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E.A. Bonelli + Associates (“the Company”), a Stratus® Team company and a leader in the master planning and design of processing plants, cold storage warehouses and distribution facilities for the dairy, food and beverage industries, announced the appointment of Aaron J. Abert as plant support director.
The addition reflects the Company’s continued investment in expanding its plant operations and maintenance services, increasing capacity, and supporting a growing volume of projects. In this role, Abert will lead the development and direction of the Company’s plant support division, strengthening a service area that has grown out of E.A. Bonelli + Associates’ long-standing commitment to helping clients improve, maintain, and optimize facility performance.
Abert brings more than 20 years of experience across engineering, maintenance, operations, and supply chain leadership. Throughout his career, he has led large multidisciplinary teams, managed complex engineering and maintenance environments, and delivered measurable operational improvements across multiple facilities. His background includes oversight of maintenance and facilities across manufacturing and distribution sites, responsibility for significant operating budgets, and leadership of large engineering and maintenance teams.
He brings deep experience in equipment reliability, predictive and preventive maintenance, energy efficiency, and facility performance, with a focus on continuous improvement. His work includes improving uptime, implementing structured maintenance strategies, leading capital projects, and supporting operational transformation, with technical expertise aligned to the Company’s plant support services across facility systems, safety, structural, and operational evaluations.
The Company’s plant support services help clients maintain, evaluate, and improve facility performance with a focus on reliability, compliance, and long-term operational success. Services include facility assessments, system evaluations, code and insurance reviews, sanitary analyses, energy-efficiency recommendations, and structural and building-envelope evaluations, often evolving into long-term partnerships.
For more than six decades, E.A. Bonelli + Associates has remained at the forefront of industrial architecture and engineering, combining a client-focused approach with deep expertise in food safety, facility design, and process integration. The Company’s experience spans FDA, USDA, PMO, SQF, and BRC requirements, as well as ISO standards for cleanroom air cycling and sanitation, with projects ranging from targeted remodels to large-scale expansions and new facilities nationwide.
The creation of this leadership role marks an important step in the Company’s continued growth strategy. By dedicating leadership and resources to plant support services, E.A. Bonelli + Associates is increasing its capacity to serve more clients, support a greater volume of projects, and further strengthen its specialized expertise and widened service offerings through Stratus®.
As a Stratus® Team company, E.A. Bonelli + Associates is backed by a highly collaborative national organization with a deep bench of engineering, architecture, and consulting expertise across industries. That connection enhances the Company’s ability to deliver broader capabilities, specialized knowledge, and coordinated service to clients nationwide, while reinforcing the high standard of excellence that has long defined E.A. Bonelli + Associates.
“E.A. Bonelli + Associates has built its reputation on delivering thoughtful, technically sound solutions that support our clients’ operations at every stage,” said Scott Savage, president of E.A. Bonelli + Associates. “Aaron’s experience enhances our ability to scale those capabilities in a more focused and deliberate way. Combined with the strength and resources of Stratus®, this appointment represents a natural progression of our work, enabling us to deliver that same high standard of service with greater depth, expanded capabilities, and increased capacity.”
