Our Team

Neil, PresidentYears of pumping experience: 28Most memorable job: All of them. I can’t go anywhere in the Chicagoland area without thinking, “I pumped that...and that...and that…”Quote about the job: “Can they do that in pea gravel?”

Neil, President

Years of pumping experience: 28

Most memorable job: All of them. I can’t go anywhere in the Chicagoland area without thinking, “I pumped that...and that...and that…”

Quote about the job: “Can they do that in pea gravel?”

AngusYears of pumping experience: 5  Favorite Job: Pumping the fake concrete for an episode of “Chicago Fire.”Quote about the job: “That job had the BEST food!”

Angus

Years of pumping experience: 5

Favorite Job: Pumping the fake concrete for an episode of “Chicago Fire.”

Quote about the job: “That job had the BEST food!”

RafaelYears of pumping experience: 26Hobbies: Gardening, Cooking, woodworking, tending his chickens  Fun memory: The time Neil & I nearly set fire to the shop.

Rafael

Years of pumping experience: 26

Hobbies: Gardening, Cooking, woodworking, tending his chickens

Fun memory: The time Neil & I nearly set fire to the shop.

 

Mission

Wil-Pump Concrete provides consistent and exceptional service to customers by working hard, taking responsibility for our part of its success and maintaining our integrity.  We want our employees to succeed both at work and at home and so we treat our team with respect and pay them well.  Wil-Pump seeks to better the community by doing the very best work so that each concrete pump operator can look back upon a finished project and say, “I built that.” 

Why Wil-Pump?

Wil-Pump was established in 1994 and is an independent family-owned business. We work with all companies and on all job sites. Our experienced operators have done it all, from pumping under water in the Chicago River to hundreds of feet out onto a Lake Michigan barge.  We’ve built dams, constructed massive museum exhibits and filled skunk holes under homes.  We’ll go up a ten-story building, fill pipe under a road and pump fake concrete onto movie sets.  If it’s pumpable, we can move it.  

In addition to their experience in job management and running the equipment, our operators are also skilled mechanics.  Our equipment is well maintained but anything can happen and it’s a job-saver when an operator is able to make a quick repair or even have a replacement pump on the job quickly. Our operators are knowledgeable on concrete mix designs and work closely with redi-mix companies to ensure material flows as it should.

While we service all contractors and work on all size jobs, from the beginning the goal at Wil-Pump has been to meet the needs of the small contractor.  We provide an outstanding service at a fair price.  Our pumps don’t do just one pour a day and make that pour last.  We run a tight schedule and hustle on the job. Keeping our eye on that smaller contractor, we’ve made sure that our basic pour – the three hour minimum – remains an outstanding value.

 

History

 
 

1990 - Wilsonbilt, Inc., a home remodeling and construction business was created

1993 - Wilsonbilt rented a concrete pump to pour a foundation for an addition and saw an opportunity

1994 - Wil-Pump Concrete was created. The vision was to make concrete pumping affordable for the smaller contractor

1994 - First design of trailer pump set up which was used until 3 years ago

1998 - Added our first team member, Rafael

1998 - Built first Truck Mounted Pump

2013 - New design for Truck Mounted Pump

2016 - Next generation of Wilson, Angus, enters the pumping field.

2016 - Neil Wilson changes roles and becomes inventor

2016 - Next generation of Truck Mounted Pump is designed - Patent Pending

2019 - PATENT GRANTED!

2020 - Next generation of Conveyor is designed and built - PATENT PENDING & FOR SALE!