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    Sean Ray

    Vice President, Director of Craft Workforce Development
    Sundt
    Phoenix, AZ, United States

    Sean Ray, VP of Craft Workforce Development for Sundt Construction, was recently named to the Board of Trustees for the National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER). He is also the past Chairman of the NCCER Workforce Development Committee. He has been an active member of the NCCER WFD committee for eight years. Ray is an industry veteran and passionate advocate for the skilled trades who has dedicated the latter part of his career to helping close America’s skills gap. He oversees the recruitment and training of approximately 2,000 skilled craft professionals across a dozen trades at Sundt. Ray and his team developed and implemented a successful workforce development partnership with Central Arizona College (CAC), South Mountain Community College (SMCC), and Austin Community College (ACC) that certify craft workers to NCCER standards and train students to become the next generation of construction professionals. Sundt and CAC received the 2020 Bellwether Award for their partnership. In 2025, Sundt won the SCOAR (Southeastern Owners and Associates Roundtable) Workforce Development Program of the Year award for their Fundamentals of Crew Leadership program.

    Ray entered the construction industry in 1994 as a pipefitter’s helper and quickly advanced to journeyman pipefitter, foreman, and quality control roles. He entered management in 2003 as a superintendent and has served as manager, quality manager and operations manager. Prior to the construction industry, Ray served in the United States Navy as a sonar technician on the USS Vincennes, a guided missile cruiser. When not on watch hunting submarines, he was in charge of maintenance on cooling skids for the sonar system, marking his introduction to piping systems.

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