Welcome to UCAC Consulting
My name is Dan Campbell, Founder and Owner of Utility Construction & Contract Consulting, LLC… better known as UCAC Consulting, and I’m pleased to welcome you to my website.
My Goal: “Offer practical solutions to help strengthen your Company's performance and bottom line, through evaluations of Field Operations, Work Management Processes, and Contractual Agreements in the Utility Industry.”
WHAT I DO:
UCAC is a service provider for Utility Construction Contractors and Utility Companies. Large or small, UCAC wants to help your company move forward and be successful.
Contractors in the Utility Construction Industry will benefit using UCAC because of my proven expertise and understanding of their business which allows me to quickly identify, recommend and implement improvements. To be successful Contractors need to maximize productivity, while ensuring that performance in safety, compliance and customer care is met or exceeded. Having procedures, processes and tracking mechanisms in place to impact positive performance is the key.
Utility Companies often have difficulty in finding the right contractor(s) to perform their work that is cost effective, safety/compliance driven, and customer-focused, while being the right fit to share common goals and ensuring success for the future. This is where I come in. By setting up thorough criteria for the contractor selection process, creating and evaluating contractors’ performance metrics, and designing contractual agreements that strive on continual improvements, you can be certain that I’ll help identify the right contractor(s) for you.
To review my list of services, please go to my Services Page
Experience:
- Twenty+ years in the Utility Industry. Including…
- Fourteen years working for a large Natural Gas Utility company.
- Six+ years overseeing the operations of a large Utility Contractor.
During my career with the Utility Company I had the opportunity to work in the Engineering, Field Operations, Procurement and Workload Management Departments.
Engineering: I designed and inspected both distribution and transmission pipeline projects. The position involved training on company specifications and federal regulations requirements.
Field Operations: I supervised company inspectors and contractor crews. The position involved workload and resource planning, meeting time-lines, managing project costs and working with local and state agencies on permit requirements.
Procurement: I setup and negotiated all construction agreements from single bid to multi-year alliance agreements. I was involved in setting up the bid documents, soliciting and interviewing the vendors, leading an internal contract evaluation team, creating scorecard matrix for vendor selection and after award, led Process & Communication teams to drive continuous improvement out of the new agreements.
Workload Management: Dispatched and scheduled all construction work for company and contractor crews. This involved effective planning and forecasting skills, analyzing historical data to forecast peak workload, ensuring capital budgets were met, manage customer concerns, creating a workload scheduling process and training all personal on the process.
While working as a Utility Contractor I had the opportunity to work as an Area Manager of Operations, Director of Operations, and Director of Business Development.
Operations: I oversaw all aspects of construction management for a specific territory and customer, and was responsible for areas P&L, Safety & Compliance, Resource Management and Marketing. The position required oversight of the field personnel, warehouse team, safety/quality team and administration staff. The position also required creating and implementing internal processes for reducing costs and improving productivity.
Business Development: Responsible for market research to identify potential business development leads. I was also the company’s primary liaison for all alliance/partnership-based contracts. I attended numerous industry conferences including, AGA (American Gas Association), MEA (Midwest Energy Association), Damage Prevention and local Commission conferences.
