Company’s Heavy Training Investment Pays Off

When Lawrence Snow established Valley Plumbing and Drain Cleaning in suburban Salt Lake City in 2010, one of his goals was to be the best plumbing outfit in the area — a place with such a good reputation that technicians would want to work there. “I didn’t want to be the largest company,” Snow says. “I wanted to build a company where employees would say, ’I’m proud to work for Valley Plumbing.’”To accomplish that, the company, owned by Snow; his two sons, Rob and Corry; and his son-in-law, Brett Reeves, invests heavily in training technicians. That includes not only technical training