PRIDE Spotlights: Ron Roellig and Keeley Civil Infrastructure
Claire Sauer • February 24, 2025
At Keeley, we are driven by our mission and core values and these core values guide every decision. Each value has its own meaning for everyone, but this common ground allows us to come together and foster a culture of support, safety, well-being, and family. We sat down with Ron Roellig, Executive Vice President of Civil, to discuss our core values and how he sees them lived out every day amongst his team.
PEOPLE
– Don Recar exemplifies People in the way he goes above and beyond for his team members. When he saw a team member personally struggling, he put business aside and showed empathy by reaching out and connecting him with those that could help and provide the proper resources. This team member even expressed gratitude about how Keeley (and Don) goes above and beyond for Keeley’ns.
RESPECT
– At August’s Civil STP, the entire Civil Day Two team had open and honest dialogue while still showing respect to each other when asking tough questions and challenging each other. This was the first STP with new leadership in place and it was collaborative, open-minded day. Everyone provided strategic, constructive criticism which only allows for growth. If we fail to give constructive criticism, we are failing our team members and ourselves. Throughout the day, everyone listened intently and respected opinions and differing perspectives. Everyone left with clear APs, excitement for what’s to come, and a renewed energy. After the STP, we had a record-breaking month of August and I truly believe this STP set the tone for this new chapter of Keeley Civil.
INTEGRITY
– Jason Forney and the team at the Coffeen Solar Farm were facing adversity with a team member who experienced an injury on the project. Jason followed Keeley’s protocol and immediately got the team member the care he needed. However, our client indicated that we had not followed their protocol for notification. Jason, as the Keeley onsite Supervisor, owned the failure and committed to improvement moving forward doing Whatever It Takes for Safety.
DISCIPLINE
– The Estimating Team had been feeling extreme pressure in the first and second quarters of 2024 to find and secure new projects after experiencing a slow third and fourth quarter for bidding in 2023. They dealt with this pressure phenomenally and didn’t let bid declines get them down. The team stayed disciplined and continued to put forth their best effort. By remaining steadfast and avoiding panic buying, they have set up a successful path for the end of 2024 into 2025. Because of their hard work, we have a record-breaking year of backlog going into 2025!
EMPOWERMENT
– Our first example of Empowerment is Tim Eagan. Tim and his entire solar farm project teams developed solid work plans outlining personnel, equipment, and strategy for exemplary execution of work on multiple solar farm projects, including additional opportunities with a new client. They have achieved tremendous success in this market and we now have more resources on these jobs than any other project. This focus on growth in the solar farm market allows us to gain more experience and bid more work across the nation. Our second example of Empowerment is John Stackpole. With very little guidance or oversight, John continues to execute and deliver impactful results, thus opening up doors for emerging markets and new clients. What he has done for Civil Infrastructure by kicking down doors, fostering meaningful conversations, and attacking opportunities with an open mind is invaluable. He always goes above and beyond for our team, is quick to get in front of clients, and quick to resolve issues.
PRIDE
– Earlier this year, Devon Swan was asked to take over a difficult project in Emporia, KS that had fallen behind schedule and budget. Without hesitation, Devon accepted the challenges and went on the road. Facing a monumental task, Devon took over the project and implemented important changes regarding the direction of the project and the mindset of the client. Devon led his team and ultimately recovered almost three weeks of schedule delays while still keeping the team safe during extended days and weeks – working seven days a week and sometimes 14-16 hour days. Grueling schedules such as this can cause fatigue and stress, but Devon prioritize safety and kept every single team member safe.
We are proud of every single member of the Keeley Civil Infrastructure team for living out our core values and exceeding expectations!
