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24 S T U F F • N e w H a m p s h i r e , 2 0 1 8 apple juice was filtered and my vitamins were fil- tered, and stuff like that." Contrary to the common assumption working in a manufacturing company means being near greasy machinery, Lambert says her workplace is spotless. "Since Lonza is a biopharmaceutical manufac- turer, all of our facilities where the manufacturing takes place are very, very clean," she says In fact, she says, ceilings and floors were designed with rounded edges and are made of special material to enable easier maintenance of an ultra-clean environment. And despite the notion working in manufactur- ing means performing repetitive tasks, that clearly is not always the case. The membranes manufactured at Critical Process Filtration, Lavigne says, "are all made dif- ferently, they're all tested differently, and they all have to meet different criteria." Even after a year and a half on the job, she says, "I learn something new every day here." Marketing the taste Stephanie Kellogg, an associate brand manager at Stonyfield in Londonderry, got her first taste, so to speak, of working at Stonyfield as an intern. She realized her own mistaken assumption about manu- facturing when she was surprised to see that the company's office and plant share the same address. "I thought that the plant and the office team were going to be super-segregated and isolated from each other, but that was one thing I've noticed since work- $94,570 Average annual salary of a mechanical engineer in New Hampshire Sarah Lambert has a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering and problem solves issues for customers. "We problem-solve to figure out what's going wrong, and how to fix it while remaining compli- ant," with the U.S. Food & Drug Administration and other regulatory agency requirements. - Sarah Lambert Source: U.S. BLS P H O T O / J E S S I C A A R N O L D Continued from page 23

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