Monday, December 7, 2009

Hibbing Taconite Job Shadow

This morning, at the bright and early time of 7 a.m., Dan and I started a week of job shadowing at Hibbing Taconite. We are shadowing quite a variety of Cliffs Natural Resources engineers. For the first half of the week, I am shadowing plant engineering. My time is split between Todd Pocquette--electrical engineer and head of plant engineering, and Bill Janicki--mechanical engineer. Dan is shadowing in the concentrating department with Jon Eng--reliability engineer. At mid week, Dan and I will switch, so we can get a better understanding of the diversity of the different engineering positions in just a week.

The first day went very well. We started with a short safety video on Hibbing Taconite operations, and shortly thereafter, Dana Koth led us on a very informative tour from which we gained a good understanding of the site and site operations. At the end of the tour, Dan and I split to begin our shadowing. After a very jam packed day, our heads were spinning with the new knowledge and excitement of the projects to come. Look for an update on our projects later in the week.

Proofed by Bill and Dan

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