# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0000080420
**File Stem:** 0000080420-25-000087
**Filing Date:** 2025-7
**Character Count:** 5960
**Document Hash:** 67d12b1facef62c3dba00c16f1de45a5
**Contains OCR:** False
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0000080420-25-000087.hdr.sgml**: 20250722

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0000080420-25-000087

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 8-K

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 12

**CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT**: 20250718

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20250722

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20250722

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** POWELL INDUSTRIES INC
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0000080420
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** SWITCHGEAR & SWITCHBOARD APPARATUS [3613]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 04 Manufacturing
- **EIN:** 880106100
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** NV
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 0930

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 8-K
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 001-12488
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251140494

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 8550 MOSLEY DR
- **STREET 2:** POST OFFICE BOX 12818
- **CITY:** HOUSTON
- **STATE:** TX
- **ZIP:** 77075
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 7139446900

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 8550 MOSLEY DRIVE P O BOX 12818
- **STREET 2:** 8550 MOSLEY DRIVE P O BOX 12818
- **CITY:** HOUSTON
- **STATE:** TX
- **ZIP:** 77075

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** PROCESS SYSTEMS INC
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 19780926

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**UNITED STATES**

**SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION**

**WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549**

**FORM 8-K**

**CURRENT REPORT**

**PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)**

**OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934**

**Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): July 18, 2025**

**POWELL INDUSTRIES, INC.**

**(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)**

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| **Delaware** | **001-12488** | **88-0106100** |
| **(State or other jurisdiction of<br>incorporation)** | **(Commission<br>File Number)** | **(IRS Employer<br>Identification No.)** |

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|:---|:---|:---|:---|
| **8550 Mosley Road,** | **Houston,** | **Texas** | **77075** |
| **(Address of principal executive offices)** | **(Address of principal executive offices)** | **(Address of principal executive offices)** | **(Zip Code)** |

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**(713) 944-6900**

**(Registrant's Telephone Number, Including Area Code)**

**N/A**

**(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)**

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

☐ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

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☐ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

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| **Title of each class** | **Trading Symbol** | **Name of each exchange on which registered** |
| **Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share** | **POWL** | **Nasdaq Global Market** |

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

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**Item 5.02 – Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.**

On July 18, 2025, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of Powell Industries, Inc. (the "Company"), upon recommendation of the Nominating and Governance Committee of the Board, increased the size of the Board from eight to nine directors and appointed Mark W. Smith to fill the newly created directorship with a term scheduled to begin on August 1, 2025 and expire at the Company's annual stockholder meeting in 2027 or until his successor is duly elected and qualified. Mr. Smith will serve as a member of the Audit Committee of the Board.

There are no arrangements or understandings between Mr. Smith and any other person pursuant to which he was selected as a director. The Company is not aware of any transaction in which Mr. Smith has an interest requiring disclosure under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.

Mr. Smith will be compensated for his service on the Board under the Company's standard arrangement for non-employee directors described in its proxy statement for the 2025 annual meeting of stockholders (which arrangement may be updated from time to time) and will receive an initial stock award approved by the Board under the 2014 Non-Employee Director Equity Incentive Plan valued at $50,000, which represents a 50% proration of the annual stock award received by each of the Company's non-employee directors in February 2025. Such initial stock award will vest one calendar year from August 1, 2025.

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**SIGNATURES**

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

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| Date: July 22, 2025 |  |  |
|  | Powell Industries, Inc. | Powell Industries, Inc. |
|  | By: | /s/ Michael W. Metcalf |
|  |  | Michael W. Metcalf |
|  |  | Executive Vice President |
|  |  | Chief Financial Officer |
|  |  | (Principal Financial and Principal Accounting Officer) |

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