---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000866273-25-000022"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MTRX"
cik: "0000866273"
company_name: "MATRIX SERVICE CO"
filed_at: "2025-05-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-22T23:23:16.814617+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Matrix Service promotes Shawn Payne to President Engineering & Construction; COO Updyke and PDM President Rodgers depart

## Summary
- Shawn P. Payne promoted to newly created President Engineering & Construction role, effective May 5, 2025; oversees operating subsidiaries and client services.
- Alan R. Updyke, COO, and Glyn A. Rodgers, President of Matrix PDM Engineering, left the company effective April 30, 2025.
- Departures are not related to any dispute or disagreement over operations, policies, or practices.
- Each departing executive offered cash severance of 1.5x base salary, continued vesting of RSUs/PPSUs, and 12 months COBRA coverage.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000866273-25-000022
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MTRX
- cik: 0000866273
- company_name: MATRIX SERVICE CO
- filed_at: 2025-05-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/866273/000086627325000022/0000866273-25-000022-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/866273/000086627325000022/mtrx-20250430.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000866273-25-000022.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Alan R. Updyke departed as Chief Operating Officer at MATRIX SERVICE CO.
  - Action: no longer employed
  - Role: Chief Operating Officer
  source text: In connection with this and other organizational changes, effective April 30, 2025, Mr. Alan R. Updyke, Chief Operating Officer of Matrix Service Company and Mr. Glyn A. Rodgers, President of Matrix PDM Engineering, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Matrix will no longer be employed with the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/866273/000086627325000022/0000866273-25-000022-index.htm
- Executive change
  Glyn A. Rodgers departed as President of Matrix PDM Engineering at MATRIX SERVICE CO.
  - Action: no longer employed
  - Role: President of Matrix PDM Engineering
  source text: In connection with this and other organizational changes, effective April 30, 2025, Mr. Alan R. Updyke, Chief Operating Officer of Matrix Service Company and Mr. Glyn A. Rodgers, President of Matrix PDM Engineering, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Matrix will no longer be employed with the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/866273/000086627325000022/0000866273-25-000022-index.htm
- Executive change
  Shawn P. Payne changed role as President Engineering & Construction at MATRIX SERVICE CO.
  - Action: promoted
  - Role: President Engineering & Construction
  source text: Mr. Shawn P. Payne has been promoted to the newly created position of President Engineering & Construction, Matrix Service Company, effective May 5, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/866273/000086627325000022/0000866273-25-000022-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.