Why Work At Southworth
Southworth provides a challenging work environment complemented by a family friendly, fun atmosphere. Southworth employees appreciate that their contribution to the company’s success will be rewarded with generous benefits, ample time off, and competitive pay. A strong wellness and employee development program accompanied by activities such as cookouts, corporate outings, and onsite activities make Southworth a great place to work!
We continually strive to ensure that the wage and benefits program attracts the extraordinary people we seek. The employees of Southworth are the main drivers of our success for over a century.
As partners in our pursuit of excellence, Southworth offers an attractive wage and benefit program.
- Choice of two Health and Prescription Drug Plans
- Dental Plan – 100% Employer paid
- Vision Plan
- Life, Short Term and Long-Term Disability Programs
- Health and Wellness Program
- Flexible Spending Program for Health and Dependent Care
- 401k Plan with Employer Match
- Generous Paid Time Off for Vacation, Holiday, and Sick Time
- Tuition Reimbursement Program
- Employee Training and Development Program
Corporate Culture
Southworth offers a culture where employees can contribute to the success of the company while excelling individually in their careers. The environment at Southworth enforces appreciation of everyone’s professional input while offering a relaxed and fun atmosphere, celebrated with cookouts, games, gatherings, and volunteer opportunities.
A community garden is part of our wellness program.
Southworth volunteers work at a company sponsored public walking trail.
The Outing Club prepares for a hike with some rock wall training.
Arkansas employees are recognized with an Above and Beyond award.
Employees answer the question: What does this organization do that makes it a place where people would want to work?
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The largest and influential logistics equipment exhibition in Asia - Asia international logistics technology and transportation system exhibition 2019 ended in Shanghai New International Expo Center
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Dandy Lift, a product series of the Southworth Portable Hydraulic Lift Tables, comes in different models and can be used in various scenarios
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Versatile System-Controlled Lift Table Assembly with Outstanding Precision and Reliability
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In-line with our Go To Market Expansion Plan, we successful signed up our 2nd batch of 18 New Distributors for Southworth China on December 6th 2019. Starting off from our 1st open house/ road show where we signed up 16 New Distributors on July 15th 2019, we now have a total of 34 New Distributors to Promote our products across Mainland China.
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Safety and high efficiency have always been the operation requirements of the assembly line. The orders from our long-term cooperative customer, a large forklift manufacturing center in Jinan, Shandong Province，China
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SOUTHWORTH has enjoyed a high reputation in the field of turning and tilting equipment for years. Click here to get more information about our tilter products. Today, we are proud to present this customized container tilter with a load capacity of 20 tons, which platform is 12m long and 3m wide.
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3,000 workers die in production every day around the world, 2 deaths per minute, 1.1 million people die at work around the world every year. Worldwide, nearly 250 million workers are harmed in the production process each year, 160 million workers suffer from occupational diseases
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Safety, efficiency, automation, and customization have been the key indicators for material transportation in the auto parts industry all the time. A Guangzhou Auto Parts company, as a customer of SOUTHWORTH, put forward higher requirements for fine management of materials with its rapid increase of orders and expansion of the business scale in recent years, and therefore since 2018
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We are exhibiting at CeMAT ASIA 2023 at Shanghai New International Expo Center,
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Each link in logistics transportation is complementary to each other, and its rationalization and systematization are effective ways to improve logistics efficiency and save cost.
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The packaging industry has called for a safe and efficient solution to a long-standing major challenge concerning material handling, which entails a series of processes to handle a variety of material of different weights and volumes, among other things, including receiving and handling the incoming material, moving the material to the warehouse and flowing finished products from the production lines onto the trucks.
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As a benchmark in the industry, SOUTHWORTH can not only provide standardized tilters
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Southworth provides hydraulic scissor lift tables. We have wide product line and flexible range of modifications
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SOUTHWORTH lift tables are extensively used in assembling, inspections and spraying of vehicles, engine assembling, brake pad manufacturing, tyre assembling, seat mounting and dismounting and other occasions in the auto industry.
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When a common lift table is lowered to the lowest level, the bottom of the platform will be roughly 20 to 25 cm above the floor. At this time, it needs to be used in conjunction with a forklift truck or stacker crane.
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Southworth offers the product line of pallet levelers, pallet lifting equipment and pallet handling products. The flagship is the PalletPal Spring Level Loader, the product that revolutionized manual pallet loading and unloading in North America.
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As the clean energy industry develops rapidly, its demand for high-purity graphite has risen sharply. The primary problem to be solved by clean energy companies is how to transport large and heavy raw materials to the processing position and lift them to the heat treatment reacting furnaces during smelting, processing, ingot casting and other technological processes.
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
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Southworth High Lift achieve a multi - stage arm plate combination design. The perfect combination of boom is the hydraulic lifting platform which has reached the standard of industrial grade at present.
