For the past 20 years, Nuno Santos has been working in MCG Automotive production units and is one of the process/product engineers specializing in welding at MCG.
Optimistic about MCG’s future, Nuno Santos shares his daily routine at the company and emphasizes the importance of training and the ability to deal with technology in his work.
Learning to evolve
Nuno Santos is one of the MCG Automotive employees who completed the post-graduation for International Welding Engineers (IWE).
“At the time, the company needed to certify the railway section, and this opportunity arose. Either someone with these skills was found through internal recruitment or external recruitment was necessary. I accepted the challenge and did this training, a post-graduation in welding engineering”.
Accepting new challenges
“The post-graduation in welding engineering was one of my biggest challenges at MCG. It was quite an effort and quite difficult to do. But nothing is done without work,” explains Nuno.
“As I am responsible for production process control, along with my colleagues, the whole team, keeping the piece with the quality levels that the customer demands, which are quite high, and the piece is very complex, it ends up being a very motivating and challenging job”.
The impact of technology
Regarding the importance of welding engineering, Nuno Santos recalls that this brings “value-added products, which have greatly leveraged the company in recent years”.
“At the time, we were trying to secure a welding-related business, that is, a welded product, and the fact that I was attending the training, and we already had someone else here with that level of training, ended up giving some confidence to the customer. I think this had a significant impact on winning the business”.
“This automotive sector, which is very demanding, requires us to always be at the forefront, that is, to have cutting-edge technology and processes as automated as possible. To not be dependent on labor, which is often scarce. And that requires us to be learning every day, studying technology, learning, and dealing with it to get the best benefit and profitability from the production line. And to have a quality product in the end, something that is demanded by the customer and what we want to do”.
Improving what we do
“For me, who likes assemblies and more difficult things, I enjoy projects that have several pieces, forming a final assembly, and that bring complexity and challenges,” he says. “What ends up being difficult to do is what I like the most”.
Nuno considers himself someone who likes to do things well. “As I’m a perfectionist, I like to do things as they should be done, and the parts we make here have some analogy with the type of DIY that I do in my spare time. So I bring a bit of that to my daily work. Not always at first, but I like to do things well”.
Preparing for the future
Regarding what the future of the company might be: “MCG can only have a bright future because of the history we have. We have been through many crises and managed to overcome them, and our CEO is always looking to buy cutting-edge technology. We end up following the evolution of the markets we work in, and that gives us confidence, and we can only be optimistic about our future”.
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