🏗️👷 Introducing Hobby Nelson, our Shop Trainer and Team Leader at Schuff Steel, a passionate builder and dedicated mentor who has spent 32 years helping make Schuff Steel what it is today, and whose decades of steel fabrication experience are shaping the next generation of craftsmen on our shop floor! Hobby works at our Phoenix shop, Schuff’s very first fabrication shop, and he is exactly the kind of person who represents the heart and soul of our company as we celebrate our 50th Anniversary.
🔧📋 As a Shop Trainer and Team Leader, Hobby leads classroom training programs that cover everything from industry processes, sequencing, bundling, and tracking, all the way to the most important thing: safety. Then he takes it to the floor, where he draws on years of hands-on fabrication experience to show new team members exactly how it's done.
🔧 What he loves most about his job: It's a passion, plain and simple. Hobby has always loved building things and at Schuff Steel, he gets to do that every single day while passing that same love for the craft on to others. Here at Schuff, some of what we do is experimental by nature. We figure it out as we go, and we always build to code, no shortcuts. When you walk away from it, you're proud of it.
🏆 Some of his favorite Schuff projects: Hobby's resume speaks for itself, including the Eiffel Tower at Paris Las Vegas, a 50-story replica of the Parisian landmark; the Wilshire Grand Center, the tallest building on the West Coast; the Loma Linda University Medical Center, a 2.5-year mega project located in a seismic region; and Chase Field with its retractable roof, just to name a few. 🏙️🏗️
💡 What keeps him motivated? The pride that comes from doing things the right way. Every project, every beam, every column, built to last and built to code. That sense of craftsmanship and purpose is what gets him going every day.
🔩 Advice for those just starting out: "Give 100% and you're going to go somewhere. Show up, show like you care, and have a positive attitude, because attitude is everything in life."
🎣 Outside of work: When he's not on our shop floor, Hobby is out in nature, fishing every Monday and hunting with his son on the weekends. Both of his kids are hugely successful, and he's rightfully proud of the family he's built alongside the steel structures that define his career. 🦌🎣
Thank you, Hobby, for your 32 years of dedication to Schuff Steel and the investment you make in every person who comes through your classroom. Here's to 50 years of Schuff Steel and many more! 👏🎉
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