Crown Holdings: Inspiring Inclusion on the Production Floor - And Everywhere

NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / March 13, 2024 / Crown Holdings, Inc.

On International Women's Day 2024, Crown and Signode reinforce commitments to empowering women in all professional roles

With 25,000 employees across 195 locations, our organization is widespread and reflects a diverse range of roles-everything from engineering and design to quality and safety. In all of these roles, we aim to build an environment that empowers women and supports their ability to pursue a fulfilling career path with Crown.

We are continuously striving to give women more opportunities beyond the traditional office roles and to help them advance in any area of the Company. Lately, we've been concentrating on hiring more women for technical jobs like mechanics, forklift drivers, quality controllers and production leaders. It's essential to understand that these jobs aren't just for men. Anyone, regardless of gender, can have the skills needed for success in these roles.

As we kick off International Women's Day 2024, which aims to #inspireinclusion, we spotlight some of the initiatives around women directly working in our production environment. One example includes a specialized "Women in Industry" development program conducted by our Brazil team. A social and professional project developed by Crown, the course was designed to teach valuable technical skills to women within the communities where we operate.

"This initiative was a way to offer development to women, who would like to work in the industrial area, but have not yet had the opportunity. We paved the path for their dreams to come true and with this, more women are being recognized and valued in the job market. This year we will do even more, expanding this project to other regions where our plants are located," said Eliane Rigolo, HR Director - Crown Brazil.

The program provides 164 hours of content around various subjects related to our can production process. Through this initiative, our goal is to empower women to pursue careers at Crown and to prepare them for industrial roles specifically.

We initially ran a pilot program in Ponta Grossa, Brazil and attracted a total of 315 candidates. From this pool of applicants, 20 women were selected to attend the course, and after completion, several were employed as mechanics in one of our facilities. Others are still part of our talent pool, having gained valuable skills and qualifications to enhance their resumes.