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75TH ANNIVERSARY VIDEO SERIES: PART 3 | In this video, the third in our series, we highlight some of SSOE’s key acquisitions and expansions that prepared us for our 21st-century growth. #SSOEcelebrates75
75TH ANNIVERSARY VIDEO SERIES: PART 2 | In this video, the second in our series, we cover how SSOE has been at the forefront of technological advances—venturing into computer-aided design in 1979. Today, our 75-year tradition of innovation is still going strong. #SSOEcelebrates75
75TH ANNIVERSARY VIDEO SERIES: PART 1 | Today, we celebrate our official anniversary and with that, launch our 5-part video series. In this video, you’ll learn the story of our origin and about the early years at SSOE—a story that started with Al Samborn, Jack Steketee, Burrie Otis, and John Evans. #SSOEcelebrates75
Painting Mexico SSOE red! Our León and Chihuahua offices celebrated SSOE’s 75th anniversary with their own parties a couple weeks ago. León employees donned their favorite Western wear and square danced the night away. The bash included dinner and drinks, a speech from Erick Kuri Gallardo leads our Mexico operations, party games, and a party animal, El Tóxica—the mechanical bull that made the event into a real rodeo. Chihuahua employees took advantage of the remaining summer nights and threw a fun-filled pool party for the whole family. #SSOEcelebrates75 #SSOEmexico #chooseSSOE
Catherine Myers, President and Chief Operating Officer at SSOE, has been listed among Forbes' annual 50 Over 50 in the Innovation category alongside other remarkable women making strides in the world of STEM. Cathy was commended for her leadership in shifting SSOE’s focus to the battery / EV markets and her efforts working alongside our CEO to increase company revenue by more than $33 million in her first year as President. Vince DiPofi, our CEO, quoted within. #PressRelease
All that jazz! A couple weekends ago, we had a lovely afternoon attending UNCF Portland’s Each One Teach One “Jazz in the Garden” luncheon. Dressed in our Sunday best, we had the opportunity to mingle, listen to member experiences, and advocate for educational equity—with live jazz as the soundtrack. Together, we fundraised for UNCF’s mission to increase educational opportunities for minority students in our community and expand the educated workforce pipeline in our nation. #SSOEportland #SSOEcares
Today, we celebrate our registered professionals who represent every engineering discipline across all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Licensed or degreed engineers make up nearly 40% of our employee population—and we’re always looking to add to our team to keep pace with our year-over-year growth. Our PEs spend their days working on exciting and diverse projects for Fortune 100 clients around the globe, and we equip them to drive collaboration through creativity and a full suite of tools and techniques like reality capture, modularization, off-site prefabrication, virtual reality, and BIM. #LicensedPEday #chooseSSOE
Rankings are in! This year, SSOE earned the #2 Manufacturing Design Firm ranking—jumping three spots from #5 in 2022. This ranking represents a wide array of SSOE’s markets and clients, but this year’s climb can be attributed to the firm’s rapidly expanding portfolio in the lithium-ion battery and EV supply chain. In addition to securing top rankings in key markets, three of SSOE’s projects were highlighted in ENR’s Sourcebook—Ford’s Tennessee Electric Vehicle Center in Tennessee, featured as the cover story; KORE Power’s KOREPlex Battery Cell Production Facility in Arizona; and Panasonic’s Lithium-Ion Battery Manufacturing Campus in Kansas. #PressRelease
Construction on the $125 million expansion for YKK AP Inc.'s residential products manufacturing facility is one step closer to completion! The final beam was put in place at the state-of-the-art factory in Macon, Georgia last month. SSOE was in attendance at the topping-out ceremony along with construction partner JE Dunn Construction—plus Georgia’s finest and fastest: YKK AP’s 250 employees and NASCAR driver Akinori Ogata—to commemorate the milestone. The 400,000 SF plant will combine operations to streamline just-in-time processes, create 100 additional jobs, and serve as a model plant for the company’s future North American manufacturing plants. #SSOEsoutheast
Celebrating our 75th in Toledo! We recently held a celebration for SSOE employees and retirees at our world headquarters ahead of our August 8th anniversary. The event kicked off with building tours to show off our newly completed $1 million renovation. Then, we welcomed the families of our four founders—Al Samborn, Jack Steketee, Burrie Otis, and John Evans—enjoying stories of the past and our visions for the future. From there, we had live music, a cornhole tournament, and HandleBar Toledo pedal-powered pub tours. No one left hungry with plenty of local eats like Shorty’s BBQ, Swanky Scoops ice cream, and Schmucker’s pies, a Toledo mainstay that also celebrated its 75th anniversary this year. #SSOEcelebrates75
