The Pipeline Podcast

Real stories from the shop floor and the job site. The Pipeline Podcast (DSI, a Quanta Services Company) talks shop, leadership, careers, and the trades with the people living it every day. 🔧dsi.us | 📷@pipelinepodcastdsi | 📧 pipelinepodcastdsi@gmail.com

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  Episode #6

  Duct VS Pipe — Thad & Mike on Career Growth, Mentorship & the "Rooster" Strategy

  Aug 27, 20261h 10mS1

  <p>For the first time on the show, pipe and sheet metal sit down together — Thad Fountain (Pipe Labor Manager, Dallas/Utah) and Mike Ely (23-year DSI veteran) join to talk shop, career growth, and what it really takes to build a career in the trades.Mike traces his path from apprentice to superintendent — including a "three-week trip" to Utah that turned into 13 months and launched his supervision career. Thad shares his own story of graduating high school on a Tuesday and welding by Wednesday, going on to travel and weld internationally before landing at DSI in 2019 and climbing to labo...

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  Episode #5

  Field Experience, AI, and the Future of Project Management with Jade & Thomas

  Aug 13, 202656 minS1

  <p>This episode dives into project management, pre-construction, and the growing role of AI at DSI, with guests Jade Martinez and Thomas Trask.Jade shares her path to DSI — starting as a project coordinator with no construction background, briefly leaving to pursue nursing, and returning to a brand-new role where she now works almost exclusively with AI to build tools and programs for DSI's design teams. Thomas talks about his journey from a high-school-and-college internship at DSI, to years in oil and gas project management, to landing back at DSI in 2018 to run high-profile commercial jobs — including a large water park...

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  Episode #4

  Building the OSM Division — James & Matt on Modular, Prefabrication & Scaling DSI

  Jul 30, 20261h 20mS1

  <p>This episode dives into the origin story and growth of DSI's Offsite Manufacturing (OSM) and modular divisions with James Martinez (Modular & Industrial Group) and Matt Lucas — two of the people who helped build it from the ground up.</p><p>James and Matt trace their own paths into DSI — from being recruited at a college bar to working as a project manager on brutal, high-stakes jobs — before walking through how OSM actually got started: a cold-contact opportunity with an automobile manufacturer, a scramble to fly a team to California with 3D scanners in hand, and building the very first module...

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  Episode #3

  Three Paths Into the Trades — Chelsea, Lainey & Jude on Career Changes, the Union, and Life at DSI

  Jul 20, 20261h 5mS1

  <p>This episode brings three voices from DSI's Houston shops into the studio: Chelsea, Lainey, and Jude — each with a completely different road into the trades.Chelsea shares her journey from working in restaurants and specialty food (and even a stint as a cheese monger) to chasing a childhood dream of construction after a career counselor once told her it wasn't in the cards. Lainey — dubbed the "Nevada Queen" — talks about growing up on a farm, going through welding school, and landing her first interview with none other than Mike Nobles himself. And Jude walks through an incredible path from reposs...

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  Episode #2

  33 Years in the Trade — Leadership, Mentorship & Robotic Welding with Mike Nobles

  Jul 20, 20261h 8mS1

  <p>In this episode, we sit down with Mike Nobles, one of DSI's labor managers in Houston, for a wide-ranging conversation about a career that started as a "two-week" TIG welding job on a semiconductor site — and turned into 33 years in the industry.Mike shares his journey from apprentice union welder to superintendent to labor manager, working on everything from clean rooms and mission-critical data centers to hospitals, schools, and a recently built lithium refinery. He opens up about the leadership lessons that shaped him — including a memorable story about "leading by example" early in his career — and talks about engage...

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