcomed over 750 students.

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Craft Competition Baton Rouge, La. – ABC Pelican Chapter recently hosted their annual craft competition. Turner employees participated in the event, competing in the crafts of millwright, pipefitting, and welding. Turner employees placed in all three categories.

MILLWRIGHT 1st Place Michael Cothern WESTLAKE PLAQUEMINE

2nd Place Trevor Ballard DOW PLAQUEMINE

PIPEFITTING

3rd Place Michael Rogers

DOW PLAQUEMINE

WELDING

3rd Place Jonathan Smith EXXONMOBIL First place winner Michael Cothern will go on to compete at the National Craft Championships in Long Beach, CA in March 2019. CONGRATULATIONS!

ABC Gulf Coast Career Expo Freeport, Texas – ABC’s Gulf Coast Chapter held a

construction career expo for local high school students at Brazosport College. Olin and Turner employees supported the event by offering mock job interviews to students.

Over three hundred career and technical (CTE) high school students were in attendance.

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TEAM Turner

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OUR EMPLOYEE-DIRECTED VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATION

TEAM Turner Members Volunteer with Manna Givers Baton Rouge, La. –TEAM Turner members volunteered with Manna Givers serving an evening meal to guests at the Sweet Dreams Expansion Shelter. Manna Givers is a group of volunteers that provides evening meals to guests in the

TEAM Turner Helps Build Elementary School Computer Lab Decatur, Ala. –Turner employees at the Ascend site participated in building a computer lab for Tanner Elementary School.

St. Vincent de Paul shelters.

TEAM Turner Serves Chili at McNeese Homecoming

Turner Supports Buckner’s Children and Family Services

Lake Charles, La. –TEAM Turner members prepared

Beaumont, Texas – Turner Industries participated in the annual kick-off

and served approximately 150 pounds of chili at the

party for Chevron Phillips’ Charity Golf Tournament benefiting Buckner’s

McNeese State University Homecoming game. Over 700

Children and Family Services. For 48 years, Buckner’s Children's Village

people enjoyed chili.

has provided a “home” to hundreds of children, placed there by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, who have suffered abuse, neglect and/or abandonment by their parents or caregivers.

Pictured are Turner employees Kenny Bartoszek, “Chef” Gregory P. Thibodeaux, Wayne Gray (Retired), Tony Kantowicz, Greg Dorman and Sonny Maricle.

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Turner Takes Home First Place in Jambalaya Cookoff

Turner Takes Home First Place in Gumbo Cookoff

Plaquemine, La. – Turner employees took part in the

Beaumont, Texas – Turner Industries was a proud sponsor of the Girls

annual Dow United Way Jambalaya Cookoff, preparing the winning pot of jambalaya in the contractor division.

Haven Gumbo Cookoff. The fundraising event benefits Girls Haven, an organization which places girls 12 to 17 years of age in a shelter due to various family issues. All food was prepared on site and bought by patrons.

Turner took home first place in the poultry category for selling the most gumbo. Thank you to Turner Site Manager Shannon Trahan for sharing his family’s recipe for this event. It was quite a hit!

Pictured are Turner Superintendent, Joey Letulle and Power Unit Foreman, Chan Chambers along with Dow representative Tracy Burleigh.

TEAM Turner Membership Drives Baton Rouge, La. – TEAM Turner held membership drives at the Essen and Highlandia Offices. At the Essen office, 21 volunteers (many of them new) put together “Bags of Hope”— a bag with nonperishable food items given out by St. Vincent de Paul to people in need. Volunteers made 200 bags in just 15 minutes!

CASA for Kids Paris, Texas – Turner employee, Jesse Workman, fabricated a fire pit for donation to CASA for Kids as an auction item for their annual fundraiser.

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TEAM Turner™

CHRISTMAS EFFORTS

During the holidays, TEAM Turner members across the country took part in the season of giving. Here are a few examples of our employees’ generosity. Thank you all for donating your time and resources.

