Gone are the conventional days when you had to choose one career path and stick to it forever. When you have skills and ambition, making a career change can be a great decision at any point in life. Once a plastics engineer, Russell Becker now happily works as a Structures Technician at the MHIRJ service center in Bridgeport, West Virginia.

After eight years and counting with MHIRJ, Shannon Kniceley, Quality Control Inspector, knows that teamwork makes for the best work. While the camaraderie and support of her fellow inspectors helps everyone take their work to the next level, what she’d really love is for more women to take the leap into a career in aviation.
 

As an Operations Supervisor at the MHIRJ service center in Bridgeport, West Virginia, Christopher Lawrence’s workdays are spent ensuring the quality of his team’s work and the safety of the aircraft they’re working on. But on his off days, he’s all about living his best life with his family and friends in the place he calls home.

Today we’re celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science by sharing the story of our very own Nathalie Chabot, Supervisor of In-Service Engineering at MHIRJ. As someone who has always been fascinated by the wonders of science and technology, Nathalie’s career in the aviation industry was inspired by her deep curiosity about aerodynamics and how an aircraft is able to defy gravity and take flight.