Cathy Jones has reached an impressive 30-year milestone with Lakeside Book Company. Over three decades, Jones has built a diverse career through a willingness to learn, embrace new challenges, and take on opportunities across multiple areas of business. Her journey has spanned manufacturing, engineering, administration, quality, training, and safety, with contributions throughout the Crawfordsville division and other RR Donnelley, LSC Communications and Lakeside Book Company facilities.
The journey began in the bindery as a disc inserter operator and feeder, followed by a move to the pressroom as a utility employee. From there, career opportunities expanded into engineering and human resources/training, providing administrative support and working with various computer systems.
The next chapter brought opportunities in quality and safety, serving as a quality assurance coordinator, quality lead and safety lead. During this time, she also collaborated with other book manufacturing facilities during a computer system implementation project. This included developing training manuals and providing training for supervisors and employees across multiple locations.
Today, Jones serves as the site safety coordinator for the Crawfordsville facility and as a special government employee for IOSHA. These roles reflect the knowledge and experience developed throughout their career, along with a continued commitment to workplace safety, employee engagement and continuous improvement.
Beyond the workplace, Jones enjoys photography, laser engraving, 3D printing and traveling.
She is also actively involved in her community, serving as a town council member for the town
of Russellville and participating in Russellville Community Church and the Russellville Community Center.
Family is an important part of life as well. Jones enjoys spending time with her brother, William; sister Sue; niece Alisa and her husband, Jonathan; and nephew Aaron.
