Skanska Koch taps new general manager

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Certainly one of Skanska’s infrastructure segments may have a brand new chief come Jan. 1.

Invoice Matre, basic supervisor of Skanska Koch, will pass the reins to Michael Donohue, efficient Jan. 1, in keeping with a Dec. 15 announcement from Skanska. Matre will proceed to function senior vp whereas he strikes towards his retirement.

Donohue joined Skanska Koch in 2000 as a superintendent on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway undertaking. He has served as a undertaking supervisor, senior undertaking supervisor and vp for the agency. As Matre’s successor, Donohue will supervise total operations and lead long-term strategic planning.

“As Invoice steps except for his position as Normal Supervisor, Michael’s regular management ensures the best path ahead for our workers, prospects, and companions,” Michael Viggiano, govt vp of Skanska USA Civil’s East area, of which Skanska Koch is a component, stated within the information launch.

Matre first joined Skanska Koch, a division of Skanska that has historically worked on bridges and different infrastructure efforts, as an intern in 1982, in keeping with the information launch. That was the identical 12 months that the corporate, initially named Karl Koch Metal Erecting, was acquired by Skanska. Matre grew to become a full-time discipline engineer in 1983 and rose by means of the ranks earlier than being named basic supervisor in 2017.

Over the previous 40 years, Matre has been concerned in initiatives together with the Benjamin Franklin Bridge orthotropic decking, the primary float-in bridge at 207th Avenue, JFK AirTrain, the 9/11 restoration and cleanup and the Bayonne Bridge, per the information launch. 

Whereas below Matre’s management, the corporate re-entered the Philadelphia market and expanded its enterprise, per the information launch.

The succession plan falls right into a sample of different strikes Skanska has made this 12 months. Leo Sinicin, the CFO of Skanska USA, will retire efficient Dec. 31 and be succeeded by Dan DeRooy, the present vp of finance for Skanska USA Constructing, the corporate introduced final month.

In October, the builder tapped Jenny Chandler Graham as its govt vp and chief technique officer, and picked Tieg Murray Rustam as its vp of market technique and inventive providers. Both promotions fall inside its U.S. constructing operations.