Baton Rouge, La. – TEAM Turner adopted two Volunteers of America (VOA) homes, 5 Life of a Single Mother members and 35 Angels from the local angel tree this year. Turner employees were given the opportunity to select an item to purchase as a gift to the families in need.

Pasadena, Texas – The Pasadena office shared the joy of Christmas by holding a sock, blanket and slipper drive for Retama Manor Nursing Home. They also participated in the Deer Park Fire Department’s annual toy drive which benefited local communities.

Decatur, Ala. – Turner Industries and Ascend employees participated in a Christmas parade, decorating a float to ride. Their float was awarded “Best Decorated.” The office also held a “Toys for Tots” event led by the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve benefiting those less fortunate in their community.

Convent, La. – Turner employees at the Occidental Chemical plant held a toy drive for children in their local community.

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TEAM Turner™ Freeport, Texas – The Turner team at Olin rode in Lake Jackson’s annual “Festival of Lights - Christmas Parade.” This popular event attracts families from Brazoria county and beyond.

Saraland, Ala. – Turner employees at Shell held a toy collection for children in need in their local community.

Paris, Texas – Through various fundraising efforts, Turner employees were able to raise enough to donate over $1,000.00 worth of toys to “Toys for Tots.” Turner employees also participated in the Downtown Paris Parade and took home first place in the industry division for the second year in a row.

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TEAM Turner™ 2018 Southeast Texas Cattle Baron’s Ball

Turner Participates in Julie Rogers’ “Gift of Life” 5K Color Run

Beaumont, Texas – Turner Industries

Beaumont, Texas – TEAM Turner members participated in the 2018 Julie Rogers Gift of

was proud to attend the 2018 Southeast Texas Cattle Baron’s Ball, benefiting the American Cancer Society. This year, the Cattle Baron’s Ball theme was Urban Cowboy - Stand by Me. Taking the stage were country music artists Mickey Gilley and Johnny Lee.

Life 5K Color Run. Julie Rogers’ “Gift of Life” Program was established in Beaumont, Texas, in 1994 by Regina Rogers as a tribute to her mother, Julie, a breast cancer survivor, who had a double mastectomy in 1988 and who died following complications from a stroke and heart attack in 1998. Originally dedicated to providing free mammograms for medically under served women, in the past twelve years, the organization’s services have multiplied, and the agency has grown into one of the largest cancer screening initiatives of its type in the state of Texas. In 2000, the Gift of Life broadened its breast cancer mission to include prostate cancer, offering free screenings and educational presentations for men. Since the organization’s inception, the “Gift of Life” has diagnosed nearly 275 medically under served Southeast Texas women and men with cancer and navigated them into treatment.

Pictured are Turner Business Development Team Member Jason Apodaca with wife Ginger.

Food Drive Freeport, Texas – Turner employees at Olin and the Turner Freeport Regional Office held a food drive benefiting the Brazosport Cares Food Pantry.

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Turner Employees Lend a Helping Hand Turner employees at Advansix assisted in renovating homes in the Kensington section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Working alongside Advansix employees the group was assigned one home to restore. The renovation included installing new flooring, kitchen, doors and making other repairs. Turner volunteers included Mike Phillips, Bill Krapf, and Italo (Sam) Gonzalez.

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News & Notes Constructech Vision Awards For the past 18 years, the Constructech Vision Awards have celebrated the achievements of construction companies that have leveraged technology in innovative ways to solve operational challenges. Turner Industries’ proprietary digitized take-off (estimating) system, WinTake® received the Constructech Vision award this year in the Industrial Category based on its advanced nature of the on-screen data entry and digital ISO viewer. Each winning company was selected on its ability to implement new solutions that address issues in productivity, maintenance, efficiency, security, data sharing, collaboration, and profitability.

