Our first Volunteer in the spotlight is Jess Wright, a Principal Estimator from an Oil & Gas Consultancy. The best thing about Jess’s job as an Engineer is the variety, every day is different. She started out as a process engineer designing equipment and works out the cost of oil and gas installations throughout the world! Jess is expected to be imaginative and accurate!
At school Jess was good at maths and realised she was very logical in how she worked and thought. Engineering as a career seemed to be a good fit and she managed to get work experience which helped her to decide which branch of engineering to follow. A WISE (Women in Science & Engineering) course helped her overcome her schools’ view that “girls don’t do Engineering”! Jess is passionate about making engineering a real subject available to all.
Jess focuses her attention on Primary days for SATRO. She has made lighthouses, broken circuit boards, shot lemonade bottles over zillions of fences and answered lots of questions. As Jess says “There can’t be many mums of two boys that can weld, have been upside down in a helicopter simulator and talk about the construction issues in permafrost Siberia”.
For Jess the best bit about working with SATRO is being a role model. If I leave my SATRO day having encouraged just one person to give Science another thought – then I’m happy”.
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