SUBSTATIONS

The Region's Substation Resource

Substation work requires a very skilled team. We provide a motivating work environment for personnel who specialize in all types of substation construction and maintenance work. The two main types of construction are as follows: 

NEW CONSTRUCTION:

·    Timely substation construction is necessary to meet the growing electrical needs in high-growth areas.  Our skilled employees can meet your construction deadlines!

·    Skilled employees are critical when installing substation components, sensitive controls, and expensive equipment.  Our employees are some of the finest in the Southeast.

We believe a quality product means it looks good, too.  We take extra effort to make sure your substation meets your expectations.

MAINTENANCE:

·    Sumter Utilities can provide all of your maintenance needs through a network of skilled employees and outside technical and engineering expertise.  We can also provide turnkey retrofit services to meet your changing substation requirements.

SETTING STANDARDS - SECOND TO NONE

PERSONNEL:

•   Our wages, benefits and company reputation allow us to attract and maintain the best employees in the business.

·    Our experienced employees arrive at your work site - a polished, polite, professional representative of the local utility.

·    Our team approach includes state-of-the-art, in-house accounting and productivity measurement systems that increase crew efficiency and reduce overhead and construction costs.

·    All challenges reviewed and scrutinized regularly by a project team which includes Superintendent, Estimator,  General Foreman and Safety Specialist.

·    We complete projects of all sizes and types!  No commercial, industrial or institutional job is too big or too small.

SAFETY:

·    No job is so important that we compromise safety.  At Sumter Utilities, Safety really is Job #1~We operate a full-time safety department consisting of a manager and two field safety specialists  All crews are inspected and graded on their safety performance every six weeks.

·    Our field employees are rewarded for their safety work methods though our Safety Incentive Program.

·    Sumter Utilities maintains one of the lowest Worker’s Comp Experience Modification Rates in the Southeast.

MODERN FLEET:

·    Our fleet is up-to-date and  meticulously maintained.

·    All trucks and equipment are standardized to project a professional graphic image to our customer, their consumers, and to the public.

·    Our complete, comprehensive equipment inventories include: hydraulic cranes; aerial bucket trucks; digger derricks and pressure diggers; all types conductor stringing equipment; excavation machinery including backhoes, dozers, loaders and trenchers.

·    All crews are completely tooled for the work they are performing.

 OTHER CONSTRUCTIVE FACTS

•   Corporate Headquarters: 1151 North Pike West, Sumter, SC 29153

·    Satellite Office: 1890 Milford Street, Charleston , SC  29405

•   Owner of One Subsidiary Company:

    Line Equipment Sales Co., Inc. (a wholesale supplier and distributor of electrical construction tools and power line materials).

    •   Bonding Company: Linden Company a Hobbs Group Company.

•   Currently Licensed in Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas Vermont, Virginia and the US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.

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