Automatic Pool Covers, Inc. is pleased to announce it has expanded its engineering department by adding four additional engineers to the group.
Lance Delp was hired to the position of engineering manager. Lance has 25 years of experience in product design and manufacturing engineering, and is excited to oversee the rapidly expanding team of engineers at APC. In previous roles, Lance led multiple capital investment projects that generated more than $100 million in revenue. He has experience in the automotive, lighting and transportation industries. Sophie Lutes and Leonard Baker were added to the team as product design engineers. Sophie was hired after graduating with her mechanical engineering degree from Miami University in Ohio. Leonard joined in 2020, bringing 30 years of experience in product design to the team. Leonard joins the team after spending almost three decades with Wabash National: WNC, where he led several multi-million-dollar infrastructure projects and was granted over 20 patents. In addition, Jimmy Redstone joined the engineering team as engineering specialist after working in operations for five years.
The expansion is a part of the company’s commitment to ongoing development and improvement of their products. “We are excited to have these excellent customer-focused engineers join our team, and we look forward to adding more to ensure continued innovation over the next several years,” says Michael Shebek, CEO of the company.