MY WORK: QUALITY MANAGER
Epiroc’s greatest asset is our employees. We take pride in offering them an outlet for their creativity in order to provide the best possible value to our customers.
Sanna Persson Sebron Snyder
“You never know what’s around the corner” Maureen Bohac grew up in the mining industry and has had many roles there. As a Quality Manager at Epiroc Drilling Solutions, she faces challenges and constant problem-solving, the very things she loves most about her work.
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rowing up in a family of miners, we moved around quite a lot. My dad worked for a mining contractor specializing in tunneling, and by the time I finished high school I had lived in 18 different states, Canada and Puerto Rico. Fresh out of college, I started out as a manufacturing MAUREEN BOHAC engineer at Atlas Copco for the subJob: Quality Manager, Epiroc assembly area. I then moved to a new USA (based in Garland, Texas) product development team as a manu- Joined the company: 2005 Best part of the job: facturing engineer.
machines and customers. I was able to travel the world, visiting a variety of customer sites and gaining their feedback on our machines, their applications, and the customer’s expectations. Outside work, I have a beautiful family that keeps me very busy, but I also try to focus on who I am – beyond being a wife and mother. I am a history buff, love swimming, love reading and am a self-taught amateur wine sommelier. I am newly into crossfit and it has been a huge learning curve for me, but I love the physical challenges, successes “Working with all the different and even the failures it brings. I enjoy levels, cultures and people in MINING CAN BE very polarizing to peo- my organization. There are so pushing myself, both in my personal ple who don’t know it from within. many personalities, but we are life and at work. While I grew up in a family where min- all in this together” Every single workday is different ing put food on the table, a lot of peofor me. I can have meetings scheduled ple don’t understand all the hard work that goes into it all day and then a major quality issue comes up and – and all the modern day luxuries it produces. I want- I have to let everything else go. It’s exciting and one ed to understand our customers better, and help others of the things I love most about my job – the fact that understand all the possibilities that come from mining. you never know what’s around the corner. It’s constant In that quest, marketing became a natural next step for problem-solving, helping your customers or the peome. I was a product engineer and was then promot- ple around you. Facing new problems can be frustrated to product manager for the large blasthole drills. ing and it’s never simple, but finding solutions is what This is where I truly gained my appreciation for our motivates me to go further.”
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Mining & Construction | No. 02 | 2019