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26-03-2025
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GMFS EaglePitcher Remarkable Women!
This is our last Remarkable Women segments for the year, so meet Heather Mauk who works at EaglePicher Technologies as a Sr. Quality Engineer! She has been working there for 28 years and loves it! She is really excited that more women have starting working on bigger projects and receiving higher roles in the company. She was going to school for something completely different and got do an internship at EaglePicher, and has worked her way up from there. She is part of a team that makes batteries for companies that need them produced. She makes sure everything works correctly and if there is any issues she is able to address them before the end mission. She is helping work on the Orion Spacecraft for the Artemis ll Mission! There is a lot of care that has to be taken for the safety for the astronauts! Heather is so excited for this mission and to see it go smoothly and be accomplished. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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25-03-2025
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Remarkable Women: EaglePicher engineer plays key role in Artemis missions
JOPLIN, Mo. — Our final remarkable woman we're highlighting from EaglePicher Technologies has had a career with the company that spans nearly 30 years. The latest mission she's working on is a big one. 'When I first started, I would be the only woman in a conference room full of men,' said Heather Mauk, EaglePicher Sr. Quality Engineer. Remarkable Women These days, EaglePicher senior quality engineer Heather Mauk notes just how many women are working on some really serious stuff. 'It's really great to see the progression of the additional women, in all aspects. You know, everyone from the operations group all the way up to senior management,' said Mauk. How Heather Dodson trains EaglePicher employees for success Heather's 28-year career with the company has simple beginnings. 'I was taking classes at Missouri Southern and was specializing in business with French as my subspecialty. And I got an internship with EaglePicher as an international contracts. We had contracts with a French company at the time,' said Mauk. EaglePicher secures $20 million Air Force contract for missile batteries She then worked in the quality department… as quality specialist before working her way up to quality engineer. 'My day-to-day job is essentially looking at what the customer has supplied to us as requirements for a battery that they need produced,' said Mauk. She's part of a team that ensures all of those requirements are included during the build process of the battery. 'It's a matter of doing inspections, of doing reviews of contracts of specifications and statement of work that come in from the customer,' said Mauk. All that to say, she's a really big deal. 'We joke that dull and boring is good,' said Mauk. Another part of her role is helping make sure that each individual component that goes into each battery is traceable. 'In case there is ever something that a manufacturer contacts us and says, 'This has a problem in functioning.' We're able to trace it back to the exact battery and address whether it's going to be a risk to the end mission,' said Mauk. Because, again, it's some really serious stuff. 'There is no going back and correcting a problem after it has launched. You have to do it right the first time,' said Mauk. Lately, she's been working on batteries for the Orion spacecraft for the Artemis II mission, which is expected to let astronauts circumnavigate the moon, slated for April of next year. 'A man-rated flight, so there is a lot of care that has to be taken to ensure that the lives of astronauts are safe,' said Mauk. Then, in mid-2027, the 4-person crew of Artemis III will land on the moon, a contract EaglePicher is also already tasked with. 'The batteries are important for the safety of the astronauts during the mission. There are features incorporated in case they need to abort the launch that will require the battery to function because the astronauts could be knocked out due to the G-force,' said Mauk. What does she think that day's going to feel like? 'A whole lot of relief. // But there will definitely be joy, and enthusiasm for seeing it finally go,' said Mauk. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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18-03-2025
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EaglePicher secures $20 million Air Force contract for missile batteries
