The quality of a company can be measured by its values. Dillard Smith with Quanta Services stepped outside the traditional contractors' isolated business model believing that safety collaboration with our competitors would improve safety for all of our employees and broadly benefit the utility industry. And it did.
Our driving principle is the value of the employee. The outcome of that intrinsic value has reduced the number of fatalities and injuries in the entire utility industry.
The value of safety at Dillard Smith has created a work environment that places the highest value on the health and welfare of our employees, our customers and the communities where we live and work.
Dillard Smith Construction's reputation for excellence includes our safety performance. Safety is an integral part of every project.
Your project will be staffed by a contingent of professionals with expertise in project management, project execution and project safety.
We employ the best experts in the field investing time and resources in a dynamic safety program that includes training, field audits and broad spectrum analysis designed to continually improve our safety performance.
Ever changing demands are met with continual commitment to training recognizing that a well trained workforce is as valid today as it was in 1947.
William Dillard Smith was born on December 25, 1910 in Dunlap, Tennessee. He earned a degree in electrical engineering in 1934 and began his career in the electric utility industry with the Tennessee Electric Power Company. He played a vital role in the early electrification of the Tennessee Valley and established many lasting relationships with utility executives throughout Eastern Tennessee. He used this network of contacts and his knowledge of the industry to found Dillard Smith Construction Company in 1947.
With a pickup truck and a vision, he founded his company with the goal of becoming a quality provider of services to the electric utility industry. Mr. Smith retired in 1989 after more than 55 years in the industry and turned the day-to-day operations of the company over to his son, Grady Turner Smith. During his nearly 20 year tenure, Turner continued to grow the company and was very active and influential on industry boards that provide for employee health and retirement benefits.
For more than half a century, Dillard Smith the Company continues to operate under the guiding principles established by Dillard Smith the Man. Employees and customers are treated as friends and we continue to conduct business with the same honesty and integrity that have always been synonymous with the Dillard Smith name.
Although Mr. Smith relinquished direct control of the company more than 20 years ago, one question remains a constant when important decisions are
being discussed among our current senior managers. That question is: "What would Dillard do?" We still think that the successes of Dillard Smith the Company is directly attributable to the guiding principles established by Dillard Smith the Man and we continue to adhere to these principles.
