-: My names Wyatt Irwin, I'm a project engineer
with Knutson Construction here in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
We specialize in self-perform work,
like concrete masonry that sort of thing.
So we do a lot of parking ramps, CMU structure
that sort of building, as well as hospital
and clean room type facilities.
Well, it's kind of a big hat to wear,
we do a lot of work between sub-contractors and architects,
and it's a lot of small things
that people outside the industry,
you know, wouldn't even know occur
for say some middles and RFI's.
It's a lot of checking of information,
coordination of tasks, scheduling's a big part of it.
My responsibility right now is procurement,
so making sure all the items necessary to build
they show up on time and are the right item.
So if we get the wrong thing out in a day,
you know, it could delay that task one day,
but since that task didn't happen that day
it puts the whole schedule out of wack.
Right now I'm working at the
University of Minnesota Shepherd laboratories.
It's a two story renovation where
we're completely gutting out the old labs
and bringing in a new layout and basically
a whole new building for these two stories.
It's roughly, I'd say, nine million dollars
worth of work over the course of 11 months.
And a big challenge on this one
is the building is still occupied,
and it's occupied with, you know, research.
So it's not like we can just knock on the door
and say hey we have to come in today and do this
it's all planned ahead when they're moving out,
when their experiments are done.
So it's really working around the user
to get the facility ready for them.
Most days I am on location, just because I like to go in
and talk to the guys, see how they're doin'.
It's kind of a personal preference for me.
I could work from our main office,
or even home if I chose to but I like goin' on site,
you know, get the feel for the day,
see how everyone's doin',
it's a lot more personal that way.
Working hours typically I show up
anywhere between seven and eight,
really depends on what meetings I have in the morning.
Like, today for example I had a nine o'clock owners meeting,
well, of course, then I wanna be in at seven
to prep for the meeting, but typical day
seven thirty to eight and then
probably leave four thirty, four o'clock on a good day.