Careers in manufacturing can be lucrative and rewarding, but survey responses and recent interviews by IndustryWeek editors also point to another reason to enter the field. People like to see the results of their efforts, and when you leave a plant after a long day of work, you can look at the flow of outgoing material and know that you've done your job.
In this podcast audio from our Oct. 23 livestream conversation, several manufacturing engineers talk about how they ended up in their line of work and why they think young people should consider careers in factories. Senior Editor Laura Putre detailed some results from a recent IW survey in our bi-weekly So That Happened column on Nov. 1.
On this podcast, you'll hear Putre as well as Larry Gates, a process engineering manager for Fortune Brands' Fiberon division, and Salvador Martinez in Costa Rica where he's been a process engineer for 40 years, most recently as a freelance consultant.
Bio: Robert Schoenberger has been writing about manufacturing technology in one form or another since the late 1990s. He began his career in newspapers in South Texas and has worked for The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Mississippi; The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky; and The Plain Dealer in Cleveland where he spent more than six years as the automotive reporter. In 2014, he launched Today's Motor Vehicles (now EV Manufacturing & Design), a magazine focusing on design and manufacturing topics within the automotive and commercial truck worlds. He joined IndustryWeek in late 2021.
