Member Spotlight - Tony Enger

This month’s Member Spotlight features Tony Enger of Harrison Electric, Inc. in Plymouth, MN. Harrison Electric has been in business since 1985 and an MEA member since 1994. Tony is a recent past chair of the MEA board. 2018 is a special year, celebrating 20 years since Tony and his business partner, John Harrison, started acquiring ownership of the shop. In that time, Harrison Electric has served over 41,000 unique clients. When he’s not running the business, Tony can be found spending time with his wife Gretchen and two daughters Bella and Lexi.

Tell us about your business model.
We do almost 100% residential service work. The motto has always been keeping things simple: Take care of one customer at a time; take care of the clients need before moving on to the next client and try to not have too many irons in the fire. We’re not perfect but can always strive to be better. Our clients have to win, our employees have to win, and if we take care of both, the company will succeed. It’s a win-win-win for everyone. Our growth happens by doing a fantastic job with our clients and they pass that along in future referrals. Many times we work for generations of the same family.

You invest a lot of time training your employees in various aspects of the business. Tell us about the company values at Harrison Electric.
We’ve never said no to training & education if something is interesting to one of our employees. We’ve been fortunate enough to work with some of the industry greats and even have videos going back to the old days on VHS. In addition to the required technical training, we’ve offered management training, coaching, professional electrical training and customer service.  By training our employees, we are investing in the company.

What is your favorite part of MEA?
MEA keeps us contractors on board and up to date with all of the industry stuff we wouldn’t otherwise see. From Gov’t Action, OSHA regulation and industry compliance, they’ve got us covered.