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2020 Outstanding IE Alumna - Jessica Lagerhausen

Posted February 19, 2020

Jessica Lagerhausen (BS IE ’13), recipient of 2019 IE Outstanding Alumni Award shared her career path with audience, which encompasses most of significant industrial engineering skills/fields during 2020 IE Career Planning Session on February 18, 2020. Jess’ presentation inspired audience with her passion in quality control, lean production and operations management. IE students, faculty and IPAC members were impressed by success in her career endeavor. Here is her biography:

As a recipient of SIUE Meridian Scholarship, Jessica attend SIUE IE program from 2009 to 2013. During her time at SIUE, Jessica interned with Monsanto and the Air Force.  While at school, won the Outstanding Industrial Engineering Junior award, represented SIUE as the Student Laureate of the Lincoln Academy of Illinois in 2012, and founded the SIUE probationary chapter of Engineering Honors Society Tau Beta Pi (formerly Epsilon). After graduation, Jessica entered Eaton Corporation's Operations Engineering leadership development program that allowed her the opportunity to rotate through three operations leadership roles in three years (quality engineer, lean coordinator and front line leader).  From there, started as a Sr. Quality Engineer / Supervisor. After Eaton, she joined Nestle Purina Petcare in January 2017 in St. Louis, MO as a Continuous Improvement Leader participating in projects all over the US resulting in millions of dollars of incremental cost savings and improvements. From there, she moved to the Atlanta, GA factory as the Manufacturing Excellence Manager and after 14 months promoted to be the factory's Production Manager in charge of all operations, 115+ hourly and 10 salaried individuals. Currently, she is working toward MBA at Indiana University with a focus in Operations Strategy & Business Analytics. Outside of work, she has supported SIUE's Meridian Scholarship interview day (including visiting the Engineering building & providing prospective students stories/guidance), mentor Industrial Engineering female students upon request. Also, she has helped IE students’ career search.

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