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Together we do what we couldn’t do alone
Top to bottom: Hall of Flame meal prep; Schematic off Ravazza’s custom dozer BBQ
Team Grill Sergeants won the day with special praise for their cheese, mushroom and sausage grilled pizza bread. Everyone left full and happy.
“Since coming under one de- partment head, our fabrication and machine shops are now working smoothly as one,” says Ravazza. “We’ve worked hard to
standardize our procedures and share best practices. All the guys in both fab shops, our field welders and ma- chinists and engineering division, are onboard with our team approach. If either shop can’t meet their dead- lines, we help each other out. Or if we have maintenance to do on some piece of equipment, like the burning machine, I can rely on them [Portland] to burn our pieces and get them down to me. Or vice versa. That’s one way we help each other out. I’ve definitely been impressed with the teamwork I see every day in both shops.”
PETERSON’S CUSTOMIZED SMOKE ‘N GO (2003)
Barbequing is a great way to bring any group of people together. Jack Ravazza knows that from experience. Over his forty-plus year career at Peterson, he has built several large-scale barbeques for use at various em- ployee and customer functions. His most famous grill—JR’s Smoke ‘n Go— came about after he and a num- ber of Peterson employees attended a Granite Construction event back in December 2002. “They were using
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