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Sara Franco decided to pursue construction to have an overview of
after realizing she would enjoy a career where the whole manufacturing
each day could be vastly different, and she also process of one of these
thought it would be interesting to be involved units. To overcome this,
in multiple moving parts of the construction I engaged senior team
process. Just over a year ago, Sara attended a members Andy Davis,
Society of Women’s Engineering Conference and Manufacturing Engineer
was introduced to the company. Shortly after, in and Mitch Breit, Quality Sara Franco
January 2022, Sara joined Anderson Dahlen as a Assurance Supervisor, that Engineer, Quality
12 Quality Engineer immediately upon receiving her were more knowledgeable
master’s degree. about the processes that occur and together
In her time with Anderson Dahlen, Sara has faced leveraged resources to meet the project
a few challenges as is standard in any position. deadlines.”
“A project I was charged with was standardizing Currently, one of Sara’s projects is an inspection
process and criteria for fully assembled painted
"Don’t be afraid to ask Reliant/Onto units.
“I’m also putting together multiple training
questions of your more senior guides for the quality inspection check and
team members; they are more hardware acceptance testing that occurs once a
positioned to teach you things ThermoFisher unit has been fully assembled,” said
Sara. “In addition, I facilitate the non-conforming
that you may not have thought parts that occur during the manufacturing process
to ask or think about in a or parts that have been received in by a vendor.”
As a Gray team member who is relatively new to
different way." the company, Sara’s advice to others is as follows:
“Don’t be afraid to ask questions of your more
the inspection process of finalized units,” said senior team members; they are more positioned to
Sara. “The challenge was – as a new team teach you things that you may not have thought to
member getting up to speed with the workings of ask or think about in a different way.”
the manufacturing plant – that it was necessary
