Piper Grimm

Girder Skirts the Podcast

This episode features Piper Grimm.

Piper has been in construction for just over 3 years now. Moving to this industry was a big change from where she started. At that time she was in school for molecular and cellular biology and was working in the complaints department of a call center. She was quickly losing faith in her degree and getting fed up with her dead-end job. She got talking with her husband about things she enjoyed doing and working with her hands was one of them. They looked into a few options, then welding was brought up by her father who had heard about a welding school. Piper checked it out and shadowed one of the students. After that Piper decided this was the place for her, so she enrolled. After 6 months and much blood, sweat and tears she graduated the top of her welding class. Piper was the first women at this school to do that which she am very proud of. After school, Piper went into manufacturing for a few months but the environment was toxic so she left and was hired by the company who runs the school she graduated from, United Group Services. From there, Piper was in the shop, then assisted with safety during covid. On her first jobsite the management noticed she had a knack for computers so Piper started helping everyone with their computer problems. The project manager noticed and needed a clerk so she was quickly moved into that position. Since then, Piper has won construction woman of the year, started a scholarship for other women looking to become welders and continued to advance her career. Piper is now working on becoming the project manager. She feels like she has found where she belongs, while Piper may not be “on her tools” she still works in the field and shoulders all the wins and losses with the crew. Piper says, “We are truly a team, and I wouldn’t trade that comradery for anything!”

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