Employee Stories

Kathy

I remember well when I was interviewed for a job at Windemuller and was concerned about the string of short-term jobs on my resume. That was 1989. This year, I’m celebrating 35 years with the company. Windemuller just fit. I found my forever home. Over …

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Tim

You could say electrical work has been in my blood for most of my life. I started out working summers for a family friend with a small residential electrical contracting business. I started changing light bulbs and climbing into attics when I was 14, and …

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Shannon

Sometimes I joke that I used to guard criminals, and now I guard the front door – but it’s mostly true! I was a criminal justice major in college with every intention of becoming a police officer.  And, earlier in my professional life, I did …

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Todd

I was winding down my college career when a friend who was an electrician asked me if I might be interested in telecommunications work. Even though I knew absolutely nothing about the field, I decided I had nothing to lose – and everything to learn. …

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Tom

For as long as I can remember, I’ve liked to build stuff and see things take shape. Even now when I’m driving, I’ll still rubberneck any project under way. I first got into the electrical trade helping with wiring houses, and later went to work …

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Andy

It’s funny where life takes you. After high school, I headed to college to study education. I wanted to be a teacher – a math teacher, specifically. But college just didn’t work for me. Instead, I did a stint in the Navy and then whipped …

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Ken D.

The better part of my 40-year work life has been in the communications field. One of the things I’ve enjoyed the most is being out in the field and at different locations, rather than going to the same office every single day. Windemuller is only …

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Shannon M.

I started in the communications field back in 1999 and for 20 years worked first as an installer and then as a foreman. I’ve always been mechanically inclined and thanks to a friend who initially got me into this line of work it has always …

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Darin A.

More than 20 years ago, I decided to give electrical work a try. I was given some good opportunities to learn the trade – first in residential construction with my dad and then with small shops also doing the commercial and industrial sides of the …

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Kylee L.

You never know where a degree in sports management may take you. For me, it led to a love of facilities management and a curiosity to explore how my varied interests could combine and lead to a really fulfilling career. My interest in the trades …

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Jason B.

I originally went to school to be an accountant. But I wasn’t quite ready to be in an office setting back then and found working with my hands and being outside was what I loved. I took a job at Windemuller because I was looking …

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Drew S.

My story with Windemuller began in 2014. I have always been interested in computers and technology. I remember building my first gaming PC with my childhood friend and his dad and having LAN parties at their house playing Battlefield 1942 and Medal of Honor. Initially, …

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Joe F.

I was given a unique opportunity and I took a chance. I was a brand new, green apprentice when I started at Windemuller in 2019. I had graduated from high school a year earlier, during which I had participated in a co-op program in HVAC. …

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Devon K.

I’ve always been interested in computers, starting from childhood playing video games. That turned into figuring out how to solve problems, which turned into modding games and upgrading computers. It snowballed from there. During high school in Leland, I attended the TBA Career Tech Center …

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Jacob J.

When I was in high school, I started working with a friend of my dad’s who was a residential builder. I liked it enough that after graduation I got a job working for a guy doing small house remodels with a business he operated out …

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Makenzi O.

What do you do when the traditional college path isn’t the right path for you? That was a question I had to answer for myself as I stood on the cusp of my high school graduation. At the time, I had a mailbox full of …

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Christian M.

26 years ago, I took a job at Windemuller. At the time, I was trying to find a new path for myself. While I’d been exposed to the trades in high school – through an innovative building trades class where we literally built houses from …

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Scot DeYoung

I always enjoyed doing work that I could see, so my journey into the construction industry followed an unusual path. I went off to college with the goal of becoming an electrical engineer. While obtaining that electrical engineering degree, I felt more compelled than ever …

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Homer C.

When I came to Windemuller in 2014, I was a seasoned IT professional though I took a different path to get there. I’d graduated from college with a degree in design, and spent years designing everything from fuel systems for heavy trucks to machinery for …

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Tyler R.

Windemuller changed my life. Before I came here, I wasn’t even working in the skilled trades. Instead, I was a manager at a small farm store called Family Farm & Home. One day, one of my stockers – and someone who I’d come to be …

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Andy B.

I still remember going to college in the 1990s and whiling away my time on general education classes, not really sure what kind of career I wanted to aim for. More exciting to me than the classroom were the multiple jobs I had on the …

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Devin Hill

In the construction trades, almost everyone has a “close call” or two: times where they could have been seriously hurt, if not even killed. Too often in this industry, those types of events are viewed as inevitabilities, as things that everyone has to deal with. …

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Pat M.

From being a factory worker, to landing a job as a communications installer, to becoming someone who knows just about everything there is to know about traffic lights, my career has taken some interesting and unexpected turns over the years. I spent the first decade …

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Matt W.

I grew up in a house where the skilled trades were a way of life, so it’s no surprise that’s where I ended up. My dad owned his own construction company, and I was always interested in following in his footsteps in some fashion. When …

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Kelly B.

Even growing up, I knew I loved electrical work. As a teenager, I used to build my own control panels next to my bed, so I could control everything in the room without even having to get up. Still, despite my dabbling, I never seriously …

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Steve Alles

I was a teenager in the summer of 1994 when I started my first job for Windemuller. At that time, my grandpa, uncles, and dad were all involved in the business in various roles. I worked out in the warehouse of the company’s Grandville office, …

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Stephanie L.

“When I graduated from high school, I wasn’t sure what path to take. I was college-bound, headed to Grand Valley State University; I knew that much. What I didn’t know was what kind of career I wanted to aim for, or even what I wanted …

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Jeff N.

“From a very young age, it was pretty much a foregone conclusion that I would end up working in the electrical trades. My dad was a radio engineer, and I learned all about electrical from working alongside him as a kid. In college, I worked …

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Ryan S.

“I came to Windemuller 15 years ago because I realized I needed a career instead of just a job. I’d been working in a warehouse, and even at just 22 years old, I was maxed out in terms of pay and career advancement. I knew …

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Nathanael M.

“My story in the electrical trades started back in high school, when I enrolled as a student in the CNET program (CNET stands for “Computers, Networking, and Electronics Technology”) at the Career Technical Center in Cadillac, Michigan. My initial thought, at the time, was that …

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