2024 Crane Engineering Core Value Awards

Crane Engineering's team member Value Awards were announced last month at the annual holiday party. With more than 100 nominations, leadership from Crane Engineering selected the winners and awarded team members who best demonstrated the company's core values.

Crane Engineering's core values include:

• Integrity & Respect
• Teamwork
• Customer Focus
• Excellence & Innovation
• Passion & Energy
• Have Fun!

Each year, employees nominate colleagues who best exemplify Crane's core values. The nominees are then narrowed down until one employee is chosen for each category. It's been a Crane Engineering tradition for over 10 years to announce the winners at the company holiday party. This year Lance Crane presented awards to the following recipients:

Integrity & Respect

Cody at Crane Engineering Headquarters

Cody embodies the phrase “Keep your nose to the grindstone”. He always keeps his head down, continues working, and goes above and beyond to make sure the BPO program hits its deadlines. He even goes as far as coming in on Saturdays when it’s not requested of him. He’s a great example for our new technicians entering the shop, and continues to lead/teach them by example, while treating them with the same level of respect he would for any other coworker.

Teamwork

Rob at Crane Engineering in Minnesota

• For more than a year now, Rob has been successfully performing 3, maybe 4 full time jobs – MN Account Manager, MN Service Manager, MN Parts Team Manager, and Enterprise Service Sales Support. As Account Manager, he continues to grow his sales significantly while also working with his account manager teammates to pass opportunities that may be better served by others. As Service Manager, he is leading a growing MN service business and is actively adding to that team by building a field service team. Rob has been a key bridge between MN and WI Operations and Sales. Although Rob’s style at times can be described as “direct,” he does set the example for the whole enterprise for teamwork and communication between sales teams and operations teams. His talents and expertise will continue to be leveraged as we grow MN business and the Enterprise overall!  Great Job Rob!

Teamwork

Derek and Jason at Optiflow Design and Build Center

They both have stepped up a tremendous amount in 2024. They have given directions to Optiflow and all its team members in a year where things did not go anything like as planned. We had one of the largest projects get cancelled right at the beginning of the year and then went through the departure of an account manager and the business unit manager. These two stepped up and took on some of those tasks and kept Optiflow moving forward. With their leadership, we still had some amazing wins as a team in 2024. Their teamwork-driven attitude made it effortless for us to come into the office every day and keep the train on the tracks. Consistently in our weekly meetings they emphasized that everything is still business as usual and Optiflow still had customers to please and a goal to achieve. Derek and Jason really devoted themselves to the team through their actions and words in 2024.

Customer Focus

Mary at Professional Pump

Mary is the face and personality of Professional Pump. She always puts her customers first and has great relationships with her customers. They put their repairs in trust and always make sure they are getting what they need when they need it. Her organizational skills help keep her customers at the forefront of the service business at Professional Pump.

Excellence & Innovation

Scott at Crane Engineering Headquarters

Scott is a truly knowledgeable teammate who always thinks in a creative manner to offer solutions to customers by utilizing components from our core product lines.

Scott always brings expertise to challenging valve applications and situations with his experience. This has been really impactful with some of the newer team members joining the valve team in the last year.  The valve calls in the more are always a great way him to provide impactful input to the team.

Scott has had a lot of experience throughout the years as an application engineer and when we have difficult applications, he always has creative approaches to solving problems. Having past knowledge allows him to solve applications in new ways.

Passion & Energy

Justin at Professional Pump

For how he supports his customers and account managers. He does his work with such great speed that it comes from the drive to serve the customer. I know his account managers trust the job to be done right and fast when they turn something over to Justin. Very glad he is part of our team.

Passion & Energy

Brooke at Crane Engineering Headquarters

Brooke really does bring passion and energy to the workplace. She has a contagious demeanor, one that everyone gravitates to. Brooke has been a great addition to the HR team, bringing her positive energy and nonjudgmental attitude with every obstacle and person she encounters. A true representative our company is fortunate to have on the team!

Have Fun!

Jake at Optiflow Design and Build Center

212 Award

Tim at Crane Engineering Headquarters

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