Our User Experience, Accounting, People Operations, Project Controls, and CMiC teams continue to work hard to get the initial CMiC integrations across the finish line as quickly as possible. The integrations are incredibly complex, and the UX has battled through numerous challenges to get these integrations up and running. Please see below for some important updates regarding the integrations that are currently underway – including what those integrations will entail once complete. If you have specific questions regarding integrations or how they impact you, please reach out to the Project Controls team within your business unit. Concur Integration Live as of Friday 6/13 Good news – the Concur integration is officially up and running! Keeley’ns should be able to once again access to Concur to code & approve expenses. The integration between Concur and CMiC will ensure job numbers and cost codes in Concur match the information in CMiC for accurate coding. The integration runs nightly, so if a job, cost code, or category is set up, it will be available the next day. The Project Controls team will set up any cost codes that are missing on the appropriate jobs in CMiC. Please code and approve all expenses in Concur ASAP to help us in getting caught up from the extended dark period! Single Sign On (SSO) Anticipated Rollout June 19 As of next Thursday, June 19, we will be rolling out SSO to all CMiC users. This means that the login credentials you created to log into CMiC will be overridden by your Microsoft 365 SSO login (the same username & password as your other Keeley accounts). All users will receive an email the morning of the launch with further instructions for signing into CMiC using SSO. Salesforce Anticipated Rollout: Mid-June As some may know, the Salesforce integration was launched last week – but after experiencing some issues with data moving from CMiC into Salesforce, the integration was shut off until the issue is resolved. The Salesforce integration with CMiC will share opportunity information between the two systems – meaning an opportunity created in Salesforce will be shared to CMiC. It will also share job information (such as job number) that is updated in CMiC to Salesforce once a job is initiated. The current integration will NOT transfer opportunities that are created in CMiC into Salesforce. The preferred place to create opportunities is Salesforce, and any new opportunities that are created in CMiC will not appear in Salesforce. Stay tuned for any additional info you need to know regarding the Salesforce integration as it is (re)launched. UKG Anticipated Rollout: Mid-July The integration between UKG and CMiC is quite intense… Many functions being completed in UKG need to be automatically pushed into CMiC – employee creation, direct deposit updates, tax information, etc. This integration does just that! Currently, this information is being shared through manual data entry. This integration will be a major step forward for our Payroll, People Operations, and IT teams! Redlist Anticipated Rollout: Late June-Early July Redlist is used to track equipment information as well as time entry for the Fleet team to charge time to trucks and equipment. The integration between CMiC and Redlist will ensure that all job information is correct in Redlist, and that all equipment information is correct in CMiC. It will also automatically share the time entry data from Redlist to CMiC for Payroll processing. Fieldpoint Anticipated Rollout: Mid-Late June The Paving group uses Fieldpoint for work order management and time entry within the national/maintenance teams. This integration will push time entry data from Fieldpoint into CMiC as well as employee data from CMiC into Fieldpoint. It will also send work order information from Fieldpoint to create jobs in CMiC. The only remaining piece of this integration that is not yet complete is the automatic transfer of time entry data from Fieldpoint into CMiC – which is expected mid-late June.
Friday, May 30th | The CMiC team has officially gotten POs working in the system! The Accounting team also worked hard yesterday to push through roughly 1,000 invoices into users’ queues! However, any PO invoices entered yesterday were not able to be tied to a PO due to the issues we were previously experiencing. There are roughly another 3,000 invoices remaining to be entered and assigned to users. With the PO issue fixed, these 3,000 should now be able to be entered into the system properly. WHAT THIS MEANS FOR USERS: There will be some PO invoices in your queue in CMiC (the ones entered yesterday) that will need to be coded & approved following the temporary process put in place on Wednesday – code the invoice and enter the PO number as a comment on the invoice. This process will ensure the Accounting team can properly tie that invoice to the PO on the back-end. If your PO invoice comes over without any automatic coding, this is the process you will follow. For any PO invoices entered beginning today, the invoice should already be automatically coded according to the PO. For these invoices, you’ll just check for accuracy and then approve. For additional training resources regarding how to code & approve invoices, visit the Keeley’n Hub. If you have any questions or need direct support on AP coding & approval, please contact the Project Controls team via your CMiC Teams Chats, or the Project Accountants for your Business Unit. Wednesday May 28th | , CMiC is still not working as intended as it relates to quantities on PO invoices. This has resulted in a delay in getting PO invoices uploaded into CMiC and into users’ queues – which impacts both AP and T&M billings. In order to get vendors & partners paid in a timely manner (according to our terms & contracts), as well as get T&M bills out as soon as possible, we are going to move forward with uploading PO invoices into CMiC without tying them directly to a PO – essentially turning them into Misc invoices. WHAT THIS MEANS FOR USERS: There will be a slight temporary change to our process. Effective immediately, all PO invoices should be treated as Misc invoices. We are working diligently to get CMiC working properly and begin the normal process ASAP, but in the interim users should follow the same coding & approval process for PO invoices as you do for Misc invoices – with the additional step of adding the PO number as a comment on the invoice. As of Wednesday evening May 28th, users will start seeing more invoices hit your queues to code and approve. Over the next week, please make sure you are coding & approving invoices as quickly as possible while we get caught up on AP & AR in CMiC. You can follow the below steps to complete this. Your first step is to code the invoice appropriately – this will be the case whether your invoice is for a PO or not. If your invoice IS for a PO – you should enter the associated PO number as a comment on the invoice. Once coded and the PO number entered in the comments, you can approve your invoice. If you have any questions or need direct support on AP coding & approval, please contact the Project Controls team via your CMiC Teams Chats, or the Project Accountants for your Business Unit. We appreciate your patience and flexibility as we ensure we are continuing to take care of our people and our partners throughout this massive change.
Until the integration between CMiC and Concur is fully up and running, Keeley’ns should continue to not use Concur. While Concur is unavailable, please do not code or submit any expenses. Once the integration is ready, Keeley’ns will be submitting April and May expenses together in the same report as we get caught up from the blackout period. We expect the integration to be ready by the end of the month. Once in Concur, you’ll note that the coding has been changed to now match CMiC: There is no longer an ‘Extra’ field. Work orders will now be added to the Job #. Equipment numbers will have an extra “0” (ex: TK-400 is now TK-0400). Please continue to stay out of Concur until you receive the green light that the integration is up and running and that the system is ready for use. You can reach out to the Accounting Team with any questions.