Leadership

Timothy Simmons

International President

Timothy Simmons began his Boilermaker career on a boiler outage in 1999, working out of Boilermakers Local 108, in Birmingham, Alabama, at the Alabama Power Miller Steam Plant. Brother Simmons considers it an honor to have been able to serve his Brothers and Sisters in many different roles, including as a Local 108 Business Agent/Secretary Treasurer, District Lodge #3 Officer, Director of National Recruitment Services, Director of Construction Division Services and Assistant to the International President.

In October 2022, the International Executive Council voted unanimously to elect Brother Simmons to fill the IVP-Southeast Section vacancy, effective February 1, 2023, upon the retirement of Warren Fairley. Brother Fairley briefly came out of retirement to serve the union as International President during a time of transition. Upon his final retirement in August 2024, the International Executive Council elected Tim Simmons to serve as International President.

Clint Penny

International Secretary-Treasurer

Clinton Penny is a fourth-generation Boilermaker who joined Local 11 (Helena, Montana) on the tools a day after completing high school. He follows in the footsteps of his father, grandfather and his maternal great-grandfather.

Penny describes himself as a rank-and-file Boilermaker from a suitcase local, having spent his years on the tools traveling to jobsites around the country. He started in refineries, and he worked at Montana’s Colstrip for a few years, among other jobs.

Prior to his election as IST, Penny was L-11 Business Manager/Secretary-Treasurer. He served his local lodge in that role for three consecutive terms. He has served as president of the Montana State Building Trades since 2021.

The International Executive Council elected Penny as International Secretary-Treasurer Aug. 26, 2024.

Contact
12200 N Ambassador Dr, Suite 301
Kansas City, MO 64163
Phone: (913) 371-2640

J. Tom Baca

International Vice-President Western States

J. Tom Baca began his Boilermaker career as a field construction worker in 1969. A member of Local 549 (Pittsburg, California), Baca worked his way up the ranks, from steward to job superintendent, earning an appointment as an assistant business manager in 1994. He has served as both trustee and chairman of trustees on the Local 549 executive board and became business manager/secretary-treasurer for Local 549 in March 2005.

A third-generation Boilermaker, Baca has been president of both the Contra Costa Building Trades and Central Labor Council, and a member of the executive board for that area’s NAACP chapter.

Baca was appointed union trustee to the Boilermaker-Blacksmith National Pension Trust in 2005. He also served on the Law Committee for the 31st Consolidated Convention in July 2006.

On February 1, 2007, he became International vice president of the Western States.

Contact
1401 Willow Pass Road, Suite 870
Concord, CA 94520
Phone: (925) 798-7665

John T. Fultz

International Vice-President Northeast

John Fultz is the Boilermakers’ International Vice President for the Northeast Section.

He began his career in 1974 as an apprentice with Boilermakers Local 175, Oswego, New York (now Local 5, Zone 175), and graduated as a journeyman in 1978.

He worked as a field construction Boilermaker until 1997, when he was elected Business Manager/Secretary-Treasurer of L-175.

In 2004, Fultz became a Construction Division International Rep while also working as L-175 BM-ST. He moved to a full-time rep position in 2008.

Fultz was appointed Assistant Director of Construction Sector Operations in 2009. After eight years in that position, he was appointed Executive Director – CSO and Assistant Director of Administrative Affairs of the International President. He was also appointed Special Assistant to the International President. He held the ED-CSO position for only a short time before being elected IVP-NE.

Fultz also serves as a trustee and secretary on the boards of the Boilermakers National Health and Welfare Fund and the Boilermaker-Blacksmith National Pension Trust. In addition, he serves on the Joint Committee on Administration for the National Funds.

Contact
12200 N Ambassador Dr, Suite 333
Kansas City, MO 64163
Phone: (913) 281-8175

Arnie M. Stadnick

International Vice-President Canada

Arnie Stadnick is the Boilermakers’ International Vice President for Canada.

In 1982, he indentured as an apprentice at Local 146 (Edmonton, Alberta). He served a three-year Boilermaker apprenticeship, after which he secured his journeyman ticket in 1986. Stadnick worked in both the ISO and CSO divisions serving as an apprentice, journeyman, job steward, foreman, general foreman and superintendent on various job sites.

In 2005, he began working for Local 146 as a business rep and assistant business manager. L- 146 members elected him business manager/secretary-treasurer in 2011 and again in 2013.

Stadnick joined the staff in 2015 as an International Rep. In 2017, he was appointed as the Canadian Director – ISO and Assistant to the Director – ISO. Stadnick graduated from the Harvard Trade Union Program in 2017.

Contact
#204, 10059 - 118th Street
Edmonton, AB, CAN T5K 0B9
Phone: (780) 483-0823
Fax: (780) 489-3043

Dan Sulivan

International Vice-President Great Lakes

Dan Sulivan is International Vice President of the Great Lakes Section. Prior to being unanimously elected by the International Executive Council to serve as IVP-Great Lakes, Sulivan served as Local 374 (Hobart, Indiana) Business Manager/Secretary-Treasurer since 2017. He was sworn in as IVP on Oct. 1, 2023.

Sulivan began his welding career learning welding and metal trades skills as a Navy Seabee. His father was a Seabee, and Sulivan enlisted straight out of high school to follow his father’s footsteps.

After his military career, he took a job at a local nonunion shop, and in 2002, he saw a Boilermakers’ newspaper ad seeking welders. He answered the ad, went on a job, took a make-or-break test and never looked back.

After graduating from apprenticeship in 2006, he later served L-374 as a lodge inspector, sergeant at arms and vice president before being elected BM-ST.

“I hope to make proud the retirees and those who went before me, helped me along the way and paved the way for new leaders like me,” he says. “I will always maintain the Seabee ‘Can Do’ spirit. There’s nothing we can’t do, and that’s what I’m going to bring to the table: Don’t take ‘no’ for an answer, find a way through challenges and find a solution.”

Sulivan, who is married and the father of one boy and four girls, has also been an advocate to women in the trades and to NABTU’s Tradeswomen Build Nations program. He is Second-Vice President for the Indiana State Building Trades and is an Industrial Sector Vice President for the Northern Indiana Labor Federation, AFL-CIO.

Contact
780 N Union St
Hobart, IN 46342
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Jeff Campbell

International Vice-President Southeast

The International Executive Council elected Jeff Campbell to fill the IVP-Southeast Section vacancy left when Tim Simmons was elected to serve as International President in August 2024. Prior to that role, Brother Campbell served as Executive Director of ISO and Administrative Assistant to the International President. He previously was Director of Cement Lodge Services and Assistant Director-ISO, servicing lodges in the Southeast, Great Lakes and Northeast sections. He joined Local 726 (Owensboro, Kentucky) in 1991 while employed as a production technician with W.R. Grace. He held various positions in his local before becoming president in 2005. In 2015, he received an appointment to International Rep, and he was appointed as Director of the Cement Division in 2022. He completed the University of Wisconsin's School for Workers Basic and Advanced Institutes, and he is a graduate of the 2018 Harvard Trade Union Program.