Bowen leaders Bill Thompson, Jed Holt and Pat Johnston talk about how encouragement has positively affected them and the people around them.

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Dear Team,

For the third consecutive year, Bowen Engineering has been named one of the top 25 Best Places to Work in America (Medium-Sized Category) by the Great Place to Work® Institute and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).

The award is based on a number of criteria, and a key component of these is a random, anonymous survey conducted by the Best Places organization.  The survey collects information from 200 randomly-selected Bowen employees.  The survey asks a number of questions about Bowen’s culture, day-to-day relevance of our core values, and the trust level between employees and supervisors.

Competition for this award was greater than ever this year, with a significant number of companies competing for the first time.  To be named top 25 for three years running is proof that YOU bring our core values to life every day at Bowen Engineering.

YOU are the reason that Bowen Engineering is such a great place to work.  Congratulations on this win!

Doug

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Bowen recently held SQP (Safe – Quality – Production) training at our headquarters and the Meadow Lake Wind Farm project site in Indiana.  SQP, formerly known as Production Management, acquired its new name as the need for emphasis on Safety and Quality ties into our Zero Injury Culture.

Between both locations, there were approximately 30 participants who completed this training.  Graduates include:  Roger Havill, Josh Kellam, Brian Davis, Corey Padgett, John Vowell, Clay Woodruff, Josh Bohanon, Joe Bastin, Alan Dale, Rem Yoder, Howard McClanahan, Rick Meunier, Joe Gallagher, Chris Jenkins (Miller Electric), Kent Cooper (Miller Electric), Ken Miller (Miller Electric), Carl Hickman (Miller Electric), Todd Brown (Miller Electric), Sam Fackrell, Matt Meyer, Chad Ranson, Bill Freese, Chad Bachmann, Greg Houchin, Mark McClellan, JJ Bray, Paul Creasy, Robert Leary, Brian Panzik, John Armstrong, Scott Staggs, Richard Calvert, and Jacqueline Cardwell.

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We are honored to once again be named one of the Best Places to Work in Indiana.  Bowen placed 6th in the large companies category (250 or more employees) for the 2009 program.  In 2008, Bowen placed 8th in the small to medium-sized companies category (25-249 employees) and has ranked each of the four years that the Best Places to Work in Indiana program has been active.

At the Awards Dinner...From Left: Bowen's Bill Freese and Amy Kroh, Indiana Chamber President Kevin Brinegar, Bowen's Doug Bowen (President) and Dave Barnett

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The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption today announced the third annual America’s 100 Best Adoption-Friendly Workplaces list recognizing organizations nationwide for their adoption benefits.

This year more than 90 organizations established or enhanced adoption benefits. “We continue to see increases in the number of companies establishing and enhancing adoption benefit policies. Even with today’s tough economy, we found that companies are dedicated more than ever to providing competitive benefits packages to help their employees when they adopt,” said Rita Soronen, executive director of the Foundation. “It is one benefit that employers can add without negatively impacting the bottom line.”

America’s Top Ten
1. Wendy’s International, Inc.
2. Citizen’s Financial Group, Inc. / RBS Americas
3. LSI Corporation
4. United Business Media LLC (UBM)
5. Liquidnet
6. Subaru of America, Inc.
7. Bowen Engineering Corporation
8. Timberland
9. Barilla America
10. Time Inc.

To learn more about the Dave Thomas Foundation, click here.

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Charity Golf Tournament to Benefit East Tennessee Children’s Hospital
Gettysvue Country Club in Knoxville, Tennesee will be the site for the second annual event benefiting ETCH.  ETCH is a not-for-profit, private, independent medical facility serving area children since 1937.

Last year, Bowen team members raised over $15,000 for the East Tennessee Children’s Hospital.  For more information about the East Tennessee Children’s hospital and the families they serve, have a look at the video below.

Click here to download the flyer for this exciting event. You can also contact Bowen’s Devan Welch to obtain more information or to make a contribution.  865-293-4042.

Event Date: September 28, 2009

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Mueller Safety Award – Presented to Superintendent Mike Tuley
The Mueller Safety Award, established in 2005 in honor of Bowen’s first Safety Director, is given in recognition of dedication and commitment to making Bowen Engineering a safe place to work.

From Left: Safety Director Brian Crabtree, Division Manager Jeff Purdue, 2008 Recipient Mike Tuley, Division Managers Jim Ankrum and Jeff Chinn, 2007 Recipient Rick Winkles

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Each year multiple teams within Bowen Engineering adopt families for the Holidays.  This allows our less fortunate neighbors the opportunity to provide gifts for their family during otherwise difficult times. Read more

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From left: Julie and Doug Bowen, keynote speaker Terry Bradshaw, Jim Ankrum, Bob and Terry Bowen

Community service is an important part of our family culture here at Bowen, and Big Brothers Big Sisters is a cause close to our hearts.  In October, we attended an annual dinner supporting Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Indiana.  We, along with 850 others guests, worked together to raise $250,000 to support the goal of serving 1,200 local boys and girls with positive adult mentors.

We were thrilled to be a part of such a successful effort.

Learn more about Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Indiana here.

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Sure, we’re proud of the business side of our success at Bowen.  When a Bowen project team descends upon a project, the professionalism and expertise of our people are what our clients identify as the Bowen Difference Maker.  It is really exciting when the opportunity arises to see this level of passion for service applied to community service projects.

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As a Protégé in Bowen’s Leadership Challenge Workshop, the Community Project Challenge portion of the year-long leadership program was daunting at first mention. The Community Project Challenge requires each Protégé to lead a major community service project.  This requires the identification of an appropriate opportunity, the organization and scheduling of the effort, the recruitment of help to accomplish set goals, the execution of the project and finally the reporting back to the group of what the effort accomplished.  In the course of our workshop sessions, it became clear to me that I had been ‘waiting for permission’ to spend time helping in the community – there was and is always plenty to do at work and at home!  But shortly after the challenge was announced, the opportunity called.

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