McCaffety Electric is a name people know and trust, and that’s no surprise. This year, they’re celebrating 61 years of doing business. In 1962, when Eugene McCaffety and his wife Shirley came to Huntsville, they started the business in back of their home on Powell Street.  With his 1959 Chevrolet truck, some hand tools and a shovel, Eugene, a family man and electrician (who had been working as a highlineman), was determined to succeed and started his own business.  He passed this drive and determination on to future generations in the family. McCaffety Electric has since grown into a thriving family-owned business that now employs over 90 staff members, including master electricians, engineers, and licensed journeymen. The company has expanded throughout the Huntsville, Conroe, and Bryan-College Station areas, servicing a 60-mile radius surrounding each location. The corporate office, located at 1711 Sycamore Avenue in Huntsville, has been there for more than 30 years, and also has a lighting showroom. The Conroe location is 1610A North Frazier, and the newest location is at 1523 Crosswinds in College Station.

Today, Eugene’s son Rob McCaffety serves as President, his sister Pam Barnes serves as CEO, Frankie (Rob’s wife) is the Corporate Secretary, and Jason McCaffety (Rob and Frankie’s son) is the Vice President.  Cody McCaffety (Rob and Frankie’s son) and Jeremy Barnes (Pam’s son) run the Conroe location. Jarrod Welch is the Operations Manager at the storefront in College Station. 

Concerning the Conroe location, Cody says while he and Jeremy both “wear all the hats,” there are some areas of specialty.  “I do office management, facilitate contracts, negotiations, oversee staff, customer relations, and sales.  Jeremy is over project management and estimating.”

Their path into the family business was not a direct one.  “Jeremy and I grew up in the hayfields, baling hay and working cows.  In college, I went to work for AOC Welding Supply, and Jeremy went to work for Brookstone Construction as an assistant project manager.  My dad’s thought was to send us out into ‘the real world’ to get some experience from different perspectives, and then try to bring us into the company.  So, Jeremy and I have both been with McCaffety for 13 years.”

Over the years, the business has gone through various changes in terms of the products and services offered.  Besides residential and commercial, they’ve also extended their services to larger corporations and municipalities.  To stay up to date with state-of-the-art technology, they also incorporate data wiring, which is different and requires knowledge, training and certification in this area. Data wires are basically cables that provide service for cable TV, Wi-Fi, and phone service, and makes connecting to a network possible through computers and other devices. Today’s data wiring relies mostly on two primary types of cables: ethernet, which are twisted copper conductors; and fiber optic cables made of glass or plastic centers. Each offers a different type of feature.

Cody says, “We constantly come across new products that engineers ‘spec’ into jobs.”  This requires workers at McCaffety to do their homework to bring everything together in an expert manner.

As far as electrical wiring for residential homes or remodel construction projects, McCaffety does the electrical wiring from the ground up. They can upgrade fixtures and wiring and install panels as well. For commercial jobs, it’s a whole different ballgame, because a pool of contractors submit sealed bids. Then, depending on which bid they select, the project manager or owner will award the job to the contractor whose bid was chosen. The process is quite involved.

While the current bulk of the workload for McCaffety’s Conroe location is commercial jobs, residential service and repair is an area that is steadily growing…and with a growing workload, comes expansion.  McCaffety in Conroe has added to their property and is constructing a new building for additional storage use.

Overall, the future of McCaffety Electric is promising. “We are very excited to see what innovative ideas and fresh vision the new generations of the family bring to the table,” said Frankie. Jason, Cody, and Jeremy are all very hardworking and driven, and they have plans for growth, expansion and change for the corporation.

They’ve been illuminating the Walker and Montgomery areas for over six decades, and now parts of Brazos County as well. Their motto is, “McCaffety Electric – big or small, we do it all!”

“We are a hometown, family business,” stated Cody.  “Good guys who try to go above and beyond to do whatever it takes to make sure the customer is satisfied and the product works. We stand behind it—from installation to completion to warranty.”

For more information about their products and services, visit: www.mccaffetyelectric.com or call (936) 539-5411.