“Our switchover window was nine hours and they finished with time to retest. The foreman's daily log was the first thing I read every morning.”
Gary S.Project manager, general contractor
IBEW signatory contractor · Pittsburgh, PA
Power for the rooms that cannot go dark
McKinney Electrical is a union shop of 120 electricians, foremen and apprentices. We self-perform data halls, hospital and lab power, tower fit-out and plant controls for general contractors and owners' reps across western Pennsylvania.
120
Electricians, foremen and apprenticesOn the current roster
5-year
Paid apprenticeshipClassroom and field, with the joint training committee
0.74
Experience mod rateThree-year average on our insurer's letter
OSHA 30
For every foreman and superintendentOSHA 10 for every field employee
Updated each January from our OSHA 300A log and our insurer's EMR letter.
What we self-perform
Four kinds of work, one crew culture
Our own electricians do the work we bid, from the first conduit to the last test record.
Mission-critical power
Medium-voltage tie-ins, generator paralleling, UPS and PDU distribution, built in planned shutdown windows.
Towers and core and shell
Risers, bus duct, tenant metering and life-safety power for new high-rise and mid-rise buildings.
Plants and controls
Motor control centers, drives and panel work for plants that can only stop on a schedule.
Fit-out and service
Tenant floors, lighting controls and service agreements for owners who want the same crew back.
Named projects
Recent work, by name
GCs and owners' reps ask who built it. Here is the list, with what we did on each.
- Data center
Ridgeline Data Hall, phase 2
Medium-voltage tie-in, generator paralleling and PDU distribution, built in two planned shutdown windows.
- Lab and research
Confluence Life Sciences Tower
Core and shell power through the riser, then lab distribution and essential-power panels floor by floor.
- Healthcare
Mercer Street Medical Pavilion
Essential-power branches and transfer switches, phased around operating rooms that stayed in service.
- Industrial plant
Keystone Rolling Mill, line 3
New motor control centers and drives, landed over a planned outage and tested before the line restarted.
- Parking and site
Eastgate Mixed-Use Garage
Garage lighting, EV-ready conduit and site power for a deck above street-level retail.
Apprenticeship
We train the electricians we will need in five years
Apprentices work beside journeymen from the first week and go to class on a set schedule. Jaylen Scales runs the program and reads every application himself.
Paid at every step of the five years
Evening classes with the joint training committee
Rotations through service, fit-out and controls crews
OSHA 10 before the first day on a site
Jaylen Scales
Director of apprenticeship
How a job runs
From bid set to closeout, in the order your schedule needs
- 01
Step 1: Bid review
We read the drawings and specs, list our assumptions and send our questions in one batch before the bid date.
- 02
Step 2: Submittals and prefab
Gear, shop drawings and prefabricated racks are scheduled against the long-lead items, not after them.
- 03
Step 3: Shutdown plan
Every outage gets a written plan: who is on it, what is isolated and what is tested before power comes back.
- 04
Step 4: Install and inspect
Foremen keep daily logs, and inspections are booked as each area is ready.
- 05
Step 5: Commissioning and closeout
Test records, as-builts and the O&M binder are handed over area by area, not in one pile at the end.
Qualifications
What goes in your prequalification packet
Ask for it with the bid invitation and the estimating desk sends it the same week.
Insurance
General and umbrella liability
Your insurance carrier
Certificates go out with every prequalification packet
Union and trade
IBEW signatory contractor
Local number and scale on the packet
Training
OSHA 30
Foremen and superintendents
OSHA 10
Every field employee
From the owner's side of the table
What project teams say after closeout
“They flagged a feeder conflict at the submittal stage, not in the ceiling. That conversation cost us an afternoon instead of a change order.”
Patrycja V.Owner's representative
“The same four foremen ran every phase of the pavilion. I never had to explain the site rules twice.”
Courtney H.Facilities director
Sample reviews.
Where our crews work
Western Pennsylvania, out from the Pittsburgh core
Crews report to the shop on Smallman Street, so jobs inside these counties are staffed from here. Beyond them we look at each bid on its own.
Allegheny County
- Pittsburgh
- Monroeville
- Moon Township
- Bethel Park
- McKeesport
- Wexford
Butler County
- Cranberry Township
- Butler
Washington County
- Canonsburg
- Washington
Westmoreland County
- Greensburg
- Murrysville
Beaver County
- Beaver
- Aliquippa
We do not staff jobs more than about two hours' drive from the Pittsburgh shop, or in the Erie or Philadelphia areas, without talking through travel and lodging first.
Bid requests
Send us the bid set
Drawings, specs, addenda and the bid date. An estimator reads them and replies with questions or a plain yes or no on bidding.