Maite Mauri Age: 31*


SME Senior Chapter 39 Seattle, WA


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s the child of two engineers, Maite Mauri seemed destined for manufacturing. “I have always found manufacturing and STEM fascinating,” she says. “The smell of machines—coolant and cut metal—is familiar and almost comforting to me.”


While studying manufacturing engineering at Cali-


fornia State University, Long Beach, Maite was Chair of the school’s SME Student Chapter and led her school’s team in the WESTEC Manufacturing Challenge. The team received third place after a decade-long hiatus from the event.


“As one of the organizers of the Challenge for several


years, I know Ms. Mauri was a winner in many ways,” says Ed Halloran, President, HALCO Management Systems, who nominated Maite. As a judge for the Wil- liam B. Johnson Leadership in Manufacturing Award, Ed voted for Maite to receive the award—and she won. “Ed’s encouragement into taking more challenging leadership positions, his stubborn belief in me, and his invaluable advice every step of the way are something I highly treasure,” Maite says. She also received multiple job offers on the spot at WESTEC, and took a position with Northrop Grum- man, where she worked as a manufacturing technol- ogy engineer. Later, she worked as a lean manufac- turing leader for Zodiac Aerospace. In her role, Maite developed many training programs and deployed them at various Zodiac sites. She taught all levels, from ex- ecutives to shop floor employees, and coached them through problem-solving projects and Kaizen events. “I loved my job,” she says.


*Nominees were required to be 30 years of age or younger by March 2, 2015, the deadline for nomination. 82 AdvancedManufacturing.org | July 2015


“The smell of machines—coolant and cut metal—is familiar and almost comforting to me.”


Maite took a break from working full-time when her first child was born. Currently, she is the Chair of SME Senior Chapter 39 in Seattle, WA. As Chair, Maite oversees all chapter events and personally organizes most of them. Some of the events she’s had a hand in include factory tours to companies like Boeing and Precor, networking and social events, technical presentations, award ceremonies, student engagement and mentoring activities, engineering and career fairs, scholarship awards, certification re- view courses and collabora- tions with other professional societies. “The prospect of being able to improve the chap-


ter's communication and management with the goal of making a large and positive impact on the current and future manufacturing community in the area inspired me to take on the role as Chair,” she says. Part of her role is to change people’s perceptions of manufacturing.


“People usually think it's a dirty business, or that I work on machines. Specifically with lean manufactur- ing, the number one misconception is that the goal of lean or implementing lean is to eliminate jobs or ship them overseas, which is incorrect,” she says. Maite is married to an aerospace engineer, with whom she has two young children. When her children get a little older, her plan is to return to manufacturing full-time.


“As the children mature and Maite gets back into the manufacturing industry, which I know she will, she will be, as this program recognizes, ‘the future of manufacturing,’” Ed says.


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