Built on Experience. Proven in the Field.
Since 1946, SOS Steel has helped shape projects across Northern California with structural steel, miscellaneous metals, and architectural metalwork built to perform. What started as a small fabrication operation has grown into a trusted steel partner for contractors, institutions, developers, and complex project teams.
Today, SOS Steel brings preconstruction, fabrication, erection, safety, and quality control together through a disciplined process built around precision, communication, and follow through.
ALIGNED
Estimating, fabrication, and field teams work from one coordinated process, reducing handoffs and keeping decisions close to the work.
EXPERIENCED
Long tenured shop, office, and field teams bring continuity to complex steel packages, even when drawings, schedules, or site conditions change.
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ACCOUNTABLE
Quality is personal. The schedule is personal. The work is not somebody else's problem.
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BAY AREA BUILT
Since 1946, SOS Steel has helped shape projects across the Bay Area, and continues to build for what comes next.
Real people. Real tenure. Real accountability.
Real people. Real tenure. Real accountability.
President
joined
2018
33
yrs
CFO
joined
2017
32
yrs
Vice President
joined
2021
29
yrs
Project Manager & Estimator
joined
2018
30
yrs
Project Manager & Estimator
joined
2020
35
yrs
Senior Project Manager & Estimator
joined
2019
28
yrs
Project Manager & Estimator
joined
2018
30
yrs
Administrative Assistant
joined
2016
31
yrs
Field Foreman
joined
2018
30
yrs
Field Foreman
joined
2018
30
yrs
Field Foreman
joined
2018
30
yrs
Field Foreman
joined
2020
27
yrs
Field Superintendent
joined
2019
34
yrs
Field Foreman
joined
2021
29
yrs
EVERY WELDER OWNS A PIECE.
SOS Steel is 100% employee-owned through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). That isn't a marketing line — it means every full-time team member, from first-year apprentice to shop superintendent, holds equity in the company they show up to every morning.
Ownership changes incentives. When a project goes well, everyone shares in it. When something goes sideways, everyone has skin in fixing it. The result is a workforce that thinks like operators — because they are.
Aligned
Owners and operators are the same people. No agency cost between management and the shop floor.
Retained
70%+ of our team has spent their entire career here. ESOPs build that kind of loyalty.
Accountable
Quality is personal. Schedule is personal. The work isn't somebody else's problem.
Generational
Independence means we'll still be here in fifty years — not absorbed into a holding company.
FOUR NON-NEGOTIABLES.
We don't have a wall of mission-statement words. We have four. They're the ones every project manager, welder, and detailer here can recite from memory, because they're how we actually decide what to do.
Repeatable processes, dependable schedules, and a workforce that's been doing this together for decades. The same crew on day 800 as on day one.
AISC-certified fabrication, rigorous QC at every weld, and a tolerance for error that ends at zero. Steel, that's right, the first time.
ConstructSecure Platinum-rated, with safety programs that go well beyond compliance. Nobody on our crews gets hurt going home.
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Eight decades of doing what we said we'd do. Honest bids, straight answers, and no daylight between what we promise and what shows up on the jobsite.
30,000 SQ FT OF WORKING STEEL.
Our Santa Clara shop houses fabrication bays, plate-cutting and machining stations, paint and finishing lines, and the laydown yard where finished pieces stage for delivery. Every piece of steel we erect was first welded under this roof.
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1160 Richard Avenue · Santa Clara, CA 95050
Certified to the highest standard. Every time
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