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We wanted to give you a peek into some of the exciting things happening on campus.
Every year at our awards we like to recognize the people who have taken our core values to heart and gone above and beyond to live them out. Many people have earned a challenge coin throughout the year, and with our end of the year awards we give out two very special awards: the Innovator - goes to the team member who creates ideas that increase our efficiency and our productivity, The Lift Up Award - goes to the person who lives our core values and has collected all five challenge coins during the year and is voted on by our leadership team
We asked a few of our newest employees to share what it was like for them on their first few days as part of our team. Their reactions and thoughts go a long way to describing the kind of culture we are creating here at SPOC. Each of our new teammates is in a different department of our organization, from Training to Marketing to Sales. Some are coming from inside the industry, while others are coming to us from other areas. Read below to see what they have to say about their initial experience here at SPOC Automation.
We take great pride in our company culture. After all, those values and ideas are a big driver here at SPOC, and we want to share them, as well as the leading-edge products we design and manufacture.
There’s an old adage in sales that goes something like this: “Attention follows attention. Keep your attention, your focus, on serving the customer and they’ll follow you.”
At SPOC, we’re leaders in our industry. That’s a fact. And way more often than not, we’re ahead of the pack in the design and manufacture of variable frequency drives for upstream and midstream applications in the oil and gas industry. Yet, with that position as a pacesetter, comes a need to train our customers, resale partners and our OEM base to help them get the most out of our innovative, leading-edge products.
When you buy a drive from SPOC Automation, the customer experience definitely doesn’t end after the drive is installed and up and running. We build our drives to last under rough conditions, from the summer heat in West Texas to the bone-chilling cold of North Dakota in the winter.
Trussville, Ala. – SPOC Automation welcomes Reed Simms as their new Mid-Continent Sales Manager. Simms will be responsible for leading business growth and advancing brand credibility. He brings more than 10 years in sales, account management, and customer service.
We did a little renovation on our house this year. Sometimes growing quickly presents bigger challenges than not enough growth. We added a fourth building to our complex, which we use to store inventory, freeing up production space in our other buildings.
This past year was an important year for our company. We grew. We made more drives and served more clients than the previous year. But we did something else that might be even more important.
We decided to put down in writing the core values that define what we believe and will guide us in the future. We grew this year, a lot. We added a number of talented people to our team. We expect that we will grow even more in the coming years. We felt that it was critical, as we grow, that everyone who joins our team understand the soul of this company, so that together we work toward a common goal.
Our leadership team spent a lot of time talking about these ideas.
There was a lot of debate. We might have argued some. But in the end, we came to 100 percent consensus on five ideas.
Committed. We are dedicated to completing our work the right way, on time, every time.
Caring. We respect and care about our employees, our customers and our suppliers. We invest resources to make them better.
Passionate. We are competitive and motivated to succeed. We take pride in helping our customers win.
Solutions Focused. We are an innovation company. Creatively, we solve challenging problems in the best way.
Gratifying. We believe work should be fun and we enjoy delivering world class products for our customers.
But the best way to understand what a company believes in is not to read their corporate documents. It’s to watch the behavior of its people. At SPOC, our core values are not just words on paper. They are beliefs that we live out every day.
So this year, in addition to formalizing our values, we decided to create awards that honor the members of our team who embody these values every day. A few weeks ago, we recognized three extraordinary people. And maybe the most extraordinary thing about each of them is that they would tell you they are only doing their jobs.
Randy Nelms. Randy is one of our earliest employees. He sets high expectations, for himself and everyone on his team. He expects people to work their hardest, to be honest, and to give our customers more than they expect. He is just a rock-solid individual, both personally and professionally.
The thing you notice first about Jake Hinkle is his attitude. He approaches every task, every job with great enthusiasm. He is eager to learn, and most importantly, he cares about giving his best to every challenge. We’ve challenged Jake often and he always rises to the challenge.
Oren Arzad has an equally winning attitude. He is driving to be the best in everything he does, both personally and professionally. That’s why he’s been an Olympic athlete and why he is one of SPOC’s champions.
Looking at these three people, we can confidently say that we’ve been fortunate to attract great people to our company. Without doubt, that’s the biggest reason for our success and the success of our clients.