Emerson Projects Organization
Done Before
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Agenda
Emerson and Organizational Overview
Career Planning
What We Do Daily
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Emerson At-a-Glance
$24.4 Billion in sales
Diversified global manufacturer and
technology provider
Approximately 133,000 employees worldwide
Headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri USA
NYSE: EMR
Manufacturing and/or sales presence in more than 150 countries
235 manufacturing locations worldwide
No. 123 on 2013 FORTUNE 500 list of America s largest corporations
Founded in 1890
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Ready To Serve: Nearly 300 Global Locations
Asia Pacific:47 Locations
Middle East &
Africa:15 Locations
Latin America33 Locations
North America:139 Locations
Europe:47 Locations
Russia, CISB:8 Locations
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Projects Overview
Applications Engineering
We configure software programs developed by our
Similar to how you use MATLAB (developed by MathWorks) to complete school projects.
Here in Austin our customers are in the life sciences industry, but there are other groups at Emerson who work to automate other industries.
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Process Control
Everyday examples:
Thermostat: Automatically adjusts heating and cooling to stay within range of set temperature.
Cruise Control: Automatically adjusts car throttle to maintain desired vehicle speed.
Industrial examples:
Tank level
Fluid flow
Pressure
Temperature
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Why Automation?
Apply process control to automate manufacturing.
Control and optimize production
Life Sciences Industry
Highly automated
FDA regulated
Need for consistency and precision
Worldwide need for better, faster, cheaper treatments
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Career Development and Career Planning
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Learn About Yourself
What are your strengths?
What do you enjoy?
People problems
Technical challenges
Business challenges
What kind of a lifestyle do you want to have?
Travel
Hours
Flexibility
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Be Professional
Pay attention to the way you are perceived. Notice successful people, in general.
Strive to be someone that people like to work with.
Everyone has to pay their dues.
ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't
Mark Twain
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Constantly Improve Yourself
Develop your technical skills
Job-related technology
Evolving technology and business trends
Understand the business
Make yourself useful
Know what impacts the bottom line
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Keep an Open Mind
Develop your soft skills
Handling difficult people situations
Dealing with ambiguity
Priority setting
Presentation skills
Decision making
Solicit feedback
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Seek Mentoring
Types
Formal
Informal
Networking
Identify at least one key mentor
In your organization
You respect
Does work you are interested in
Solicit Feedback from Mentors and Supervisors
Strengths
Areas for improvement
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Understand the Career Paths
Examples
Technical ladder
Project management
People management
Sales
Marketing
Consider lateral moves
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Continuing Education
Focus on the opportunities that the additional skills will enable, not the pedigree
Consider all impacts on your career
Resigning or taking sabbatical
For part-time graduate school
Quality of work at the office
What if you put the same effort into your day job?
Investigate the options
Also look at professional learning that is not part of a degree
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Questions to Ask Yourself
What kind of work would I enjoy?
Research, Design, Manufacturing?
Office, Plant, Lab?
Travel? How much?
What kind of company do I want to work for?
Large
Stable/Predictable
Structured
Values
Career paths
Training
Mentoring
Benefits
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Questions to Ask Yourself
Entrepreneurial
High Risk/High Reward
Fluid/Dynamic
Find your own way
Limited rules or policies
What type of culture do you want?
Casual or Formal?
Structured or Unstructured?
Collaborative or Competitive?
Open or Closed?
Location
City or Rural?
South, East, North, or West?
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What We Do
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Execute Projects
Projects last anywhere from about 6 months 2 years.
Project teams are often comprised of a diverse group of individuals from Emerson offices around the world.
Various skill sets and experience levels.
Team members may work on all phases of the project.
All levels of the project have opportunities to interface/work with the customer.
Not far removed from the end user.
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Project Methodology
What we do daily.
FEED Design PhaseImplementation
& TestingOn-site Testing
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Relevant Skills/Experiences
Courses/Projects/Research/Internship in a team setting
Demonstrated leadership skills
Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
Planning and organization skills
Time management skills
Experience with programming languages
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Relevant Qualities
Self-motivated
Strong communication skills
Keen attention to detail
Big-picture oriented
Innovative approach to problems
Interest in pharmaceutical and biotech companies
Ability to work in collaborative, problem solving teams
Willingness to travel to customer sites
Creative
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Who we are looking for
In Austin we typically hire Biomedical and ChemicalEngineers for the projects group.
In other offices, we hire Mechanical, Electrical, or Computer Science/Computer Engineering.
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Questions?
Thanks for listening!
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