Justin Spaeth

Justin joins the Grainger Center after working as an electrical controls engineer for Alkar-RapidPak, an original equipment manufacturer that makes processing and packaging machines for the food industry. He worked on an international platform to design, manage, and provide support for the electrical and control needs of the RapidPak thermoforming machines and Alkar ovens. Most notably, he took on major troubleshooting duties to free up the engineering team for more design-oriented projects, thus allowing the company to adapt the use of new technology. He also provided custom programming that allowed customers to verify the packaging process in a way that would alert maintenance teams with problems, providing the means for problems to be solved faster, with less finished product being wasted on bad packaging.

Justin graduated with an electrical engineering degree from the University of Wisconsin–Platteville and plans to take the field experience gained in operations and the lessons learned from the Grainger Center to lead projects dealing with all areas of the supply chain.