Originally from Mexico, Demetrio Guevara came to Minnesota with his wife to live in her home state.
“The winters are terrible,” he laughs.
Despite the cold, he’s been with his employer, Modern Manufacturing & Engineering (MME), for over three decades now. In his current role as Shop Supervisor, he enjoys that he gets to do a lot of problem solving and troubleshooting.
“I'm the kind of person who will find the solution for any problem, because most problems have a solution,” Guevara said. “I like helping people. I like improving programs and making them more efficient.”
One thing Guevara appreciates about his work at MME is the opportunities it provides not only for those from all different cultural backgrounds, but for the next generation of manufacturers, too.
“We’re very involved in the community, at things like job fairs and schools, trying to get the younger generation more interested in manufacturing,” Guevara said. “All it takes is planting one seed, and even if they don’t go into manufacturing, they might tell a friend about it.”
Through his own experiences meeting future manufacturers at various events with MME, Guevara has deepened his own passion for sharing the reality of the industry with students who might have written it off as a career before truly understanding the opportunities it could give them.
“Many kids think that a machine shop is this kind of dark, dirty place, and it’s nothing like that,” Guevara said. “In our workplace, and many like it, they’re high-tech, state-of-the-art machine shops.”