Profile
He counted pipe welds before
counting revenue.
Andrew Hosler runs Performance Mechanical, Inc. (PMI) from Pittsburg, California - a city built on heavy industry, straddling the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, where refineries and chemical plants line the waterfront. His office overlooks the kind of landscape his crews work in daily: industrial infrastructure that powers Northern California's economy and demands the kind of precision most contractors can't deliver.
PMI has been at it since 1985, long before Hosler arrived. When EMCOR Group acquired the company in 2007 - at annual revenues around $90 million - it signaled that PMI had crossed a threshold from regional contractor to serious industrial player. Hosler's job is to keep it there and push further.
"We operate as a client-focused organization committed to long-term partnerships built on performance, safety, and craftsmanship."
Andrew Hosler - Performance Mechanical, Inc.
What makes PMI distinctive isn't just the licenses or the size - it's the combination. PMI runs three fabrication shops across California totaling over 32,000 square feet. Their welders carry ASME and NBIC code stamps. Their estimators work with BIM. Their field crews use robotic total stations and 3D laser scanning on active industrial sites. In an industry where many contractors still rely on paper drawings and gut instinct, PMI operates like a technology firm that happens to employ pipefitters and boilermakers.
Hosler's path to the executive suite was hands-on by design. He started on marine terminal maintenance crews - the kind of work that means cold mornings, confined spaces, and zero margin for error near waterfront fuel storage infrastructure. He moved through project management, then became Chief Estimator at a time when PMI was bidding up to $1 billion in annual work. Between 2010 and 2012, he developed and managed over $125 million in project work personally.
The Chief Estimator role is where careers either get stuck or expand. Hosler expanded - into Vice President of Pre-Construction, then to the top. His education at California State University, Chico in Construction Management gave him the framework; the field gave him the instincts.
Today, Hosler oversees three Vice Presidents - Support Services, Operations, and Controller - along with operations managers across the company's California and Hawaii footprint. The company holds contractor licenses in California (Type A, B, C36), Hawaii (Type A, B, C4), and Nevada (Type A). For clients in complex industrial markets, the multi-state licensing is rarely an afterthought.
