After a nationwide search, Phoenix-based GCON Inc. has hired Leary Jones as Vice President, Environment, Health and Safety, a 40-year industry veteran tasked with scaling the company’s award-winning safety culture across its growing nationwide operations.
Across his career, Jones has managed billions of dollars of commercial construction work and teams spanning the West, Southwest and Mexico. At GCON, he will lead EHS strategy, ensuring the continued delivery of exceptional projects while prioritizing the well-being of GCON’s people and the communities it serves. This includes creating environments that reinforce thoughtful behavior, a deep understanding of job responsibilities and a confidence that empowers work performance and teamwork.
Since launching in Phoenix in 2003, GCON has grown to more than 200 employees operating in 28 states. It specializes in critical high-tech environments and is actively growing on all of its product fronts, including aviation, healthcare, education, office and industrial.
This growth is advanced by the company’s late-2025 acquisition by Webcor LP, a full-service commercial builder headquartered in San Francisco.
“Our employees are central to GCON’s growth and success,” says GCON Founder and CEO Mike Godbehere. “Leary has spent his career developing innovative safety programs and mitigating risk by prioritizing physical, psychological and mental safety. We appreciate his proven approach and look forward to working with him to even further strengthen our culture of care and operational excellence.”
Prior to GCON, Jones served in director positions for multiple notable U.S. construction firms including BNBuilders, Balfour Beatty Construction U.S. and Turner Construction Company. He has served as a manager and mentor from pre-construction to project completion, successfully lowering workers compensation and general liability claims, improving company Experience Modification Rates (EMRs), and utilizing leading and lagging indicators to lower lost time (LTIR) and injury rates (RIR).
“From the moment someone joins GCON, whether in the field, the office, or a support role, we will introduce our safety culture as the foundation of who we are,” Jones said. “It’s not a checklist. It’s ongoing care that we revisit throughout onboarding and across the employee journey through regular check-ins and conversations. When people feel protected physically, psychologically and mentally, they thrive and so does the company.”
Jones holds designation as a Construction Health and Safety Technician by the Board of Certified Safety Professionals and is an active member of the Associated General Contractors of America.
