Nicholas Altstatt

Position

Panel Shop Supervisor

At BCU Since

2017

Education/Experience

After graduating top of his class in precision machining, tool and die design, as well as drafting and design at the West Holmes-Ashland County Career Center, he worked for several years in an automotive stamping plant and took part in the full conversion from a manually loaded press line to a fully automated press line with Fanuc robots. Following, he worked for 10 years with an OEM machine company for material handling, mainly focused on the tire and rubber industry

What was your first job?

Server/Busboy for a local restaurant in Parkman, Ohio

What's something you're proud of achieving/accomplishing while here at BCU?

Nick is most proud of completing course training in estimation that is used to complete bids for nation-wide and sometimes world-wide projects

What's the best advice you've received/heard?

"Change your thinking, change your life. Your word is your bond and it is truly the only thing we have in life that is ours. The value of that statement is only determined by yourself"

What advice would you give your younger-self?

"Listen more than you speak"

What three things best describe BCU?

Driven by owners who really care about the outcome of the finished project, not the bottom line, expanding at an exponential rate and always finding solutions

What's something you think everyone should try once?

Go hunting

What might people not know about you?

Nick loves woodworking!