NIMBLY Traveler: Milwaukie
NIMBLY: Not In My BackYard
I work for a company that develops software and specialized PLCs for continuous emissions monitoring systems (CEMS) for environmental compliance reporting. The easiest way to explain my job is to say I’m a control systems engineer with regulatory experience. I have a lot of knowledge of air quality regulations and will probably be branching into water the next couple of years.
One of the more entertaining parts of my job is that I am required to be onsite for things like power plant startups, equipment change-outs, and other general maintenance. I travel all over the continental US (normally to the middle of no where) and see places that not many others travel.
I’m going to do small updates about where I am and what I’m doing without going into too much detail. I will not include pictures inside any of the facilities that I visit, so please don’t ask.
MillerCoors Brewing Company
I said I normally travel to the middle of nowhere – my first trip seems much more spectacular than it should. This trip is to the MillerCoors Brewery in Milwaukee, WI. I am staying in a historic hotel right next to Marquette University and I will probably talk all day tomorrow about the hotel.
Today was just a neat day.
I got onsite at eight central and met my contact. I worked until noon and let me tell you, the inside of that building is a maze. Even being shadowed by an employee, I felt like I could take a wrong turn and end up in a vat of citric acid. It was all old, beautiful buildings, one on top of each other so that the most production could be put into each square foot.
Lunch was at the Harley Davidson Museum.
After lunch I somehow ended up at a car crash test facility. Please don’t ask me how that happened, I was offered the ability to go, I went. The test they were setting up for was a head on collision with a pole. I did not get to see the actual crash, but I was privy to the results of previous crashes.
Back to the facility where I did more work and then was taken on the “hardhat” tour.
Today I got to see beer being brewed, kegs being cleaned and filled, MGD and Miller Light being bottled and THE BEAST being canned.
This was one of my more interesting trips
Tomorrow I head back to Knoxville, spending most the day flying. I’ll probably spend that time working up the post for tomorrow about my hotel, which is a really interesting place and deserves a post of it’s own.
Tags: brewery, wisconsin, work
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