Peter Clifton

As a Field Project Manager at Master Steel my weekly routine I am traveling between six to ten jobs at a time being the face of the company to the general contractor and ensuring that all field operations run smoothly. I currently hold the longest tenure at Master Steel as a field project manager and am considered one of the leaders of the erection department and have done jobs all across the states of Georgia and South Carolina. My area has now as of this year been condensed to handling our entire reach in Georgia in terms of erection.

I work with multiple different erection subcontractors and help in the effort to lead them to success, having my experience as an ironworker doing large scale projects on my tools I am able to address problems in the field and deal with them formally through RFIs and make suggestions to the engineer to push the process along quicker. Also I am able to help subcontractors review drawings and address the issues they face from fabrication errors, detailing errors, and even their own errors.

Master Steel runs our own erection field crew of 10-12 men which I fully manage daily along with all of our other subcontractors that work for us. It is my responsibility to schedule all of this crews work for the entire year, being able to input them into the yearly erection schedule for jobs that we choose to self perform rather than subcontracting the erection out.

I have managed subcontractor crews of over thirty men and have safely and efficiently been piecing together a lot of steel in this southeast region. Being the longest tenured field project manager I have mentored junior and senior staff, providing guidance on effective project execution and problem-solving strategies. As a leader in the erection department I prioritize analyzing contract drawings across all jobs to identify trends, facilitating strategic decision-making for future projects, and help my other field project managers.

With the erection experience I have brought to Master Steel I have shown up daily as a serious asset, one that is always looking for the best route to execute a project, being friendly to the budget, being safe, and making the general contractor happy.

If there is one thing that anyone who works with me can count on is that I am always staying on top of it and am always able to give an answer to a question, if I do not know something then give me a few minutes I will find out for you. I am consistently keeping track of upwards of six to ten projects from eight weeks out in pre-planning to the active erection. Being able to come in every day and be a sponge to this industry has kept me on a path of great success across multiple projects, I believe it important to always stay a student as well as being the man who is willing to teach in order to help someone else succeed too.

Notable Projects as Field Project Manager

Hilton Head Island High School, GC MB Kahn. 850+ tons

May River High School, GC Thompson Turner Construction. 200+ tons

May River Elementary School, GC Thompson Turner. 500+ tons

Richmond Hill High School, GC Pope Construction. 3,000+ tons

Porsche Dealership of Hilton Head, GC Thompson Turner. 350+ tons

New Glyndale Elementary School Replacement, GC RH Tyson. 600+ tons (ACTIVE)

Chatham County Public Safety and Annex, GC Reeves Young. 1600+ tons (ACTIVE)

JG Smith Elementary School, GC Balfour Beatty

Glynn County Fire Station, GC Samet

Tempo Hotel by Hilton, GC Pinkerton and Laws

Mahany Construction serves Savannah as a small time general contractor and has been doing so for many years, they specialize in building warehouses and are known for having their own crews in terms of all structural work. I worked in every structural trade involved in building these warehouses doing tilt-up panel/structural steel erection and concrete work

All of these jobs were tilt up panel jobs, as an erector it was a change of pace but I also learned and lead men in tilt up panel construction and erection. When not having this work to complete I fell in with Mahany's concrete and masonry department and was able to learn how to do this work as well, becoming a valued asset in that department

As an employee there I would build a warehouse start to finish, doing a lot of surveying work, site prep work, horizontal and vertical concrete work, and steel erection. Being a general contractor, the responsibility fell to only quality control and assurance while the finishes were installed by subcontractors.

I have acquired the following skills in different trades working here

Site Work and Surveying: Using Total Station, Transit, Theodolite, Trimble Drawing GPS, Auto Levels. Operating heavy machinery; Excavator, Backhoe, Dozer, and more

Concrete: learned to lay out the old fashioned way with badder boards and the new way with GPS, digging and pouring footers and setting anchor rods, pouring slabs on grade, slabs on deck, form carpentry, rod-busting, pouring concrete slabs and walls, finishing concrete, cutting, stamping, acid dying concrete. Residential, commercial, and industrial slabs. Pouring and erecting of tilt up panels. Decent experience in post tension concrete.

Steel Erection/Tilt-Up Panel Erection: Leadership of crews of 15-25, managing and sequencing stages of steel erection and tilt up panel erection simultaneously. Coordinating the signalling for two cranes on site for each erection trade.

Steel Erectors was started by my great grandfather and was passed down in my family three generations and during my time there earned the achievement of being AISC Certified Advanced Erectors. As a fourth generation ironworker I have always had a love for this industry and started off in the fabrication shop at eleven years old working under the table until 2017 I moved out into the field where I worked under a mentor with over thirty years of experience. In my time I was able to earn the status of being a journeyman ironworker, completing multiple big projects across the southeast. Some notable mentions of projects in my time here are:

P464 Aircraft Hanger Facilities, GC Haskell at Beaufort Marine Corp Air Station

Travis Fields Savannah C130 AirForce1 Hanger Facilities, GC Leebcor Services

Georgia Southern Engineering and Technology Building, GC JE Dunn

At Steel Erectors I worked as an AISC certified erector doing larger jobs over a thousand tons and going up to 2,000-3,000tons. I am a true journeyman in all ironworker skills such as welding, connecting, rigging/signalling, and am very knowledgeable on the AISC and AWS standards and procedures. I am extremely proficient in reading drawings and sequencing erection of buildings and I have built big truss' and performed many critical/tandem lifts with big cranes and others with multiple cranes. I have built buildings start to finish in terms of typical steel erection scope. I am proficient in all welding processes: GMAW, FCAW, GTAW, and SMAW, copper/brass brazing and have experience with welding different materials and grades: carbon, stainless, aluminum, cast iron, galvanized. Knowledge of many different grades and standards, how to work with certain grades, and how to do testing for field bolts. Erected everything from buildings and stairs to crane rails and overhead cranes inside of buildings, reinforced existing buildings. Worked under crawler crane, tower crane, all terrain and rough terrain cranes, overhead cranes, and boom trucks.