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CANE’s Contractor Member of the Year Award is the highest honor bestowed on a contractor member by their peers. Previous recipients are some of the most respected men and women who continue, year after year, to work for the betterment of our industry. They each represent the high standard of business excellence that our Association has come to expect, and this year’s recipient fits this high standard perfectly. This year, our members voted Maureen Dagle of Dagle Electrical Construction Corp. as our Contractor Member of the Year. Maureen grew up in Charlestown and is one of five children from what her husband described as a typical Irish family, together with her mother and father Rose and Phil Kelly. After graduating High School she attended Bunker Hill Community College and then worked as an office manager in Cambridge for 16 years. The real magic began when Maureen first met her husband Jim. Many years later, they married and moved to Melrose. It wasn’t until Maureen and Jim’s three daughters were born that Maureen realized working for herself was the best option while raising her family. In 1997 she alone started an electrical company, and it was incorporated in 1999, changing the name to what it is now, Dagle Electrical Construction Corp.
She owns 100% of the business, and later, her husband Jim went to work for her. Together as a team, Maureen and Jim grew the company out of their basement in Melrose, hiring an estimator and a project manager. She got her construction supervisor license in 2001. She then went to the Peterson School of Engineering in Woburn, and in 2003, got her journeyman electrical license, and then in 2005, she received her master electrical license. Today, as a WBE, the company has their offices in Wilmington where they now have a fleet of over 160 trucks and 200 employees. When Maureen joined UCANE, she jumped right in by joining various committees, and later served on our Board of Directors, and as a member of our Government Relations Committee for more than four years. Our members have only wonderful things to say about Maureen, as does our staff. Her quiet demeanor and her willingness to do whatever is needed to help out, puts her in a class all her own. As if winning this award was not surprise enough for Maureen, who likes to fly under the radar, to further surprise her, her three daughters, Emerald, Samantha, and Alyssa, and all of her siblings were in attendance to see her receive this prestigious award.
It was our great pleasure to present UCANE’s 2019 Contractor Member of the Year Award to Maureen Dagle, and we look forward to her continued dedication and involvement in our Association.
NOVEMBER, 2019
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