Steve Feamster - Dirty Jobs with a Clean Purpose
Episode 53 · Jul 15, 10:00 AM
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Shep sits down with Steve Feamster, owner of Sanitary Welding LLC out of Novi, Michigan. Steve specializes in hygienic, food-grade stainless steel fabrication, the behind-the-scenes work that keeps food processing plants, pharmaceutical facilities, and water filtration systems clean and running. It's one of those industries that quietly touches just about everything.
Steve's road to get there is anything but straight. From growing up in Detroit tinkering with engines pulled off a garbage barge, to a serious angle grinder injury, to packing up and moving to California with nothing but a welder and a Craigslist lead, he built his business the hard way, on his own terms.
They dig into the skills gap in the trades, what shop class disappearing from schools is actually costing us, the tension between union culture and building a workplace people actually want to show up to, and where 3D metal printing is taking manufacturing.
Steve's road to get there is anything but straight. From growing up in Detroit tinkering with engines pulled off a garbage barge, to a serious angle grinder injury, to packing up and moving to California with nothing but a welder and a Craigslist lead, he built his business the hard way, on his own terms.
They dig into the skills gap in the trades, what shop class disappearing from schools is actually costing us, the tension between union culture and building a workplace people actually want to show up to, and where 3D metal printing is taking manufacturing.