So expect to be asked to travel to these sites. Majority of FTI's profit comes from very large travel projects across the US. Most field employees are not energetic, not happy and seem depressed. The actions most certainly don't match the words and "culture" that is promoted. FTI does not care about work/life balance and family life. The pay is great, the company has very good insurance, excellent benefits, however, it comes at a cost. As a field employee it is not a career company. "So we don't use the 'R' word," Lynn adds, referring to recession.FTI is a great company if you are working remotely out of your home or in the office. "We're not allowed to use the excuse that there's a bad economy," Klein says. That level of service may help the company reach this year's revenue goal of $19 million - up from $15 million in 2008 revenues. (Faith Technologies), over the years, has proven it can be competitive and always provide good service." Unfortunately, we oftentimes have to take the cheap price, but what you really hope for is that somebody with the cheap price has got the quality people at the same time. General contractor Quint, who also has worked with Faith Technologies on the Springfield Expo Center, Dixie Stampede and several industrial park projects, says, "They're a pretty tough competitor when it comes to the electrical side. We just need the economy to cooperate, and we're there." "We're geared at this place to do about 30 percent more work than what we're doing right now," Klein says. The previous location was about 8,000 square feet. To set the stage for growth, Faith Technologies relocated in August 2008 to a 12,000-square-foot facility at 1820 N. Our goal is continued growth, even in the downturn." "We've got a lot of quality people out there, and we don't want to lose them. Klein notes that one of the division's primary goals through this down economy is "being able to get enough work to keep our people going," he says. It's enough to keep Faith Technologies' roughly 70 employees busy - for now. Projects under way include BKD's downtown headquarters, CoxHealth's emergency department and ambulatory surgery center, and military barracks at Fort Leonard Wood. Senior construction project manager Dave Klein ticks off a list: Branson Landing, Taney County Justice Center, Sight and Sound Theatre and, most recently, the Springfield-Branson National Airport terminal. The company, which has 15 offices in six states and about 1,500 employees nationwide, is ranked 26th among Electrical Construction Magazine's Top 50 Electrical Contractors, according to Faith Technologies' local division has been involved in some of the region's largest projects. "They came up with the name of Faith because we had the faith that we could be successful."Īpparently, their instincts were right. "It was kind of a contest, name-that-company type of situation, I guess," Lynn recalls. In 2002, a group of employees executed a buyback of SKC and Town & Country Electric from Encompass and formed one company. "We always dealt with Bob Lynn and his staff, and it was more of an even keel for us." "We never noticed any difference," he says.
Quint says because of Lynn's leadership, his company didn't experience some of the troubles happening nationwide for Encompass. "It got kind of rocky there for a while," says Rick Quint, president of Walton Construction's Springfield division, who first worked with SKC in 1992 on the Grand Village Shops project in Branson. "The corporate structure just wasn't working the way we wanted it to, and we thought we could do better," Lynn says. In the late 1990s, he says, the company merged with Encompass Services Corp., which had business interests nationwide. In 1986, he joined SKC, taking his crew with him. officially began in 2002, but its local history goes deeper than that.īob Lynn, vice president of Faith Technologies and division manager for the company's Springfield and Tulsa locations, says his involvement began in the 1980s, when his electrical company began doing work for what was then SKC Electric.
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