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Serving customers, employees and God
By Christie L. Chicoine
CS&T Staff Writer
POTTSTOWN — The business card of the mechanical contracting firm Bob McGreevy co-owns with wife Pinky says it all: “Bob McGreevy, P.E., Servant.”
“I serve the customers, I serve the employees and I serve God,” said McGreevy, who is a professional engineer and the company president.
C&W Mechanical, Inc., which the McGreevys purchased in March, serves industrial and commercial clients in welding, pipefitting, millwright work and rigging as well as heating, ventilating and air-conditioning. In addition, the company provides design solutions and alternatives through green engineering.
McGreevy’s engineering background and his employees’ expertise collaboratively deliver engineered mechanical solutions. “We have quality, skilled craftsmen for industry,” he said. We’re combining that with green engineering to provide sustainable solutions to customers.”
McGreevy said he and Pinky operate their business on three basic principles. “We want our customers to feel their business is better because they do business with C&W. We want our employees to feel their quality of life is better because they work for C&W. We want C&W to grow and prosper.”
Pinky, the company’s vice-president, is in charge of the company’s payroll department and serves as the human resources director. “I love working with people,” she said. “I would hope by the end of the day that any of our employees or those customers we come in contact with would feel like we’re working together. We truly want to make a difference.”
Members of St. Maximilian Kolbe Parish in West Chester, the McGreevys are the parents of six: Matt, 22; John, 21; Tim, 19; twins Andrew and Luke, 17 and Meghan, 15. At St. Maximilian Kolbe, Bob and Pinky are extraordinary ministers of holy Communion and pre-Cana instructors and have also taught CCD.
Bob was co-chair of the building committee for St. Maximilian Kolbe’s School, which was completed in 2000. Last summer, after discovering a low-cost way to make the heating-only units in the classroom also cooling units, he donated his services in the installation of air-conditioning in the school’s classrooms.
Other clients include Lasko in West Chester, National Envelope in Exton, Fres-co System USA, Inc. in Telford and Sweet Street Desserts in Reading.
Pinky has also served on the parish’s welcoming committee. On Good Friday of each year, the entire McGreevy clan does general landscaping on unused property surrounding the parish.
The couple began a courtship after meeting in 1979 in Holy Family Church in Marietta, Ga., Archdiocese of Atlanta. For three months before they met, McGreevy had prayed to the Blessed Mother “to meet a wonderful woman and actually asked for freckles, red hair and blue eyes.”
His prayers were answered in Pinky, who is a natural redhead. “That night, I told my brother that I met the girl I was going to marry,” McGreevy said. They married two years later in the same church where they met.
McGreevy, 56, is native of York County, Pa. He received a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. There, he was a running back on the football team that won the 1973 national championship.
Prior to purchasing C&W, McGreevy was a specialist in energy studies for PWI Engineering in Philadelphia.
Pinky, 51, is a native of Queens, N.Y. She received a business certificate from Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School in Huntingdon, Long Island. Pinky is also a caregiver for the elderly.
The couple moved to St. Maximilian Kolbe Parish in 1988.
“I love serving people,” McGreevy said. “I love lifting people up.” And through each C&W client who calls or stops in at the office at 2092 Pottstown Pike, “I get an opportunity to increase that circle of people to help and serve.”
For more information, call (610) 469-1030 or e-mail bob@cwmech.com.
CS&T Staff Writer Christie L. Chicoine may be reached at (215) 587-2468 or cchicoin@adphila.org.