

Food & Cryo Devlopment engineer at Air Products
Follow your strengths. I like dealing with attention to detail and enjoy following engineering guidelines and safety standards.
About Karen...
Who am I?
"The quality controller personality type is 100% me. I have to be proactive in my role.I ensure that the engineering technical solutions installed are safe. I like to challenge the way things have always been done to continuously improve work processes.I am good with detailed design. I am trustworthy, far too honest and ethical."
What do I do?
"No one day is every the same. I visit many different customer sites in UK to carry out process and safety audits. I enjoy engaging with many different people with different disciplines and backgrounds. My work supports the commercial team to enable the sale of liquid nitrogen in new applications with enabling equipment."
How did I get here?
"I decided to join the commercial technology group supporting food and cryogenic customers which has given me the opportunity to work closely with customers at their manufacturing sites. I use my experience and training skills to ensure that our customers understand the dangers of asphyxiant cryogenic gases whilst operating efficiently."
The life I live
"When I have time,I enjoy visiting open gardens and looking at how I can use the ideas in my back garden. Alternatively, I am with my teenagers and their horses, taking them to horse competitions. I like reading fiction books, typically supernatural genre."
My typical day
"There are various stages within my work, starting with responding to initial prospect technical queries and also following the initial prospect to a full engineering technical design, to support the project engineer with costings.Finally supporting the commercial team with technical offerings to secure new business. Once new business is awarded, I complete commissioning of the technical installation whilst supporting customers with operator and safety training."
My qualifications
"A-Level Physics, A-Level Chemistry, A-Level Mathematics. M-Eng Chemical engineering with Biotechnology at U.M.I.S.T. Summer student at Air Products. Graduate engineering programme at Air Products. Process engineering design roles and Process control engineering."