A passion for all things automotive and a dream to work as a car designer led Aaron Mormile to Mac Engineering.
He spent his student years immersed in the Baja and Formula SAE teams, and eventually landed a 16-month internship as a design engineer with an off-road vehicle manufacturer.
But when that experience showed the 2013 mechanical engineering and management grad that he wanted a career with more variety, he turned to the consulting industry.
“I realized that although mechanical design engineering was a great creative outlet for me, I needed something more to drive the passion in my career,” he says.
“I love the thrill of being thrown into a new situation and needing to adapt to my expertise to a new industry, process or machine. That sink-or-swim feeling can be stressful but makes the work so much more rewarding.”
After eight years with the industrial engineering and operations consulting firm Isaac Operations, Mormile is now director of project operations.
It’s a role that sees him develop and manage the processes, tools and techniques that consulting teams use to deliver projects for clients in industries ranging from automotive to marine construction, from food and beverage manufacturing to healthcare.
Ironically, consulting work also gave him the chance to work on a manufacturing process improvement project for the supercar maker McLaren in the United Kingdom – “my automotive dream come true to be working in a supercar factory,” Mormile says.
A recent highlight was leading a pro-bono process improvement project for a not-for-profit organization supplying groceries to food-insecure families across the Greater Toronto Area.
“We applied an industrial engineering approach to transform their manual box packing operation to a production line process, increasing productivity by 50 percent and allowing them to serve more people in need within their limited budget,” Mormile says.
He urges students to recognize the importance of working as part of a team.
“Success comes from achieving the objective, not from being the one with the right answer,” he says. “Park your ego, ask questions and learn from the experience of others.
“Your ability to build trusting and social relationships with whoever you work with will take your further, faster, than technical ability alone.”
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