All tagged welding
Déborah is tended to like a top athlete by her employer, Naval Group. Why? Because she's a gold medalist. She didn’t win her medal at the Beijing Winter Olympics earlier this month but rather after three days of competition at WorldskillsFrance in the "welding" category in early January. However, just like the winter sports athletes, she’ll also go to China to compete in the Worldskills international finals in Shanghai from 12-17 October 2022…
Nathalie is an engineer, a welding expert at Nexter Systems, the French state-owned manufacturer of armoured vehicles and the iconic Leclerc tank, where she is responsible for the mechanically welded structures skills centre. “I find it gratifying that our work is to protect the military. It’s our primary goal,” she says during our video conversation…
Hélène was planning to be a nurse. Instead she’s a welder at Naval Group, working on the components for the nuclear boilers of submarines. Two worlds that, on the surface, have very little in common! Except that in both cases you have to be a perfectionist and have a sense of thoroughness and a job well done because people's lives depend on you. How did she come to do this difficult job, practised by very few women, but which she finds thoroughly satisfying…
