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You can’t shirk it, but I can’t disguise the fact that it’s not
something that I ever enjoy doing.
4. In my job you could be working all hours of the day or night.
If a system is needed urgently, there is no question of
knocking off at the usual time. You can find yourself working
through the night.
5. At present we’re busy getting sample pumps ready for a
customer so that we can do some endurance tests to see
whether they’re capable of doing what the customer expects of
them. From the test I do, I have to assess whether or not the
pumps can go to the customer.
6. Basically, we look after the production of parts. We do the
planning for every new component; how they’re going to be
manufactured—what methods and what machines are going to
be used to make them.
We’re also responsible for specifying new equipment and new
machines – gauges, tooling, modifications to tooling and
gauges, and we generally look after production. We have to
make sure everything runs smoothly. There is – there has to be
– a good liaison between a foreman and ourselves so that if he
has a problem of some kind, he knows where he can come to
get it salved. And when he does come hopefully we can
usually sort it out for him.

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