2012 Leader Under 40: Kim Kallstrom, 35
Coordinator II/Program Administrator, The Reliability and Maintainability Center at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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Kim Kallstrom, 35
Coordinator II/Program Administrator, The Reliability and Maintainability Center at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Years at The Reliability and Maintainability Center: 7
Education: BA Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Boston University; MS Administration—Logistics Management, Georgia College and State University
Kim’s contributions
“Kim is the program administrator for the Reliability and Maintainability Center (RMC), an industry-supported center within UT’s College of Engineering,” said Klaus Blache, center director at the RMC. “She has been associated with the RMC for several years in various roles, such as reliability and maintainability (R+M) internship coordinator and chairman for the annual conference. Kim’s experience with real-world maintenance situations as a former lean consultant and aircraft maintenance officer (USAF) makes her a perfect fit for the RMC. With an ongoing combination of training, placing students in R+M internships, research projects, benchmarking studies, and conferences/member meetings, it is critical to have the right person managing day-to-day activities.”
Why a career in manufacturing?
“My career allows me to impact manufacturing daily. By matching interns with our member companies, I am securing the future of manufacturing by ensuring that the incoming workforce has the skills needed to hit the ground running. Through RMC training, I get to help keep the existing manufacturing workforce current. As the Maintenance and Reliability Conference (MARCON) coordinator, I get to bring together reliability and maintenance professionals in manufacturing and other disciplines to benchmark one another and share lessons learned and new technology. World-class companies need world-class R+M, and I get to help companies achieve that success.”
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2012 Salary Survey
In a year when manufacturing continued to lead the economic rebound, it makes sense that plant manager bonuses rebounded. Plant Engineering’s annual Salary Survey shows both wages and bonuses rose in 2012 after a retreat the year before.
Average salary across all job titles for plant floor management rose 3.5% to $95,446, and bonus compensation jumped to $15,162, a 4.2% increase from the 2010 level and double the 2011 total, which showed a sharp drop in bonus.