Blattner Company Careers, Benefits, Review

The world is changing, and so is Blattner Company. 

Blattner Company is the professional services arm of Blattner, serving and supporting both Blattner Energy and D.H. Blattner.

Our mission remains the same: we’re united under a common purpose to build a better tomorrow.

In 2021, Blattner Energy and DH Blattner & Sons worked on 20-plus projects in 11 different states.

We honored eight retirees within the company in 2021. The year of service for these retirees ranged all the way up to 36 years. This shows you our employees’ dedication to living out Blattner’s Basics and Values.

As part of our Powered-Up! Culture Program, co-workers submitted 119 stories of their team members doing good by living out our basics and values. A total of 144 employees were recognized for their contributions to Blattner’s culture as part of the Powered-Up! Program.

Blattner had 269 new hires and 70 interns in 2021.

Blattner was recognized as one of Minnesota’s Top Workplaces by the Minneapolis Star Tribune in 2022 and as a Top Solar Contractor by Solar Power World.

Where we live and work, together we gave back.

With projects across the country, we care for every community. We gave back $418,534 in 2021. Blattner’s annual food drive raised more than $240,000 and collected more than 14,000 items to help people in need.

In addition, Blattner donated $10,000 between four schools in California, Georgia, Texas and Wisconsin.

And in Central Minnesota, Blattner collaborated to bring more festoon lights to downtown St. Cloud, Minnesota. The idea behind the project was to bring light, hope and community as part of the industry milestone celebration. There are now multiple light strings running from the 900 to 600 blocks of West St. Germain Street.

Blattner celebrated a major milestone in 2021 by reaching 50,000-renewable energy megawatts. That milestone is equivalent to providing enough energy to power 14 million U.S. households or one billion light bulbs.

And possibly the brightest news of 2021 was Blattner being acquired by Quanta Services. Blattner is now an operating unit of Quanta, and together, are aligned in their focus on employees, customers and communities.

The future is bright.

Our team members form Blattner's culture. This culture responds to moments big and small. Cultivating this company culture is a never-ending endeavor. At Blattner, we celebrate it with our Powered Up! Culture program.

Doing the right thing requires intention and effort. Leveraging the strength of our people, culture and relationship-based business philosophy enables us to thrive.  

Ensuring the highest levels of quality control, assurance and safety requires more than policies and checklists. Safety integrates into everything we do.

Employees form Blattner’s culture through their actions and decisions. Culture responds to everyday influence, from moments big and small. Cultivating company culture is a daily practice. 

Our culture brings Blattner’s values and the Blattner Basics to life by showcasing them in a number of ways. It’s all about recognizing the brilliance of our people. 

Blattner’s culture fosters an environment with an emphasis on values, learning and personal development. Through our culture, we continuously move up and to the right resulting in A Better Construction Experience®.

Our passion really shines in our approach to safety. Ensuring our employees make it home safely is our responsibility. And we’ve developed a safety program that delivers. By intertwining safety throughout all levels of Blattner, we ensure every employee is part of the plan. With an integrated, all-encompassing approach to safety, we achieve excellent safety outcomes. We:

• Invest in and develop safety professionals
• Empower all team members to be responsible for their own safety and the safety of their team members
• Ensure employees are properly trained before beginning their work
• Foster a culture of safety

By including all employees as part of the plan, we foster collaboration and intertwined safety at all levels. We plan, do, assess and act. And with proven results, it works. 

Blattner’s quality system ensures the highest levels of quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) on every project. Starting with competent supervisors and craft personnel, our formal quality system ensures consistency in our approach, process, output and long-term system reliability.

Our QA/QC initiatives include:

• Timely benchmarking 
• Third-party testing and inspections
• Internal auditing programs
• Daily collection and distribution of lessons learned
• Dedicated QA/QC individuals on every project

Blattner is one of the few contractors in the world committed to a behavior-based safety program. C.A.T.S. (Changing Attitudes Towards Safety) helps create safe work environments with a no-name, no-blame approach. An approach that empowers employees and instills within them the confidence to take action, safely.

By arming employees with the skills to recognize and address safety issues, C.A.T.S. effectively makes a safety advocate out of every individual. 

As an employee-led program, C.A.T.S. empowers employees to achieve safety. And we have them to thank for Blattner’s excellent safety record.

The effectiveness of a safety program hinges on the training of every employee. At Blattner, all employees receive thorough training, both job-specific and jobsite-specific. Every training is documented and individual training records are constantly reviewed, maintained and updated. Training sessions are essential to maintaining a safe, effective jobsite. They are proactively planned by management.

Blattner's industry-leading wind contracting services have a recognized nationwide presence, and they create nationwide impact. For 20+ years, the overarching purpose of our wind services is to deliver A Better Construction Experience® to our clients. Throughout a partnership with us, they come to know and expect superior service. 

Our success stems from a strong history of responding to our clients’ needs, delivering on aggressive schedules and ensuring the highest levels of safety, quality and overall client satisfaction. 

As utility-scale wind energy contractors, we’ve built seven of the 10 largest wind projects in the U.S. Our proven project management and self-performance of all major work activities allows us to understand critical components of every project. We effectively communicate, collaborate, foresee and mitigate to ensure control over project safety, quality, schedule and productivity.

When you partner with us on a renewable energy project, we bring an unwavering commitment to quality, safety and efficiency.

Ensuring the highest levels of quality control, assurance and safety requires more than policies and checklists. As one of the few renewable energy contractors in the world committed to a behavior-based safety program, we integrate safety into everything we do. This is what makes Blattner different and places us in the top 5% of TRIR in the construction industry.

The safety of every renewable energy project starts with competent, highly trained supervisors and craft personnel. By upholding our formal quality system, they bring consistency to every approach, process, output and long-term system that goes into an energy project. 

You can’t have a successful project without it also being a safe project. And at Blattner, we deliver successful projects.

We’re able to manage every aspect of a wind energy project because of our dedication to self-performance. By self-performing all major work activities, we understand every project on the largest and smallest scales. This ensures no critical components go on untended. 

By effectively communicating the impact of decisions, we foresee and mitigate any areas of uncertainty, leaving Blattner poised to control any unforeseen obstacles that arise. 

A century of innovation is made possible one project at a time. Got expectations? We’ll exceed them.

The need for renewable energy has never been greater, and the opportunity is now. Within every solar project, Blattner focuses on driving down the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) and maximizing our client’s long-term investment.

At Blattner, our clients experience ease alongside solar expertise. As a premier utility-scale contractor with decades of energy experience and a foundation grounded in construction, we self-perform the full scope of solar services. In every phase, we communicate the impact of decisions, foresee and mitigate potential problems and ensure control over safety, quality, schedules and productivity. In 2022, we were again named a Top Solar Contractor by Solar Power World.

Ensuring the highest levels of quality control, assurance and safety requires more than policies and checklists. As one of the few renewable energy contractors in the world committed to a behavior-based safety program, we integrate safety into everything we do. This is what makes Blattner different and places us in the top 5% of TRIR in the construction industry.

The safety of every renewable energy project starts with competent, highly trained supervisors and craft personnel. By upholding our formal quality system, we bring consistency to every approach, process, output and long-term system that goes into an energy project.

You can’t have a successful project without it also being a safe project. And at Blattner, we deliver successful projects.

By providing full power delivery services as part of our solar projects, we eliminate extra opportunities for setbacks. After all, any time clients can work with a single contractor as opposed to two, they’re reducing the chances for pushed deadlines and budgetary pressures.

Whether a project has transmission or substation construction needs, we can deliver.