Pioneer Construction

Pioneer Construction is a Grand Rapids, Mich., general contractor with roots in 1933, when Dutch-born carpenter Earl Beckering Sr. founded Beckering Construction Company. His son renamed it Pioneer in 1962. It’s still a self-performing builder, with its own crews for steel and precast erection, and it bills itself as one of West Michigan’s largest full-service construction employers. Work spans manufacturing, healthcare, aviation, schools, multifamily and parking structures across the continental U.S. The newest job on the books is Autocam Medical’s $70 million, 100,000-square-foot orthopedic implant plant in Warsaw, Ind., which opened Nov. 9 about ten months after groundbreaking. Pioneer’s built for Autocam before and won an ABC Western Michigan award for it in 2023, so this one’s a repeat client.