Angelo Incorvaia
Award 2023
Angelo (second person from the left) has been a fantastic asset, taking on leadership responsibility during a challenging time. He has provided the team with support and led the way to ensure we deliver on our commitments.
With a warm and empathetic approach to others, Angelo has provided stability and focus in the business. His encouragement and overall style have had a positive impact on the team culture which we highly appreciate.
Jiří Krejčí
Award, 2022
Jiří Krejčí is a valued team member at our Sumperk plant in the Czech Republic and celebrated his 25th anniversary with CeramTec earlier this year. During his tenure at CeramTec, Mr. Krejčí has earned a reputation for reliability and on-time delivery. He always strives to do his best and can be counted on to perform his work as a washing machine operator to a high standard of quality. It is a pleasure to work with Mr. Krejčí. You can always count on him doing his job on time and in high quality - even without a foreman or support. He is a true role model for our value of accountability.
Zdeněk Navrátil
Award, 2021
Mr. Zdeněk Navrátil from Sumperk has taken responsibility for a healthy working environment by initiating and implementing the remediation of the contaminated floor in the "soft machining workplace" area. He also contributed numerous improvement ideas in the area of SHE (Safety, Health & Environment) and productivity enhancement, such as designing a new layout to significantly increase work efficiency and renovating the floor in the green processing hall.
The latter in particular has helped to eliminate odours in the problem area as well as the risk from environmental pollution from the past. It has also helped to improve cleaning in the problem area.
James „Jim“ Bennett
Award, 2020
During 2019, one of Jim’s colleagues unfortunately suffered an injury outside work and as a consequence was absent for a prolonged period of time while he recovered.
Throughout this time, Jim stepped up to take responsibility for the workload assigned to his colleague in addition to completing his own duties. In taking accountability to ensure all critical deliverables were achieved he regularly worked additional hours and weekends and ensured the business had technical support in place. In addition to covering the day to day responsibilities of the role, Jim also took responsibility for the technical aspects of a major customer investigation including representing the technical team on a number of customer calls and site visits. Jim also played an instrumental role in introducing a new improvement process for powder mixing which his colleague had previously taken responsibility for. Jim’s commitment to take Accountability during this challenging time was exemplary.