Q&A: Sandie Jones, Service Engineer, ABB
ABB engineer Sandie Jones looks back at her long and varied career in the engineering sector, which kicked off the day after she left school.
Q: What attracted you into the field of measurement technology?
At school I excelled in mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology, but for women leaving school in the 1970s this was still no guarantee of a job in STEM, even with my qualifications. However, if anything, this just made me more determined to succeed. The day after I left school my father took me to a local factory with the intention of getting me a job. This local factory happened to be the General Electric Company, and I secured my first job as a Calibration Technician, which involved setting up pre-amplifiers for radio and stereo systems. I suppose you could say that that’s when I first caught the bug.
After a brief stint in the Army, I then came across Kent Instrumentation, which would later become part of ABB. After two years of working on the instrument assembly line, I then applied for another role, once again as a Calibration Technician, before progressing to the test department.
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