Career awareness often starts to take shape in middle school, making it a prime time to highlight opportunities within the electrical industry. Leadership with IBEW Locals 64 and 573, along with electrician apprentices, interacted with students at the sixth annual Mahoning Valley Skilled Trades Expo on September 16-18 at the Canfield Fairgrounds. Running the line early The…
Eric Carlson, president and owner of “Joe” Dickey Electric, has been inducted as a Fellow into the National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) Academy of Electrical Contracting. He was recognized on September 13 at the annual NECA conference in Chicago. Carlson now joins a distinguished list of Mahoning Valley NECA members who have earned a place in the Academy,…
“Joe” Dickey Electric and IBEW Local 573’s work on the massive GM Lordstown solar array is featured on the national NECA-IBEW organization’s “Electric TV” online broadcast. View the segment by clicking here. A film crew was in town last month producing the 4-minute feature story, where it interviewed several local individuals involved in the project….
David Wright’s electrical industry career has taken to the skies. The 34-year-old from Youngstown was recently promoted to head of estimating and electrical engineer at “Joe” Dickey Electric to replace Gary Williams, who’s been with the company 40 years. His journey to this executive position at one of the Mahoning Valley’s prominent electrical contracting firms…
The start of a new year also marks the beginning of a leadership change within the Mahoning Valley NECA chapter. Tom Travers, who held the executive director position since 2007, retired at the end of 2014 and transitioned the role to Jack Savage over the past six months. Savage is an attorney, formerly with Manchester,…
A proposed $800 million electrical power plant in Lordstown got one step closer to reality at a public meeting this week in the village. The project could mean significant electrical work for NECA-IBEW Electricians during construction. Massachusetts-based Clean Energy Future LLC identified a 36-acre industrial-zoned parcel on Henn Parkway in the Lordstown Industrial Park, and…
NECA-IBEW Electricians demonstrated its might in 2014 through high-profile Mahoning Valley construction projects, significant contributions to the local community and individual accolades among its members. Member contractor VEC, Inc. of Girard performed the electrical work at the Hollywood Gaming at Mahoning Valley Race Course, which opened this year. One of the ways it secured the…
North Lima-based “Joe” Dickey Electric is helping General Motors expand its automotive industry-leading solar energy footprint by installing an 8,500-panel, 6-acre large solar array at the GM Lordstown complex. The 2.2 megawatt system is the largest automotive industry solar array in the Western Hemisphere, the company said, and electricians from local electrical contractor Joe Dickey…