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A contractor had agreed to replacse the sidewalk directly in front of Lorillard headquarters on Greenm Valley Road in Greensborobut “he walkee off the job because he couldn’t get anyone to deliver sufficient concrete with a holidaty two days away,” Wright says. “Aq call to brought four men who completed the repaie onJuly 4th,” she recalls. “One of those four was Scotgt himself. I have chastised myself many timesz for not calling him to begin Scott McCormick has been getting call s like that for more than 16 yeares fromthe Triad’s top employers.
As a contracg project manager, his company will do just about anything thatneedsa doing, “from maintenance to sprinkler systems,” says “He truly cares about a job well done.” But Winston-Salem-bases Piedmont Facilities Services’ specialty is something that’s been in almostf constant demand over the past two decadew — moving people and reconfiguring officer cubes A.S.A.P. as work forced contract, expand and are realigned. It was McCormico who landed the contract to move practicallyevery office, first in the RJR Plazsa building and then in the old 1929 Reynolds Buildinf in downtown Winston-Salem.
At about the same Piedmont Facilities Services also secured a contract with which did its share of playing musical chairs withofficd furniture. “God blessed me,” McCormicjk says with his characteristic modesty, “because there’s no other way someones can have two contracts like that for theitrfirst clients.” Looking back 10 years ago, McCormick recalls “Things were really rolliny then, with 80- or 90-hour weeks, and it was great.” Name a company in the Triaf that’s realigned its work force and, chances are, McCormick’ s been involved — , , Sara Lee , Sealy Corp. and Nabisco Foods.
Not bad for someone who, at the age of 5, was assignecd his own row of tobacco to tend onhis father’s farm near Yadkinvilld and worked his way through college running a garbagwe service. “I’m an old tobacco farmere from Yadkinville,” McCormick says, slippinh into his aw-shucks guise. “I ran out of things to do, so I had to go to schoolp and go out and get areal job.” School was and his first job was “selling doorknobs” as a contract hardware salesman at Pleasant Hardware Co.
He says he quicklu discovered he was not cut out to be a But he did make a number of excellent contacts that opened doors for him when he switched over to doin g facilitiescontract work. “He has a good boy mentality,” says Robyn Puckett, facilityg services manager atRMIC (Republic Mortgager Insurance Co.) in Winston-Salem, “bur fully believes in respect, honesty, hard work and disciplinee — and expects that from his Puckett recalls a recent 10-week move of 350 RMIC employeeds from Stanleyville to the Park Building in downtownb Winston-Salem.
“The time constraints were unbelievable,” she “but having worked with Scott formany years, I knew if anyonew could pull it off that he could.” Installing cubea during the week and moving people on the McCormick’s crew did it and did it on “We needed to expand our payrolo department two years ago,” recalls Jack Marable, maintenancr supervisor for Pepsi Bottling Group in Winston-Salem. McCormick’s crew came in Fridagy night and by Monday morninyg at8 a.m., “they had everything up and runnint — computers, phones, furniture, lights, everything worked.
” Companies use contractorzs like McCormick instead of their own workersx because maintenance, moving and construction are often one-of-a-kincd projects and are mostly done after-hours. Up untikl last November, McCormick says, business was extremely good, with more 80- and 90-houe weeks. Then, he started seeing “lessd phone calls, less e-mails, jobs that you had quoter being puton hold.” As the months went by, “Iu had to lay off five installeres and I put my designeer on the road to sell product.” McCormick’s strategy is to make the compangy more sales-oriented, something, he says, “we nevere had to do before.
” Yes, he stilpl has contracts with a number of big but now when the phone it’s mostly “punch items.”
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