Maxim Crane Works Names New Chief Human Resource Officer
Crane rental giant Maxim Crane Works L.P. has named Sonja Narcisse as chief human resource officer. In this role, Narcisse will be responsible for leading the company’s centralized human resources for Maxim’s national branch footprint, including talent management, learning and development, and compensation and benefits.
“Sonja will be a critical partner in achieving Maxim Crane’s growth strategy,” said Paul McDonnell, CEO, Maxim Crane Works. “Her expertise and track record in driving complex change in organizations, combined with her commitment to people and passion for creating a high-performance culture, will serve us well as the employer and service provider of choice for the industry.”
“I am thrilled to join Maxim Crane at such an exciting time in the business,” said Narcisse. “By setting the right culture, investing in our employees, and collaborating with this team of industry experts, we will enhance our organizational effectiveness and drive profitable growth for Maxim.”
Narcisse has been a leader in all aspects of human resources for more than three decades. She most recently served as the senior vice president of human resources at a private equity company in the pet care industry. Before this, Narcisse was senior vice president of human resources and chief human resource officer at Tronox and vice president of human resources for Heinz North America. She also served as group vice president of human resources for Alcoa and spent 22 years with Weyerhaeuser, an international forest products company.
Narcisse is also heavily involved in her community. She has served on the H.J. Heinz Company Foundation boards, the Stamford Museum and Nature Center, and the Yale-New Haven Bridgeport Hospital Foundation board of directors. She is currently on the board of directors for Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo and the Sawubona Foundation for Mental Health.
Maxim Crane Works, Wilder, Ky., is No. 6 on the RER 100.
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Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.