The construction industry needs 240,000 new employees each year and is expected to grow by 15% in the next four years.  That was a message delivered to students at Hobart Institute in April by Anne Kutscher and Dwight Littlefield from the human resources department of Cianbro Corporation.

“Why get involved in construction?” Dwight questioned the students.  “Because construction workers love what they do!  They achieve a sense of accomplishment and can see their hard work pay off at the end of a day in what they have completed.”

Cianbro is an employee owned company, providing construction and service solutions to clients throughout North America. With the ability to perform all aspects of heavy industrial and civil construction projects, Cianbro also provides steel fabrication, modularized construction and construction management services.

“We have a definite need for skilled welders,” Anne said. 

That need – and the fact that Cianbro Superintendent Mark Richardson is a graduate of Hobart Institute who has moved up through the ranks -- is what brought them to Troy to present their company to HIWT students and conduct interviews with potential candidates.

“It is important to be a graduate and to have that diploma,” explained Dwight.  “We are not here to hire those who have not completed their training.  And health and safety is a top priority at Cianbro,” Dwight said.  “Our goal is to have zero injuries in the workplace and become the healthiest company in the United States.”

Cianbro relies on the best professionals in the construction industry.  From the Carolinas to Maine, their team's pride, innovation, and can-do spirit have made them the constructor of choice.  If you are safety-focused, team-oriented, customer-driven, and eager to learn, they want you to join their team.  They are always looking for outstanding people.

Incorporated in 1949, Cianbro is one of the East Coast's largest civil and heavy industrial construction and construction services companies with over 2,500 team members.   Cianbro was founded with a great work ethic and teamwork.  As an eleven-year-old, Raphael Cianchette boarded a passenger ship alone in Naples, Italy bound for America.  There he raised his four sons -- Carl, Ken, Bud, and Chuck Cianchette to be hardworking, self-reliant entrepreneurs.  Instilled with their parents' philosophy--treat people with dignity and respect, your word is your bond, and give back from which you take--the boys delivered newspapers, worked odd jobs, and learned early the value of a positive, can-do attitude and the rewards of an honest day's work.

They believed in themselves and they believed they could succeed by working together.  They also believed they could achieve the impossible regardless of what the obstacles were. In 1946, the four men locked arms to build a construction empire.  The Cianchette brothers--each unique and different individuals--provided their company with tremendous depth in its early years.  Their mutual respect and trust in one another allowed them to focus on growing the company.  They initiated the teamwork that Cianbro thrives on today.  And, they believed that the people who worked beside them should be the future owners of the company.  Their legacy lives on.   This same confidence and can-do spirit lives on in their employees today.  It is what allows Cianbro to successfully complete some of the most complex projects in the construction industry. 

For nearly 60 years, Cianbro has satisfied clients in the areas of automated distribution centers, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, fabrication and coating, food and beverage processing, fossil fuel, hydro, and nuclear power plants, hospitals, large building complexes, parking garages,  pulp and paper , semiconductors,  transportation and marine infrastructure, water and wastewater , and utility and telecommunications.

Some of their projects include construction and installation of exploratory oil rigs, supply vessels for the Gulf of Mexico, bridges, the Air Force Memorial in Washington, DC, and their new Eastern Manufacturing facility in Brewer, Maine.  This fixed base facility is currently fabricating 1,000 ton modularized units that will be shipped and assembled at an oil refinery expansion project in Port Arthur, Texas. 

For further information, go to www.cianbro.com or contact Dwight Littlefield at P.O. Box 1000, Pittsfield, ME 04967 or dlittlef@cianbro.com or Anne Kutscher at 40 E. Dudley Town Road, Bloomfield, CT 06002 or akutsche@cianbro.com.