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CNC machine operator,
Waters Corp.
Work location: Milford
Home: Marlborough
Education: Assabet
Valley Regional Technical
High School, advanced
manufacturing program
Salary: Did not disclose
(Machinists generally make
between $25,000 and $61,000
per year, according to the U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics.)
Job duties: Set up machines
for new jobs, inspect and run
machine, inspect output
Career aspirations: To
become an engineer and
start his own business
Off time: David appreciates
the fact the he works a
40-hour week in just three
days, leaving him four days
every week to pursue other
interests.
David
Cabrera, 19
40-hour work week into three long
days. In the other four days, he
helps out with the soccer program
at his old high school, works some
overtime hours or just enjoys the
extra-long weekends.
Fluid dynamics
& heat transfer
Like Cabrera, Julie Fehlman
decided early on that she wanted to
be an engineer.
"I loved math and science, and
engineering was actually a field
you could go into where you could
use those skills and create things,"
she said.
At Union College in New York,
she enjoyed learning about fluid
mechanics and heat transfer. Now,
she puts that knowledge to use at
FLEXcon in Spencer.
Fehlman said manufacturing is a
tough business, with lots of compe-
tition from overseas.
"But that's exactly why we need
people to be in manufacturing,
because we need these jobs to be
in the U.S.," she said.
Fehlman said she sees her job
as helping FLEXcon to operate ef-
ficiently and improve constantly so
that it can keep being the important
institution in the local area.
CSB IS VERY PROUD TO WORK WITH JIM RICHARDSON, PRESIDENT OF
REED & PRINCE MANUFACTURING CORP. OF LEOMINSTER, MA.