Behind the Conveyor – Team Spotlight
Dorner has become a global brand in conveyor automation – and that’s all thanks to our team. This blog series highlights professionals whose dedication and passion positively impact your conveyor systems. These are the faces behind the brand who are helping to transform conveyor automation and having fun doing it!
Meet Shawn
Dorner’s engineers get to flex their creative muscles every day to solve unique customer challenges, and for Shawn W., that’s one of the best parts of the job. Shawn is a mechanical designer with Dorner’s engineering team and enjoys the wide variety of projects he gets to design and help create.
Starting as an assembly technician in Dorner’s 7x department ten years ago, Shawn quickly moved through the ranks from New Product Development to the Engineered Solutions Group and is now in Dorner’s Engineered to Order department. He’s embraced each role’s challenges and built a wealth of knowledge about Dorner’s products and services along the way. Now, in ETO, he gets the opportunity to design many of Dorner’s FlexMove Helix conveyor systems to help customers transport, accumulate, and buffer products.
Shawn confided that he had a concern about the transition from working on the shop floor to the office: he wouldn’t have the same hands-on experience and satisfaction of solving challenges. However, he still gets ample opportunities to fix problems and develop creative customer solutions. “I enjoy being able to make something from nothing” as a mechanical designer. Creating, designing, building, and fixing problems makes this job rewarding.
One of the benefits of working at Dorner is the broad spectrum of industries you get to work with. “We’re increasing our capabilities of what we can provide customers,” and conveyance will continue growing and innovating. Manufacturers’ needs will change as they grow and adapt to new consumer demands, and we will be right here to help them meet those new challenges head-on.
The Dorner Difference
It’s professionals like Shawn who go above and beyond every day. Our global workforce takes pride in partnering with our customers to optimize efficiency and productivity in their applications. We accomplish this by designing, manufacturing, supporting, and distributing high-quality conveyor systems that meet our demanding standards.
That’s the Dorner Difference
