Management
Leadership so strong, we suspect they’re reinforced with rebar.
Craig F. Sorensen
Chairman/CEO
When Craig started this business in 1977, he thought he was starting a company. Instead he was establishing a legacy – a legacy of quality, integrity, and dedicated service. It didn’t take long for Craig to build SCI into one of the Intermountain West’s biggest success stories.
Currently, Craig leads an employee base of 300 people, which includes many members of his family. Craig has made a statement by keeping SCI a family oriented company for more than 30 years now.
Craig has attended both Weber State University and Davis Applied Vocational Center. He has also gained such extensive field knowledge that he is proficient in all areas of the business, from office operations to field operations to equipment operations.
Craig has a private pilot’s license, and sits on the board of Directors for the Associated Builders and Contractors of Utah. He also holds a Board Director’s position with the Captive Resource Insurance Group, and is a Master Graduate of Rapport Leadership International.
Debra Sorensen
Secretary-Treasurer
The second SCI became a company, Debbie became a part of it. She jokes that she’s been with us since the beginning of time. Debbie has been a critical component in our overall success. She has worked as our Treasurer and Office Manager. And until recently, she’s also been a Controller.
Debbie is self-taught in accounting and has taken many professional training courses She even earned the honor of Master Graduate by Rapport Leadership International in November 2006.
Because of the strong sense of family within the SCI organization, Debbie’s work has been more than just doing a job. She has had a vested interest in helping her sons grow and in further developing the company.
Outside the office she lovestraveling, golfing, camping and spending time with her grandchildren.
Chad Sorensen
President
You could call Chad a lifelong member of our company, but his official tenure with SCI began straight out of high school, when he signed on as a Drops Installer. Since then Chad has worked especially hard to gain a wide range of experience. He has held a variety of positions within the company including Foreman, Project Manager, and Director.
In 2004 he was promoted to President of SCI, and continues to carry on the Sorensen legacy of strong, family-oriented leadership.
Chad is a Master Graduate of Rapport Leadership International. He is also the director of BUY (Building Utah Youth) Foundation, a youth organization committed to establishing leadership skills in our future business leaders.
When not on the job, Chad is often seen trap shooting, hunting, camping, and playing softball.
Clint Sorensen
Wasatch Barricade Manager
Clint has worked for SCI since 1997. Clint started his career at SCI literally at the ground floor, installing telephone lines in our Drops Division, quickly being promoted to field supervisor. Clint has also worked in our Aerial Division doing overhead CATV and then moving on to underground installation of coax cable. Clint has spliced Fiber Optic cable, sweep tested, and certified CATV systems. Clint was promoted to Wasatch Barricade division manager in 2004, and controls all of SCI’s dispatching of dump trucks, transports and vacuum trucks, while managing, estimating, and controlling Wasatch Barricade in Utah and Arizona. Besides being certified at fiber splicing, Clint is a UDOT certified traffic control supervisor and flagger certified. Clint has completed many classes in Leadership, communications, dispatching, and training on various computer software programs. Clint is also a Director on our Executive Team.
Cody Sorensen
I.S. Manager
Cody started working for SCI about 14 years ago off and on during the summers when he was still in high school. Initially, he worked in the shop steam cleaning equipment and trucks and keeping the shop and yard clean. He particularly remembers the first summer being too young to drive so he’d have to ride his bike to work on several occasions. After graduation, he worked for a few months on Drops until he enrolled at Weber State University. In between college breaks, he would work for our structured cabling department, doing inside wiring of voice and data networks, and later worked part time in the accounts payable department. He later pursued his passion for computers and technology when he applied for an I.S. Technician position, where he worked for 4 years before being promoted to I.S. Manager. He graduated from WSU with a bachelor of science degree in Information Systems and Technology. He has designed and implemented several databases and programs, such as our equipment database, job scheduler and drops databases, our bid database, barricade tracker, and an HRIS system known as PRIMO and our time card system, to name a few.
Chase Sorensen
Estimator & Executive Team Director
Chase has been a full-time employee of SCI since 2000 but he’s been a part of our company his entire life. Over the span of his career, he has served in many different positions. He got his start working in our Fleet department assisting our mechanics in maintaining our equipment. He was quickly promoted into the Field, initially working as a laborer on an excavation crew. He was promoted to the position of Buried Service Wire Foreman and then moved into our Horizontal Directional Drilling department as a Foreman. He successfully ran a Bore crew for 4 years. Chase is currently using the knowledge he obtained from working in the field for 8 years as on OSP Estimator. Chase attended Weber State University and is also a Rapport Leadership Master Graduate. He also serves our company as a Director on our Executive Team and is actively involved in moving our company towards success for many years in the future.
Kelly Nielsen
Vice – President
Kelly Nielsen has done just about everything since starting with SCI in August 1978. He started out as a Cable Installer and worked his way up through the positions of Operator, Foreman, Superintendent, Project Manager, and COO. He now works as SCI’s Vice President and oversees the out state operations throughout the Western United States as well as our Electrical and Teledata Divisions. People who work with Kelly appreciate his enthusiastic approach to everything he does, although some might consider him a little impatient.
When Kelly is not in the office, he likes hunting, scuba diving, and getting away in the mountains. He can often be heard bragging about his four children. Kelly really enjoys working for a company that cares about its employees, and he is excited to see SCI expand as its operations enter new states and become more diversified.
Steve Brinkerhoff
Director of Estimating
In addition to wearing a hard hat, Steve has worn many other hats for us at SCI. He has held numerous titles since joining us in 1998. So far he has held the titles of Estimator, Division Manager, and Director.
Steve currently manages the Estimating Department. His past employment has given him extensive training in many areas of construction, including roads and bridge construction, gas pipe line construction, and Telco construction.
You can always trust Steve to tells it like it is.
When he’s not at work, he can be found enjoying time with his three children, eating t-bone steaks, listening to country music, and watching baseball.
Allen Dantz
Director of Utah Construction
In 1994 Allen joined us at SCI. And since then he has applied his talents in a myriad of ways, including working as both a Contract Manager and a Director of out of state construction. He has also held the reins on Project Management and Estimating in his time at SCI.
Currently, Allen is the Director of our Utah construction team where he oversees and directs a team of 8 project managers.
Prior to coming on board at SCI, he earned an associates degree from Dixie State College and went on to get a Manufacturing Engineering degree from Weber State University.
Allen likes 70’s music, skiing, fishing, and team sports. Rumor is, he’s also pretty fond of his family.
Jeremy Bowles
Fleet Manager
Jeremy has been with our company for 12 years. He currently is our Fleet Manager, overseeing 14 employees, which are diagnostic, maintenance and repair experts. He is responsible for the maintenance and management of over 1200 pieces of equipment. These responsibilities also include the negotiation of sales and acquisitions of new and used equipment. Jeremy is also skilled in Horizontal Drilling and other excavation techniques. An experienced Project Manager, he also has skills in estimating and sales.
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