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Want a career that offers the potential to make a meaningful positive impact both for your community and individuals across the globe? Look to manufacturing.
Today's vibrant, high-tech manufacturing industry is creating, making and delivering the products and services that have the power to change lives--safer cars, allergy-friendly foods, technologies that help ensure clean water supplies for communities. Careers in this dynamic field encompass a variety of roles in production on sleek factory floors as well as an expanding universe of options in data management, robotics programming, reliability engineering, research and development, and more.
Join Fairygodboss and Influential Women in Manufacturing, a program that honors women who are effecting change in the manufacturing and industrial production space, for a conversation with Linda Freeman, business development manager at Rockwell Automation and an Influential Women in Manufacturing 2018 honoree, about manufacturing's many paths to meaningful, rewarding (and, not for nothing, well-paying!) careers. Discover what manufacturing looks like today and learn how you can help create solutions that impact millions.
During this webinar you'll learn:
- What a career in manufacturing looks like
- The skills you need for a career in manufacturing
- Tips from industry experts to help you when you're first starting out
Read more about how to get a job in manufacturing here.
Meet the speaker
Linda Freeman
Business Development Manager at Rockwell Automation
Since starting her manufacturing career with an internship at a consumer products manufacturing plant, Linda Freeman has accumulated experience in the food and beverage, forest-products, and pharmaceutical sectors. In her current role as business development manager at Rockwell Automation, Freeman works with multiple product groups to develop new products and features that meet the unique automation application needs of customers in the entertainment and theme-park industry. A subject-matter expert in industrial cybersecurity, Freeman created a class on cybersecurity for safety-rated control systems and has taught that class for the past five years. She is a life member and volunteer for the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and was a key developer of the Rockwell Automation Society of Women Engineers (RASWE) employee resource group, which looks to help women attain technical and leadership skills that can prepare them for promotions and success in their careers.