This February, Brian Borkowicz,
regional sales developer in north
central operations, R/C services,
invited Steve Matravers, sales
arborist at Davey's West Chicago
R/C office, to speak at the local
Rotary Club in Geneva, Illinois.
Borkowicz, a Rotary Club member,
welcomed Matravers before his
tree care presentation. The pair also
donated a $250 gift certificate for
the Geneva Rotary Annual Benefit
Dinner and silent auction, which
supports club scholarships and
grants to local charities.
Events like this help Matravers,
who covers Geneva and several
nearby territories, build a true
relationship with his territory.
From left to right, Brian Borkowicz and
Steve Matravers present a $250 certificate
to Kathy Coffey of the Geneva Rotary Club
in Illinois.
SPREADING GOOD
WILL AT ILLINOIS
ROTARY CLUB
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The Davey Bulletin | September/October 2016
Employees of the Davey Company's shop facilities attended a chipper and aerial
unit service and repair training session in Kent recently as part of an expanded
training program for shop technicians.
In June, the Kent Shop hosted 18 employees from across the country who
attended a session led by employees from Altec Industries, Inc., which supplies
chippers and aerials to Davey. Bandit Industries, Inc., led a similar training session
in July. Additional training programs scheduled for the remainder of the year will
address safety, fire prevention and other topics.
For vendor training, the companies send either their own equipment repair training
technicians or assembly and training technicians – people who tear down and
rebuild the equipment on a daily basis – giving Davey shop employees direct
access to the knowledge behind the equipment's repair and assembly.
Scott Bucciere, Kent Shop manager, said the vendor training is intended to help
improve employees' knowledge of the machines they are asked to service and
repair for field personnel.
Bucciere added the Kent Shop, the company's largest repair shop facility and
located near corporate headquarters, is ideal for piloting new training methods.
"The goal is to make these types of training programs available to Davey
employees across the country at all 14 Davey repair shops," Bucciere said.
TRAINING IMPROVES SHOP KNOWLEDGE
NOTES
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Davey employees attend a chipper repair training session at the Kent Shop in June.
