Metallurgy Engineer
Naomi is a metallurgical engineer. She has a bachelor's degree and is currently studying part time for a doctorate, while working. She works for a company that produces iron and steel for industrial use, although she could have chosen to work in the manufacturing industry. Her main responsibility is ensuring that the refining process proceeds as efficiently and cost effectively as possible.
Naomi begins her day by reading through some recent research papers that describe advances in metallurgy. It is important that she keeps up to date with the latest developments in the field. During her degree, Naomi spent some time working on research, and she could have chosen to work in a research department, where she would have spent her time in a lab, using complex equipment to study metals and develop new processes and alloys.
Since she has decided to work in industry instead, Naomi spends her time designing and improving machinery and processing techniques. She works closely with mining engineers to develop better extraction strategies. She spends the rest of her morning looking over data and reports from refineries and other departments within her company, occasionally making a call to clarify some of the details.
After lunch, Naomi drives over to a nearby refinery. She is taken on a tour and then meets with the plant supervisor to discuss plans for replacing some of the equipment with new and improved models. They arrange a schedule for the work that will cause the least possible disturbance to the plant. When she returns to her office, she begins making arrangements for the work in the refinery.
Before she goes home, she also looks over a report from another plant, where there seems to be a fault in the production system that has been reducing the quality of the steel that is produced there. Naomi needs to identify what is causing this problem and find a way to fix it. She performs some calculations and identifies a few possible causes that she will need to investigate further.
