Ollier Masonry

Ollier Masonry Inc., or OMI, was founded in 1976 by Jeff Ollier. With a humble beginning, Jeff started his company with a small investment, a few pieces of equipment, and lots of hard work. After gaining experience with residential and small jobs, OMI ventured into commercial work in 1978, starting with McDonald's restaurants. Over the years, the company has grown and expanded its services to include hospitals, factories, warehouses, parking garages, apartments, schools, athletic facilities, low-rise, and high-rise buildings. During the McDonald's days, Jeff and his crew traveled extensively, including to Texas. Today, the company aims to keep its workload within an hour's drive from the Batesville, Indiana office.

Estimating

Ollier Masonry Inc. uses Tradesmen's Software for all estimating. This tool allows us to walk an owner, architect, or general contractor through their building, identifying possible conflicts and coordination issues with the construction team. While this is not BIM, it provides some of the benefits that BIM strives to accomplish. We are currently pursuing BIM capabilities.

Our History

One of the key ways we believe we accomplish this is through retaining quality employees. We do not "hire and fire" the way many masonry companies do. By retaining employees, our superintendents know the employee's skill level, who they work best with, and how to get the best production from them. Our employees also work better as a team, because they know the person next to them. As you know, construction work can be dangerous if the proper safety measures are not followed. The more teamwork we can foster, the safer the job is. Our average employee retention for masons is over fifteen years.

OMI trains its employees extensively. All of our foremen have 30-Hour OSHA credentials and 100% of our employees have 10-Hour OSHA credentials. Jason Young, our Safety director, and Paul Oldham, our President both have the OSHA 500 credentials to teach 10-Hour and 30-Hour classes internally.

In 2006, the company started another new phase. Mary Ollier became President and controlling interest in the company along with the hiring Paul Oldham Project Manager/ Estimator. It was time to start a transition of the company and develop the next ownership team. The office moved, from above Jeff and Mary's garage, to a location in Downtown Batesville. From here the company grew again into performing more work each year growing from 20 employees to over 60 employees. With this growth new positions were needed in the management of the company, Jason Young after working in the field as a mason/ superintendent was promoted into an Estimator/ Project Manager position. After spending time in these positions, along with the growth of the company, and its commitment to Safety, Jason took on the position of Safety Director/ Logistics Manager. With Mary's retirement at the end of 2014, Paul Oldham became President of Ollier Masonry Inc.

We are committed to giving our customers quality, safety, and professionalism unequaled in the masonry profession.

Sincerely,

Paul S. Oldham

President