Taylor Putnam
Manufacturing Manager
Playlists
All Videos (30)
- What I Do
- Typical Day
- Career Path
- How Airplanes are Manufactured
- What is Composite Manufacturing
- What are Time Studies
- Different Careers Within Manufacturing Plants
- Why Industrial Engineering
- Why Should Girls Consider a Career in Industrial Engineering
- Skills to Develop
- Education
- Favorite Subjects
- Helpful Teachers
- Skills From Childhood
- Did It Anyway
- Heroes
- Goals
- Staying Motivated
- Mentor and Family Support
- Advice
- Overcoming Obstacles
- Tips for Learning Statistics
- The Importance of Summer Jobs and Student Jobs
- Paying for College
- Importance of Being Emotionally Resilient
- Work-Life Balance
- How to be a Good Leader
- How to Earn Trust as a Leader
- How to Thrive in a Male-Dominated Environment
- Breaking Barriers in Male-Dominated Fields
Bio
Watch Taylor Putnam, Manufacturing Manager at Boeing, share how a typical day for her begins early where she supervises a crew of mechanics that build large scale tooling and access stands for the Boeing 777 and 777x airplanes. She likes working in industrial engineering because she can make a difference by looking for ways to do things better and more efficiently. For girls interested in a career like hers, she advises them to practice their attention to detail and develop good math and statistics skill. To be an industrial engineer you will have to analyze data, and you will have to be good at it.
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