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“Give me the ugly jobs.” That’s how Nick Melching introduces himself on site. As a supervisor and foreman at Melching, and Doug Melching’s son, Nick leans into the work most crews avoid: the sprawling, the hazardous, the unpredictable. In Sandusky, Ohio, he took on a city-size teardown: the former General Motors precision ball bearing plant (later KBI), originally built in 1946. “One month on this job was the equivalent of 20 ordinary jobs,” Nick says. “Fuel, maintenance, pro