Sakai America is happy to introduce three new hires in the Adairsville, GA headquarters. Joey Queen joined Sakai America in the newly created Manufacturing Engineer role. Queen has over 20 years in manufacturing and tooling with the heavy equipment and heavy machine components industries.
“Joey is going to be a huge asset for us on the assembly line.” states Kevin McClain, VP Operations at Sakai America. “He has already fine-tuned our processes and is focusing on our assembly teams becoming more efficient. We have some big production goals this year, and Joey is going to help us realize those goals.”
Curtis McCrillis was recently hired as Service Manager for Sakai America. “We are excited for our dealers to get to know Curtis.” says Kendall Phillips, Product Support Manager. “He is new to asphalt and soil rollers, but he knows heavy equipment, the construction industry and what it takes to support dealer service teams.” McCrillis comes to Sakai America from a local heavy equipment dealer, where he held several service and management positions.
Rosa Bennett joins the company as Receiving Coordinator where she will work with the inventory control team on in-bound component and parts management. “As we continue to increase the number of machines we assemble, our inventory management only becomes more important.” offers Wes Shepherd, Purchasing & Materials Manager. “Rosa will be instrumental in helping us keep our teams stocked with parts and communicating with our vendors.”
Sakai America is singularly focused on asphalt and soil rollers for the road-building and site-preparation markets, and is one of the compaction industry’s oldest manufacturers. For over 50 years, Sakai America has built and sold durable, reliable and easy-to-use rollers through our dealer network to end-users in the construction trades. Located in Adairsville, Georgia, Sakai America continues to live into our mission as Masters of Compaction. For more information about Sakai America, or to find a local dealer please visit www.sakaiamerica.com.