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Shane Hendershot took know-how from Bedford County Technical Center to move into manufacturing at BC Stone — a rewarding career that advanced with roles in fabrication, installation, and management. And he gets to do it all in a place that he says has “great small-town life, four seasons and beautiful mountains.”
I graduated from Everett High School and was in the auto/diesel program at Bedford County Technical Center. After graduation, I briefly worked at another company before starting at BC Stone. When I came here, I learned about the stone industry with on-the-job training.
My first job at the company was making steel slab carts that one of the owners patented. After that, I moved into the fabrication shop (at this time most everything was done by hand). We were a small shop at that time, and we would go out to the job site to template and install the countertops. Today, I am a senior project manager and office manager at BC Stone. The company has grown in the years since I’ve been here: now we have dedicated templaters, fabricators, installers, a CAD department, and machine operators. We have robots that use a saw and waterjet for cutting and c-n-c edging machines.
It is always rewarding to see a kitchen countertop, vanity countertop, or fireplace finished from the slab of material received. There is a lot of teamwork that goes into the process. Problem-solving and improving efficiency as tools and technology advance are also rewarding aspects of manufacturing.
Living and working in Bedford County is great! We have small-town life and it takes two hours or less to get to bigger cities. I love the mountains. It’s nice to have four seasons of weather and we have limited natural disasters.
Manufacturing can be very rewarding. It brings a sense of accomplishment, and it utilizes skills from marketing and designing, hand skills, machine operation, to problem-solving. It takes a team of hardworking, skilled employees to turn a raw material into a valuable finished product. Manufacturing involves many areas of skilled labor and allows opportunities for advancement.
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