Blue Mountain keeps estimating, field execution, and ownership in the same loop. When the weather changes, a scope gap shows up, or the site needs a fast decision, you get direct owner-level communication instead of waiting through a long corporate chain — and the person who priced the work is the same one standing behind it in the field.
A family business, built on civil roots.
Concrete and site-prep experience that grew into utility-scale solar site work across Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Virginia.
Why that matters on your job
Owners at the table, not at the end of a phone chain.
Our story
From a concrete sub to running the whole job.
The Smith family has been in concrete since John Smith's father immigrated from Ireland in the 1930s and started a company of his own. John grew up in the trade and worked for his father, then carried the family business forward alongside his brother. Eventually he broke off on his own to found Blue Mountain Construction — the same work he'd known his whole life: concrete and general site work, the kind of civil contracting that builds parking lots, basins, pads, and pipelines. That civil-first field judgment now carries into utility-scale solar site work.
John and Jason McConnell met through the industry, each regarding the other's work highly long before they ever worked together. They were friends first, the kind who'd call to sanity-check a civil scope or a bid that was keeping one of them up at night. As Jason took on more authority over which subs got the work, he started bringing Blue Mountain in on concrete and pieces of the civil scope — John had the equipment, the crews, and the know-how.
One example from the pre-solar years: a pipeline job where Jason and Blue Mountain were both on site, separately — Jason running the civil scope for the pipeline company, Blue Mountain subbing the concrete. There are years of energy and site-development work like that behind the company, all of it predating solar.
Eventually it just made sense to do together what they were already doing apart. John already had the business, so partnering up was a matter of bringing Jason in. From there, the same crews that once poured a single foundation grew into a contractor that can run an entire site and act as the GC when a job needs one.
Kevin Smith grew up on the family's concrete crews — working weekends from age ten, finishing concrete through high school, moving up from laborer to operator to foreman — then studied finance and left for the securities world. A few years there proved what he already suspected: he needed work where he could see the fruits of his labor. He came back to Blue Mountain on the business side, bringing the finance training with him, and he's loved it ever since.
Leadership
Meet the team.
A classic family business means a real person responds. Call Blue Mountain and you get an owner — three of them, each covering a different side of the job.
JS
Founder / Owner
John Smith
Founded the companyBuilt Blue Mountain after breaking off from the family concrete business he ran with his brother. The concrete and site-prep expertise he brought is the foundation the whole operation stands on — and the source of its practical jobsite judgment.
JM
VP of Construction
Jason McConnell
Added the civil scopeRan civil work in the energy world for years, with John's crews as his trusted sub. Today he owns the bids, the scopes, and the field plan — the schedule, the crews, and the day-to-day execution that keeps a site on track.
KS
Head of Operations
Kevin Smith
Runs finance & operationsThe business side of the business: budgets, the books, and the communication that keep crews moving and every job accounted for. His years in finance taught him how the people funding a project judge a contractor — and what earns their trust.
How the pieces came together
“Why are we working separately?”
The question that settled it. The short version of how the company got here:
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Roots
Concrete & site prep
Foundations, pads, and the equipment to do it right.
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Energy
Pipeline-era site work
Civil and concrete scopes across the energy world.
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Solar
Renewable-energy sites
The same civil work, now on utility-scale solar sites.
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Today
Full-site execution
Crews that can take a site from clearing to closeout.
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Heavy civil environmental construction
Three careers working as one team — civil-first site work with the discipline to run compliance-heavy renewable-energy jobs.
Want proof?
The best proof of how we work is the work itself. And when you're ready to talk, we're easy to reach.
See our project results