When I interviewed for my job here, I was asked why BMW should hire me. My answer was I enjoy learning and I adapt to change quickly. You need to have a willingness to learn new things and the ability to adapt to change if you want to be successful in this environment.

To stay competitive and be profitable, BMW has to change continuously, and things have changed tremendously since I started work here in 1995. The company needs people who are flexible and can live with all this change. I actually like change, if it’s for the better. Concerning math and communication skills, I use mainly algebra and occasionally some trigonometry. I have to read a lot of technical manuals and documentation and write various reports and emails. I also have to communicate by radio all the time. So math, technical reading and writing, speaking, and even a foreign language would benefit anybody in this field. Sometimes we have technical documents that are written in German, and I am in contact with many people from Germany who install our equipment. They speak a little English, but mainly German, so technical German would greatly benefit me here at BMW.