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Recently, SOUTHWORTH has developed a custom lift table combining lifting, lateral tilting (LH & RH) and moving functions for a large-scale wind energy company in China in order to facilitate the installation of parts of the equipment under various working conditions.
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In daily handling, various bending and stretching actions may hurt workers' health
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SOUTHWORTH Shanghai brings its classic lifting solutions to AMTS
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Manual, repetitive pick-and-place responsibilities present challenges when it comes to finding solutions that work for all shapes and sizes, weights and dimensions—both for workers and the products.
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Southworth loading Dock lift is special auxiliary equipment for cargo loading and unloading used in conjunction with the forklift.
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In the casting workshop of a multinational enterprise's mechanical manufacturing center for spare parts
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LiftMat™ low profile lift tables from Southworth Products have a lowered height of just 3¼ inches, substantially lower than conventional lift tables. With a focus on ergonomics, these lift tables increase productivity and improve worker safety in a wide range of industrial applications.
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Industrial ergonomic equipment should always make sure to bring the product a worker is trying to handle or move to a neutral ergonomic position
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Accessing parts in containers is one of the most significant productivity thieves in any manufacturing or assembly operation.
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If your warehouse or DC is picking orders like this...then you have problems!
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Starting from our former shanghai facility Feng Xian operations, I joined Southworth Shanghai at the end of 2006 and was promoted as Director, Finance in the year 2017
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Recently, SOUTHWORTH team worked with a customer focusing on production of innovative materials in order to discuss and design an ideal solution for transporting materials between different floors
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Southworth Lift Tables provide support for long work pieces and large sheets, bringing them to any desired height, reducing the risk of injury.
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In unprecedented times, everyone business is being challenged – resulting in government mandated shutdowns, employees absenteeism , materials shortages , logistics issues etc
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Air Cargo Lifts from Southworth are high-capacity, heavy-duty scissor lifts designed to speed
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Speaking of lifting tables,What's your impression?
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Background - Warehouse Logistics Requirements of a Metal Products ManufacturerThe customer is a large manufacturer specializing in metal products and plays the role of a global leader in the industry.With high attention to the aesthetic design and tidy arrangement, there should be no compromise for the customer in maintaining the overall style of the factory in every detail.
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An ergonomically designed workplace is imperative to improve worker safety for the aging workforce and the bottom line BY KATIE KUEHNER-HEBERT
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'We have a long history of cooperation with SOUTHWORTH. Though our assembly workshop has been updated through several reconstructions and expansions over the past years, we are always using Working platforms from SOUTHWORTH, which has proved to be a wise choice!' The equipment manager from a world leading household appliance manufacturer said this to SOUTHWORTH's team when discussing the solution to be provided for their assembly workshop.
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Before installing safety equipment, companies need to make sure that it doesn’t create new hazards while guarding against others, said Aaron Conway, president of MHI member Mezzanine Safeti-Gates and chair of the MHI Industry Group ProGMA.
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Merry Christmas!Happy New Year!
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Recently, the application of PalletPal 360 in beverage DC distribution center benefits customers a lot. The operation process of the distribution center is very typical, and the efficiency has been greatly improved since the use of our lifting platform. Therefore, we summarize the specific operation of the center and share it with you.
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The loading Dock lift is special auxiliary equipment for cargo loading and unloading used in conjunction with the forklift.
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In recent years, 'automation', 'flexibility' and 'intelligence' have become the key words of food packaging conveyors, especially for production lines used to filling heavy food and beverages.
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In-line with SAPAC (Southworth- Asia Pacific) 5 Years’ Stratplan (Strategic Plan) to double our regions’ sales revenue through delivering “Cost Competitive & World Class Quality Products”, the new supply chain team was established officially on August 8th 2018.
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Southworth's pre-sales team surveyed the material handling line and supporting facilities on site and customized a U-shaped lift solution.
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The lift table with turntable generally has both two functions: rotation and lifting, which can realize one-way or left and right two-way rotation of the table, with the rotation angle between 0° and 360°. In the process of sorting some materials or special assembly, the table with turntable can bring a lot of convenience to workers and greatly improve work efficiency.
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Excitement was in the air in China on July 18th 2019 when we hosted James Cabot – Southworth Corporate New Chief Executive Officer & Executive Leadership , Steve Albert- SVP Sales – SAMS and Martin Pambor VP Sales S-EMEA in Shanghai.
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Southworth celebrations on officially inaugurate of New Wuxi Factory reported by Ifeng net.
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After months of planning, coordination and hard work, project Southworth Asia Pacific (S-APAC) was finally completed and we held celebrations to officially inaugurate both New Shanghai Office and New Wuxi Factory on March 27th / March 28th respectively.