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Almost everyone at a Nucor mill has a story about how the working environment and all-for-one mentality elevated their work life and inspired them to want to move past a job into a career. Despite being on the job less than a year, Mayra Gonzalez, a single mother of two originally from Mexico, has one such story. “I am a coil wrapper and handler; I prep the coils according to their packaging code and ship them out either by rail or truck,” she said. “My advice for others is to never give up. Everything is possible if you set your mind to it. I never really had a role model, so I became one to my daughters.”

Teammate Spotlight

FRENZEL MORALES

PC Tech, Nucor Steel Arkansas

Country of Origin: The Philippines

Age: 27

Tenure with Nucor: 9 months

BLUEPRINT: How did you get interested in your career field?

FRENZEL MORALES: Growing up, I leaned toward technology, and I was a very curious person. Any toy I had, I broke it apart just to see how it functioned and how it worked. I took my first phone apart to see how it worked.

BP: What would surprise people about the level of technology at work in the steel plant?

FM: At Nucor, our biggest thing is safety. Some of the technology we’ve engineered works to take a person out of a dangerous position. Some of what we do is baseline work, but there’s a lot that’s more complicated. Last week I had to work on a computer that had specialty software just for that specific manufacturing area.

BP: Is all your work on PCs or do you work with the manufacturing equipment?

FM: We do a lot of what’s in-between, depending on where the equipment is out at the mill. It could be a computer, it could also be a printer, it could be a label printer that we print out labels to put on finished coils. If any of this equipment isn’t working, we swap it out and change it. And we have to work fast to get back up and running so it doesn’t stop production.

BP: What do you like about working at Nucor?

FM: Where do I start? I have a great team and my team always has my back. We’re working in an environment where there’s a lot of hot metal, and it can be somewhat dangerous. But at the same time, it’s all well thought out.