Finding and retaining talented employees is an ongoing challenge for any organization, especially in this current precarious job market. The need to grow a talent base has become even more necessary, and the P1 internship program is helping address some of these needs for the immediate future and beyond. In 2021,...
When it comes to customer service, serving our internal customers is just as important as serving the external ones, and there are critical support groups within P1 without whom our associates couldn’t serve their external customers. One of those critical groups is our P1 Project Coordinators (PCs). A PC supports multiple...
You might say the “luck of the Irish” was with P1 Group when Senior Project Manager Zach Kittle came on board. A 2005 graduate of the Construction Science program at K-State, Zach joined P1 for what he thought was just a temporary job while he looked for work with a general...
It’s no surprise Virtual Design & Construction (VDC) Sheet Metal Specialist James Daugherty built a better way to enjoy cold beverages. His skill for building things and curiosity about how things work not only led him down an entrepreneurial path, it also helped him find his career at P1. When a...
It’s not only beginning to look a lot like Christmas, but also sound a lot like Christmas. Holiday tunes are being played everywhere you turn. And whether you like the fun bouncy tunes that get you motivated to wrap gifts or bake goodies, the carols that connect to your spiritual side,...
The trend of keeping backyard chickens has been on the rise over the past few years, and VDC Specialist Nate Littlejohn has recently joined the ranks of back yard poultry farmers. Having fresh eggs available is one of the obvious reasons people are drawn to raising chickens, but Nate says his...
“I think of us as a creative agency for P1 associates.” Marketing + Communications Manager Victoria Hoffman understands that serving P1’s internal customers is the way in which Marketing serves the company. “We have an open door to discuss whatever they need, might need, or don’t even know they need,” Victoria...
P1 Group has typically acquired business based on the merit of the work performed and considering we have been going strong for 102 years, the system seems to be working. But ultimately, it’s very competitive out there, and a good relationship can tip the scales in one’s favor. That’s where Business...
When planning construction installation, what if you could put plans into context, seeing the full design intent on your project, by overlaying the BIM model directly over the real environment, while you’re actually navigating the environment? That’s the crux of mixed reality, the technology driving the latest acquisition of our Virtual...
When the P1 field associates working on electrical boxes for a confidential customer ran into a challenge, our Virtual Design & Construction department had the technology to address it. Workers needed to run conduit to some electrical boxes placed in tricky spots, the tallest of which was around 50 feet high....
Over the past few years, the St. Joseph office staff and field personnel have worked hard to gain traction in the small community, and it hasn’t been without challenges. But recently, things have really begun to click. Heather Richards-St. Clair took over as General Manager of the branch in 2018, and...
“We are not a team because we work together. We are a team because we respect, trust, and care for each other.” These are the words Project Coordinator Misty McConnell shared with the St. Joe team at the end of 2020, and according to St. Joseph Office General Manager Heather Richards-St....
It’s nice to see interns back at P1! Team leaders across the company are excited about the crop of talent working with us this summer. Corporate Trainer Sarah Garcia explained the implementation of new additions to the program this year. “Our goal is to ‘wow’ the interns this summer,” Sarah said....
Paul Smith is retiring after 38 years of service to AD Jacobson and P1 Group. Vice President Paul Smith can recall his very first job at P1 (then AD Jacobson Company) – right down to the exact day. After nearly 38 years with the company, that’s pretty impressive. It was the...
As much as I love a good cheesy Christmas movie (as witnessed here), Netflix’s “rom com” selection is pretty great too, and there’s no shortage of romantic shenanigans: assistants setting bosses up, kissing booths, absurd plots, and funny best friends. And what goes better with cheese than wine? Here are my...
Each year, P1 Group challenges our youngest artists to share their interpretations of our Safety Culture for the annual Safety Calendar. The participants are all children or relatives of our associates. Out of a total 25 entries, we ended up with 13 winners and one cool calendar. We’d like to kick...
By Tiffany Oldham Hi. My name is Tiffany, and I am a Christmas movie addict. I don’t know what it is about those cheesy Christmas movies but they get me every time. I just can’t wait to see the new list of Christmas movies coming to Netflix every year. With all...
“I’m pretty sure I have creative Attention Deficit Disorder because I want to do it all.” These are the words of Marketing Proposal Specialist Beth Martens, and while those who know her work would never call it a “disorder”, we think she just might be able to do it all. Creativity is...
P1 Group Brings Single-Source Advantage to University of Kansas Health System “Success favors the prepared.” This famous philosophy from biologist Louis Pasteur is the reason P1 Group has all trades, including mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and technologies, working to create single-source solutions for The University of Kansas Health System (TUKHS). P1 Group’s...
When every associate - from executives, to foremen, to project managers and field personnel – consistently dedicate themselves to the company’s safety culture every day, it gets noticed. Innovation and associate buy-in are just two of the reasons P1 Group was recently awarded the highly competitive Safety Excellence Award from the...