Turner Donation Provides Scholarship Support to Folds of Honor Baton Rouge, La. – On display in the executive lobby at Turner Industries’ headquarters is a shadow box plaque containing two military challenge coins and a 20MM Gatlin Gun Bullet, used on an F-16 fighter aircraft. The flag is a token of gratitude from Folds of Honor, a non-profit started in 2007 by Major Dan “Noonan” Rooney. The organization provides educational scholarships to spouses and children of America’s fallen and disabled service members. Last year, Turner Industries sponsored the Louisiana chapter’s scholarship efforts and participated in a local ‘Patriot Golf Day’ tournament fundraiser and silent auction. The funds raised will help Louisiana-area scholarship recipients.

WinTake Team Members: Justin Obney, Justin Michot, Stephen Kerry, Matthew Puneky and Jacques Steward.

Petrochem Works 2018 Benefit Golf Tournament Houston, Texas – Turner Industries participated in the Petrochem Works Benefit Golf Tournament at Wildcat Golf Course. The tournament, sponsored by East Harris County Manufacturers Association (EHCMA), Association of Chemical Industry of Texas (ACIT) and Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC), raises funds for Houston Community College, Lee College, San Jacinto College, and Construction and Maintenance Education Foundation (CMEF) scholarships.

Pictured are Business Development Team Member Brandon Joslin; Sales Manager Jim Holeman; Business Development Team Member Amy Rouse; Senior Operations Manager Rodney Shaver; Senior Vice President John Golashesky, and Vice President of Fabrication Sales Scott Tanley.

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News & Notes

Veterans Day Deer Park, Texas – Employees at Shell honored their Veteran co-workers with a celebratory luncheon. Turner is proud to have twenty Veterans working at the Shell Deer Park site.

Cody McCormick Receives Grant from Ascend Cares Foundation

ABC Outdoor Extravaganza Beaumont, Texas – Turner Industries participated in Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc. (ABC) Southeast Texas Chapter’s 25th Annual Outdoor Extravaganza. Around 2,900 people attended the trade show and networking event, which has turned into the "must-attend" event in the area.

Decatur, Ala. – Turner employee Cody McCormick received a grant from the provided 60 Thanksgiving meal boxes

API Tank Conference

to families in need via Kierra's Hope,

Austin, Texas – Turner Industries attended the

Ascend Cares Foundation. The grant

a non-profit food pantry.

2018 API Storage Tank Conference promoting our new Tank Division to the storage tank and terminal industry.

2018 Voice of Leadership Freeport, Texas – The 2018 Voice of Leadership class for the Freeport region is complete. Congratulations to our participants for a job well done.

Pictured are Donnie Greer, Phil Gauthreaux, Jim Marin, Mike Campos, Stephen Ross, Ronnie Yielding, Trevor Schineman, Ben Martinez, Dennis Crocker, George Walder, Jeff Nunley, Darryl Monroe, Lucas Higginbotham, Wes Young, and Mack Hayes.

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Pictured are Turner Business Development employees Mike Kenney and Amy Rouse.

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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. With $2.49B in 2017 revenue, 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.

SERVICE OFFERINGS CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT, RIGGING & SPECIALIZED TRANSPORTATION PIPE FABRICATION MODULAR FABRICATION MAINTENANCE & TURNAROUNDS SPECIALTY SERVICES

REGIONAL OFFICES TEXAS

Houston Point Comfort Beaumont

LOUISIANA Baton Rouge Geismar Lake Charles Monroe

ALABAMA Decatur

Corporate Office

Corpus Christi Paris Freeport Port Allen New Orleans LaPlace

Mobile

FLORIDA

Division/Regional Office

Pensacola

EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP

ROLAND TOUPS

THOMAS TURNER

STEPHEN TOUPS

BILLY GUITREAU

Executive Chairman

Chief Executive Officer

President

Chief Operating Officer

www.turner-industries.com

turnerbusdev@turner-industries.com

(800) 288-6503

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