Logan Aluminum’s vision is to maintain an organization and working environment which demonstrates the capability over time to substantially outperform the competition in the areas of Safety, Quality, Productivity, Cost and Culture. Logan Aluminum strives for this vision by pursuing a fundamental change in the way we think about people and work. The benefits of team culture include greater productivity, increased quality, flexibility of operations, lower cost, opportunity to treat all employees as Business Partners, appropriate level decision making, all allowing full utilization of the team member.
Logan Aluminum will demonstrate continual improvement in our capabilities to create value for our associates, customers, and team members by maintaining leadership positions in product quality, customer service, cost, safety and environmental performance. We will accomplish this through progressive management concepts and innovative use of technology, our physical assets and human resources.
To be recognized as the best in the world at what we do!
The success of Logan Aluminum is derived from its Work System. The foundation of this Work System is our principles and value-driven teams and their ability to manage the business. Each day team members make decisions that directly impact safety, quality, customer satisfaction, productivity, reliability, and cost.
To be recognized as the best in the world at what we do!
Logan is a principle-based organization. These principles provide a foundation for how we make decisions and provide a tool to monitor our own behavior. It is up to team members to incorporate the principles into their daily work lives and interactions with one another.
There is nothing more important than our safety.
Treat all resources like management resources.
We expect to employ mature, responsible people.
Success of the individual and the organization are interdependent.
Continuous improvement is paramount.
We have a participative business, not a permissive business.
Back-to-face confrontation is not acceptable.
We are accountable for our actions and our words.
Specific decision-making boundaries exist within the organization.
We exist in a dynamic business environment.
Team Members are accountable for understanding and supporting business decisions.
The Logan Aluminum selection was designed to attract, empower, develop and retain highly motivated, team-oriented, risk conscious employees. The selection process includes aptitude testing, skills testing, behavior-based interview, assessment center that evaluates 14 behavioral characteristics, team interviewing and an extensive new hire orientation.
Our total rewards system is designed to attract and retain team members by providing a cost-effective compensation and benefits package and rewarding team members for both the development of individual skills and the positive contributions to the performance of the team, business unit and Logan Aluminum. This compensation system is comprised of Pay & Progression (the more you learn, the more you earn for technicians, and Merit Pay System for Staff positions.
The Logan Aluminum Appraisal system operates with a peer-based appraisal process, to assure that the highest level of quality input is available, a common understanding of expectations is achieved and exercised, continual improvement becomes the focus, and teams take ownership of performance issues. The system consists of peer appraisals for all operating and general technicians and uses a Pay & Progression Point System. Our staff position appraisals consist of a work plan and review, which uses competencies, goals and assessments.
Team meetings offer a forum where all team members are actively involved in communicating business information and resolving day-to-day issues. Operating teams hold 30-minute meetings at the start and end of each shift. Administrative teams hold weekly or monthly meetings.
The Logan Aluminum STAR Concept is part of a team management philosophy that provides the framework for self-management. Roles are assigned to peers within each team who are responsible for Safety, Quality, Personnel, Production and Administration duties. These roles are rotated among all team members. This supports the growth and development of the team and business.
The Logan Education Development (LED) System supports the development of a well-trained and flexible workforce. It operates as a Corporate University, offering 600-800 internal classes and 40,000 training hours each year. It offers instructional resources, both internally and externally, that cover a variety of topics including technical, safety, behavioral, leadership and team skills.
The specific words describing the business values at Logan have shifted over the years. The spirit has remained constant. Logan has historically focused on providing a safe work environment to all team members. The quality of the Logan products has been a critical value since the early years as the plant was establishing a customer base and the "Logan Aluminum brand.”
Meeting performance targets has been a core focus for decades at Logan. This has been consistently accomplished through leveraging the ideas of the Logan people in how to improve the business. While the strategy has shifted between a focus on optimization and efficiency to growth through capital, Logan has always held a forward-thinking mindset.
Each year, Logan Aluminum prepares a strategic plan to present to our owners. The plan is called the THRIVE Plan and focuses on 5 main areas:
The purpose of the THRIVE Plan is to prepare an analysis of the future potential of Logan Aluminum with an initial focus on achieving operating excellence in the rolled aluminum sheet market. The plan benchmarks Logan Aluminum against “world class” and establishes a viable future state.
Since its founding, Logan Aluminum has been dedicated to Logan County and South Central Kentucky. Logan Aluminum believes it is our duty to support our community, protect the environment in which we work and live, and provide leadership in state and local organizations.
Our owners and employees volunteer and financially support national, regional and local organizations such as United Way of Southern Kentucky, Junior Achievement, American Cancer Society, Western Kentucky University, Southern Kentucky Community and Technical College, local volunteer fire departments and youth sports teams.
To protect the environment, Logan Aluminum provides training and supports local recycling efforts in our school systems. Logan Aluminum team members at all levels serve on local and state boards, hold political office in city, county governments and on local school boards. Logan Aluminum as a corporation supports national and state-wide initiatives on safety, education, workforce development, entrepreneurship and wellness.
