About Us – Bakery Ovens

Founded in 1949 by Joseph M. Day P.E., the roots of the company are in the baking industry. He gained extensive background in the baking industry through education at the Siebel Institute of Technology in Chicago (forerunner of AIB) and as a project engineer with Baker Perkins (Saginaw, Michigan) and chief engineer with AMF, Oven Division (New Haven, Connecticut).

As with most entrepreneurs, this knowledge and experience formed the basis of the company. From this foundation Banner-Day grew as a specialist in automatic gas and oil combustion and control systems, focused primarily in bakery applications. In the late 1970s, development work was started on the application of solid-state ignition/flame rectification modules on direct-fired gas ovens. This work resulted in what is known today as "direct spark ignition" or DSI systems. DSI systems are the center of today's fully automated oven control systems. Additional design highlights include patents for an oven electrical "Power Interruption Protection" (PIP^®) gas train system and a "rectification ignitor" for ribbon burners, which vastly improves the reliability of these DSI systems.

The Banner-Day team is focused on customer needs, continually doing research and development work to improve the safety, automation and flexibility of high-production bakery ovens, enhance product quality and reduce gas and electric utility costs.

Culture and Benefits

Culture

Dedicated to customer service, Banner-Day’s work environment encourages creativity and innovation. A highly responsive customer focus fosters an entrepreneurial spirit with a talented staff that collaborates to provide the best solutions for our customers. As a family owned business, the family’s core principles of honesty and integrity form the basis for profitable growth.

Successful Banner-Day team members are reliable, responsible, hardworking individuals with positive attitudes. We serve diverse markets locally, nationally and internationally through extensive experience in combustion systems and application engineering provided through the company’s divisions.

The work is challenging and rewarding for all team members, encouraging each member to extend their skills beyond their immediate assignment and responsibility. Banner-Day offers employees the opportunity to wear multiple hats and grow personally and collectively to enhance the performance and growth of the company.

Benefits

Holidays

Banner-Day observes the following paid holidays:

• New Year’s Day
• Good Friday
• Memorial Day
• Independence Day
• Labor Day
• Thanksgiving Day (Thursday and Friday)
• Christmas Day

Vacation and Personal Time Off

We believe annual vacations and time away from work are necessary to permit one to become refreshed physically and mentally. Therefore, we urge employees to use all of their vacation days annually with at least one uninterrupted vacation week. Paid Time Off (PTO) is earned on a monthly basis. Employees may use PTO for sickness, vacations, funerals and personal time.

Group Insurance

Employees are eligible for participation in the company’s group health and prescription plan. Coverage also includes Medical and Long Term Disability coverage.

Flexible Spending Plan

The Flexible Spending Plan enables employees to voluntarily pay insurance premium co-pays from salary/wages on a pre-tax basis. Also permits reimbursement for all IRS allowable medical and/or dependent care expenses with pretax monies. Along with pre-tax deductions for medical premiums, we offer Medical Reimbursement for other out-of-pocket medical expenses. Dollars you spend that your health insurance does not cover: i.e. office and prescription co-pay, dental, glasses/contacts and more.

401K Plan

Banner-Day sponsors a 401(k) Retirement Plan for eligible employees that includes a 25% match on the first 5% contributed.

Training and Education Opportunities

At Banner-Day, we encourage an attitude of life-long learning and forward thinking. Training and education opportunities include:

• Continuing education
• Professional development via seminars, classes and workshops
• Routine and varied in-house training classes
• Professional registration studies
• Technical and professional organization participation
• Technical paper publication

You too can be a part of this exciting, collaborative and rewarding work environment, so contact us to get started today exploring your opportunity with the team at Banner-Day.

For more information, contact us.