AESSEAL appoints Carolyn Griffiths, to its board as a Non-Executive Director.

AESSEAL®, the Rotherham-based global mechanical seal manufacturer, has announced the appointment of former Institution of Mechanical Engineers President (IMechE), Carolyn Griffiths, to its board as a Non-Executive Director.

Carolyn, a senior professional from the rail industry, who established and was the first Chief Inspector of the UK’s Rail Accident Investigation Branch, is vocal in her support for change within the engineering profession.

As President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 2017, she used the platform to focus on the need to attract more young people into engineering and, particularly, to make engineering more attractive to women. She is also committed to further developing professional standards in engineering and serves as a Board member for the Engineering Council.

The announcement of Carolyn’s appointment comes as International Women in Engineering Day, on June 23rd, focuses attention on the career opportunities in engineering available to girls and celebrates the outstanding achievements of women engineers throughout the world.

Carolyn says: “I did not join the industry to overtly campaign for women. Instead, my contribution to the gender agenda has been to make sure I succeeded in challenging roles, to leave a positive mark in the hope that my work might make it easier for other female engineers. Several decades later it’s very clear that more needs to be done now to enable and encourage more women to join and to progress in engineering.

“With the current exciting changes in technology there is an ever-increasing opportunity for engineers to improve, in some way, the way in which we live our lives. It is a particularly great time to be an engineer.

“AESSEAL is a really exceptional company for its superb products and services, its investment in people and more generally its promotion of engineering. I am extremely happy to join the Board.”

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