JOPLIN, Mo. — It is another multi-year, multi-million dollar contract for EaglePicher Technologies in Joplin. Close to a 20-million dollar contract from the United States Air Force to produce guidance systems batteries for ballistic missiles. Specifically, Minuteman-3 intercontinental ballistic missiles, which is part of a fleet critical to America's defense strategy, and has been since 1970. The silver-zinc batteries will be produced solely in Joplin for the next 5 years. EaglePicher batteries back home after spaceflight 'So it – and it is an older design, which makes it very, very, very, very unique. And that's why there is limited people that can do this. EaglePicher is one of only two in the entire country that can build this type of battery, and so we are in a unique position. There's a lot of engineering that's gone in this system. We're only delivering roughly a hundred, 120 batteries in the end, but there's a lot of engineering behind that to get that to that point, because this battery hasn't been made in over 20 years,' said Camie Platner, EPT defense & space systems program mgr. Of course, the company's role in this kind of work is nothing new. It has a long history of supplying specialized power solutions for military and aerospace applications. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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18-03-2025
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How Heather Dodson trains EaglePicher employees for success
JOPLIN, Mo. — We continue our look at the remarkable women of the Four States. 'I enjoy, like seeing people learn – how they develop in their job. When you see someone finally get it, you get a great feeling as a teacher,' said Heather Dodson, EaglePicher training & dev. mgr. Heather Dodson is in charge of training for EaglePicher. That is not a small job. 'Multiple locations. So have a couple on the east coast, and then several here in the Midwest, and we have over 700 employees,' said Dodson. It all starts on day one, when a new employee is hired. 'When they first start, we'll take care of orientation. Everyone has to go through the orientation. So, as they develop in their job and their managers are going to work with them and train them that, but I have to make sure that they have all the tools that they need,' said Dodson. Since there are a wide range of jobs at EaglePicher, there's a long list of training that needs to be done. Remarkable Women 'Sometimes there's customers will require specific types of training, and how often those are done. Then some of our employees have to do specific special processes. And so those require a certified instructor to teach those,' said Dodson. Some days it's all about training and testing – but others can take Heather to the assembly process itself. 'Sometimes, you know, I'm out on the floor and looking at product and helping an operator. And then other times I'm sitting behind a computer for days on end making a training,' said Dodson. For Heather, being in charge of it all is still something she loves to do. 'Every time I get one of those trainings complete, that's a really good day. Or when we see, you know, a Mars rover land on Mars safely, and we're getting data back. I mean, that's all of that. It started with the people here and the training that they received,' said Dodson. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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11-03-2025
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Remarkable Women: Brandi Bewley
Sometimes, it's not about how you got there, but the path it took to get there. And for our next Remarkable Woman, her role at EaglePicher Technologies came about through personal perseverance and resiliency. 'My background's a little different. I actually have an English degree.' So just how did Brandi Bewley go from an English major to working contracts for explosive and pyrotechnic devices for EaglePicher's Energetics Division? 'About five years ago, I changed industries. I got into defense aerospace. And I really love it. It's a great industry to be in.' Her role involves the very beginning steps when a request for pricing or a quote comes in. 'We gather all the information, go over quality clauses, requirements from the customer.' She is one of the first set of eyes for any new incoming contracts, which is crucial when you're dealing with things that could literally blow up. 'If we mess up, somebody could die. So, it's important to be right, you know, from start to finish. And I like that I'm at the start.' She's part of a team that makes sure the contract is thoroughly reviewed to get it right each and every time. 'Let's say there's a missed quality clause that involved inspection or testing. We could get them making a thousand units of something and then find out that we didn't follow a procedure that needed to be done in the middle. You know, a quality check or test. And then, you could lose hundreds of thousands of dollars in one day.' And while more women are joining her industry, she admits there's still a male majority. But Brandi is hoping to inspire the next generation of female workers—three in particular. 'I have three daughters, and I've told them their whole life, you do what you want. Do something that makes you feel good. This is a job I feel good about, and it makes me feel good and proud of myself. And I want them to feel the same way. I want all women to feel the same way.' Not bad for an English major who carved her own path. 'As women, we can bounce back from anything. I have had a lot of ups and downs—in my career, my personal life, as a single parent to three daughters. I am successful, proud of myself, my daughters see that, and they know how to have pride in themselves too. It's not always easy, and I think that's a big thing that makes women remarkable—our ability to bounce back.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
