Noel Bonilla | Age: 46 | Company: Mearthane Products Corp. | Job title: Assistant supervisor | Education: Reached junior year in high school | Salary: $33,000-$38,000
Noel Bonilla is an assistant supervisor in the compound department at Mearthane Products Corp., a manufacturer of industrial and consumer products that use polyurethane. His path there was not a straight one.
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He left school in the junior year of high school in the Dominican Republic and joined the army. After leaving the military he worked in a manufacturing plant. He arrived in the United States a little more than a decade ago when his American-citizen wife said the U.S. was going to be home.
After working briefly for a company that made lenses for eyeglasses, he found his way to Mearthane. His experience in the Dominican Republic, which involved using polypropylene fibers for textile production, gave him some understanding of working with the materials, but he says his supervisor was “very patient” as he made the transition to polyurethane.
“Molding polyurethane is science and art,” said MPC Director of Marketing Alejandro Martinez. “You must be able to identify problems quickly,” he added, or else the job will be ruined.
Ask Noel Bonilla what is most fun about working at MPC and he says, “Everything!”
It is the personal connections that mean the most to Bonilla. He enjoys paying back his own experience by training new employees as a supervisor, and looks forward to continuing to learn and grow at MPC.
Bonilla has participated in two training sessions involving the chemistry of the materials the company uses as well as taken English-language classes arranged by Dorcas International Institute of Rhode Island at MPC.
Mark S. Murphy is the editor of PBN.
