CRB Adds 2 Senior Directors to Expand Automation Expertise
CRB announced that Jim Vortherms, senior director of Automation Delivery, and Jerry Steenhoek, senior director of Automation Technology, have joined the company's award-winning Food and Beverage group. With nearly six decades of combined experience, Vortherms and Steenhoek will enhance CRB's project delivery by leveraging their combined automation expertise from early process design through to start-up.
The hires reflect CRB's sharp focus on helping clients use and manage data to make smarter manufacturing and equipment decisions, which can address challenges ranging from labor productivity and product safety to capacity and regulatory requirements. "From increasing throughput to identifying new efficiencies, clients are on the hunt for automation solutions that bring their products to market quickly and safely," said Jason Robertson, CRB's vice president for Food and Beverage. "Jim and Jerry's combined expertise will be invaluable to our clients across virtually all facets of their projects."
Both Vortherms and Steenhoek bring keen insights and knowledge about the food and beverage industry and "value-added" agricultural, chemical processing, and life sciences fields to CRB, a leading global provider of engineering, architecture, construction, and consulting solutions to F&B clients.