Company's Project Manager Named Face of Manufacturing

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JOHNS CREEK, GA -- Scott Means, project manager with Nordson Corp. in Johns Creek, has been named the Face of Manufacturing for March 2016 by the Georgia Manufacturing Extension Partnership.

The Partnership is a unit of the Enterprise Innovation Institute of Georgia Tech.

Means began his career 32 years ago with Nordson after completing his graduate degree at Georgia Tech. With a degree in electrical engineering, Means was drawn to Nordson because of the size of the company and because of the location.

Means has held many positions within Nordson over the last 32 years, and currently serves the role of product manager.

“Combining my business sense with my technical knowledge into this product management role was a great fit,” he said.

In this new position, Means is a lot closer to the customer than ever before and is responsible for managing one of Nordson’s product lines across the world. Means lights up as he discusses all of the people in different countries he gets to interact with on a daily basis.

“I love to travel and have logged 1.2 million air travel miles," he continued. "Since I’ve been in this new role, I go to Europe and Asia about four times a year, and more if there is a global roll out of a new product.”

The Faces of Manufacturing initiative provides a look into the new wave of manufacturing. A highly technical, highly skilled and extremely rewarding career opportunity, certainly not the manufacturing of the past. With over 10,000 manufacturing companies in Georgia employing more than 365,000 people, manufacturing is a vital piece of the state’s economy.

Founded as a family-owned business in 1954 in Ohio, Nordson Corp. has steadily grown, both through organic expansion and acquisition. Today, the company has operations and support offices in more than 30 countries. Nordson’s Georgia operations began solely in the engineering arena in 1978 and in the mid-80s, the company opened a manufacturing facility in the state.

The company expanded manufacturing operations throughout the next couple of decades, and today they operate two Georgia facilities in Johns Creek and Swainsboro, which include manufacturing, distribution, engineering, sales and marketing operations.

With a long history as a philanthropic company, Nordson commits 5 percent of pretax domestic earnings for charitable purposes. In addition to the The Nordson Corporation Foundation, the company encourages employee involvement through the Time ‘n Talent volunteer program, the Matching Gifts Program that matches employee and retiree donations to nonprofit organizations and schools and the annual United Way Campaign where the company matches donations from employees and retirees.

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Photo: Mayor Mike Bodker and Assistant City Manager Justin Kirouac on Monday were at Nordson's manufacturing plant in Johns Creek today to watch Georgia Manufacturing Extension Partnership at Georgia Tech recognize Scott Means as a Faces of Manufacturing recipient. Credit: city of Johns Creek