Transitions
Mike Fraley started off his career here in which area?
What is The Oxide Mill?
What is Hurricane Helene?
The Joliet Branch is the hub for this type of battery maintenance operation.
What are railroad/locomotive maintenance operations?
Due to his bi-lingual abilities and knowledge of Spanish, this employee works with international sales primarily in South America.
Who is Otto Gonzalez?
Crown is committed to ensuring the health of our employees by promoting THIS through events, newsletters, and policies.
What is Wellness?
Gail Dahm (HR) worked in this location on the production floor for 7 years prior to joining HR.
What is Stacking?
Name 2 females who are in supervisory positions in the production areas.
Who are Pam Ratcliff, Kasey Carroll, Kim Popoca, and Dawn Carroll?
This branch deals primarily with restoring and rebuilding mining batteries along the Pennsylvania-West Virginia corridor.
What is Pittsburgh?
D'Arcy O'Neill oversees all of Crown Canada. Name the two locations of our branches North of the border.
What are Mississauga and Montreal?
Crown Battery has two main guiding forces for everyone, especially production employees. We cover these two areas extensively during our Orientation process.
What are Safety and Quality?
Name 2 areas in Crown Battery where Hal Hawk worked prior to becoming President and CEO.
What is...IND Sales? Driving Truck/SLI Sales? What is outdoor general maintenance --mowing, painting, etc.? What is Branch Manager ~ SLI? What is VP Industrial Sales?
HR developed a new award in 2024, the Great Energy Movement (GEM) Award, for employees who use good energy to create a positive change and/or uplifts other employees in a significant way. Name the 1st, and currently only, recipient.
Who is Jeff Arman?
Mississauga, Ontario, and Pointe-Claire, Quebec
What are our two Canadian branches that make up Crown Canada?
Name two of the CONTINENTS where Crown Battery has a network of business partners, distributors, and dealers.
What are: North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia?
What will we continually try to reduce in 2025 that we started to really focus on in 2024?
What is waste?
This former Inventory Clerk, Parts Coordinator, and Operations Planner moved to IT in 2021.
Who is Josh Pocock?
Name 2 of our Employees of the Month from 2024.
Who are...Antonio Rodriguez, Mark Fought, Patrick Graber, Annie Graham, Erik Balduff, Pat Ratcliff, Anna Johnson, Luis Esquivel, Rich Durdel, and Nikolas Birkholz?
Founded in 1923, this battery service corporation out of Johnson City, Illinois, has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Crown Battery since 2006.
What is Reaco Battery?
Tim Hack, our Chief Financial Officer, is a native of this country (not the United States).
What is Canada?
This will give us the ability to move skiddable receivables out of the manufacturing areas to open up some floor space and allow us to consider more efficient production processes.
What is the new expansion?
Who is Bryan Carnicom?
Hal Hawk is the 3rd longest-serving employee here. Name the longest and 2nd longest-serving employees.
Who are Ben Lopez and Arny Escobedo?
This branch manager for MDC on SR 19 sometimes helps out to supervise Sales & Service when our manager is out. He is also our manager's brother.
Who is Jim Burkett?
This longtime employee (Engineer) earned her American citizenship in the Summer of 2023. She is originally from The Middle East.
Who is Samira Farahani?
Name one of the new pieces of equipment we are excited to fully implement and put to use in 2025 (some were installed late in 2024)?
What is/are pasting line stackers, robotic palletizing systems, new IND Wrapper/Stacker, accumulation cross-ver for ICO-02, two IND ARS formation modules?