MEET THE TEAM

Senior Vice President - ACME Constructors

Lee Hahnel leads the ACME Constructors pre-construction and building construction management team. His primary responsibility is to expand existing relationships and to identify and foster new relationships in the industrial sector of the company’s business. Lee not only oversees the client relationships, he also is responsible for bid preparation and project planning for ACME’s industrial clients.

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Management Characteristics & Qualities

• 25 years of experience in building construction

• Effectively communicates at the field and client levels

• Wide-ranging field experience allowing him to understand field issues and recommend solutions

• Proven project manager and scheduler

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Professional Experience

Lee has over 25 years of experience as a project manager overseeing small and large construction projects. His assignments covered a variety of areas including retail development, commercial construction, interior build outs, and industrial project management.

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Leeʼs expertise allows ACME Constructors to provide an additional level of customer service on construction management assignments. Lee will ensure that ACME delivers effectively on all of its projects.

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Responsibilities

Lee is responsible for day-to-day client management as well as bringing new business opportunities to the company.

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Key Clients

• ICL Performance Products—St. Louis, MO

• Henkel Consumer Goods—St. Louis, MO

• Mississippi Lime Company—St. Genevieve, MO

• Lhoist—St. Genevieve, MO

• Bunge Corporation—St. Louis, MO

• Monsanto Company—St. Louis, MO

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Education

Lee earned a Bachelor of Science—Civil Engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, MO. He is currently pursuing a Masters of Urban Planning and Real Estate Development from Saint Louis University in St. Louis, MO.

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Community Involvement

Lee supports a number of community organizations including:

• St. Louis Council of Construction Consumers

• Little Sisters of the Poor

• St. Gabriel the Archangel Church ACTS Group​

Jason leads our mid-Missouri office. His goal is to work with customers and find a specific solution to help each customer become more efficient in their production facilities. Projects Jason has been apart of range from a minor mechanical failure repair to a turn-key production facility expansion and equipment installation. Jason’s focus is to bring ACME Constructors' outstanding industrial service to the many industrial users in Mid-Missouri.

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Management Characteristics & Qualities

• Experience in leading multi-million dollar projects

• Extensive industrial and heavy civil experience

• Experience in managing multiple projects consecutively

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Professional Experience

Prior to joining ACME, Jason was an area manager for APAC in Columbia, MO where he was heavily involved in estimating, operations, and project management. Prior to that, he worked as a superintendent and project manager for various industrial contractors and completed work throughout the US.

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Responsibilities

Leading the mid-Missouri office, Jason develops new opportunities in mid-Missouri while serving existing clients. He oversees the successful execution of all projects out of the Columbia, MO office.

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Key Clients

• Unilever—Jefferson City, MO

• Coca-Cola—Warrenton, MO

• Quaker Oats—Jefferson City, MO

• Whiting Turner—Baltimore, MD

• Daddy Rays Cookies—Moscow Mills, MO

• Certainteed—multiple locations

• ADM Grain Company—Mid-Missouri Plants

• Monsanto/Bayer—multiple locations (MO, IA, NE)

• Beyond Meat—multiple locations (MO)

• Multiple conveyor suppliers

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Education

Jason earned a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Missouri in Rolla, MO.

Project Director

Lee Krueger oversees ACME Constructor’s structural steel projects, as well as various conveying and material handling projects. He is involved in assisting clients from project inception through commissioning. Lee’s vast experience in the nuances of industrial manufacturing facilities is a valuable asset. Working in and around existing and ongoing operations during the implementation of a project requires a certain finesse at which Lee excels.

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Management Characteristics & Qualities

• Highly detail oriented and quality focused management approach

• Always works in the client’s best interest to provide the best possible value

• Extensive design experience provides the technical knowledge base to make competent field recommendations

• Understands constraints of plant operations and works within them to accomplish client goals

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Professional Experience

Prior to joining ACME, Lee was a manufacturing and process manager with a large pharmaceutical company. In this role, he was responsible for product inspection, labeling, and packaging a variety of products. This experience included overseeing several plant and line expansions. Lee was also a product line manager with Barry-Wehmiller. In this role he successfully executed complicated food and beverage projects around the world.

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During his tenure at ACME, Lee has led our food and beverage division, airport conveying installation team, machining and fabrication division, and material handling project team and now leads our ironworker division. Lee’s attention to detail and thorough planning have allowed each discipline to prosper under his leadership.

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Key Clients

• Ameren—St. Louis, MO

• BSI Constructors—St. Louis, MO

• McCarthy—St. Louis, MO

• RD Lawrence—Springfield, IL

• Tarlton—St. Louis, MO

• United Construction—St. Louis, MO

• Wilson’s Structural Steel—St. Louis, MO

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Education

Lee earned a Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, MO.

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Community Involvement

• Member of Sacred Heart Parish—Valley Park, MO

• Volunteer for CYC Sports

• Member of ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)