Manufacturing

Lori Dever, Workforce Development Manager

Contract Manufacturer located in Erie, Pennsylvania. We offer a wide range of contract manufacturing services including machining, fabrication, assembly, testing and finishing. Our products can be found all around the world in a host of industries.

Nate Elder, HR Generalist - Franklin Bronze

I am the HR Generalist atFranklin Bronze Precision Components. We manufacture investment castings for glass container, steel, pumps & valves, food & beverage, drilling & mining, oil & gas, marine, and many other industrial sectors. We provide high-quality, consistent products supported by our technical expertise, in-house tooling & machining, and automated processing

Jocelyn Stahl Senior Director, Manufacturing Alliances - The Hershey Company

The Hershey Company is the largest manufacturer of chocolate in the USA. I have worked for Hershey for 13 years and had held multiple assignments in Supply Chain and Procurement.

Carly Cox, Category Manager - Operating Services - U.S. Steel

U. S. Steel is a steel producer with major production operations in the United States and Slovakia. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, we manufacture a wide range of value-added steel sheet and tubular products for the automotive, appliance, container, industrial machinery, construction and oil and gas industries. We were founded in 1901 and are a company of firsts: first to reach a $1B valuation, first to establish a code of conduct, and coined the phrase "Safety First", among others.

I am a Category Manager responsible for the sourcing strategies of certain services at our Pittsburgh-area facilities. These services range from trucking within the plants to recycling various waste streams from our processes. I have been with the company since 2017 and was previously responsible for engineered products that we purchase to line any molten-metal containing or heat-exposed equipment.

Nick Andes, Reliability Specialist for the United States Steel Corporation at the Clairton Plant - Mon Valley Works

I studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh (BS’08 and MS’12). I received my Professional Engineer Licensure from the State of Pennsylvania in 2017. My background is in manufacturing, fabrication, maintenance, and design of thermal and fluid systems related to the metals industry and power production. U. S. Steel is the second largest domestic producer of steel in the United States and employees over 25,000 people. The modern steel industry was born in Pittsburgh, or more specifically the Monongahela River Valley over 140 years ago. In the late 19^th Century and early 20^th Century, this region was “the workshop to the World” or the Silicon Valley of its time.