Véronique has worked at Canadair for five years - she came for a work-study term, and stayed on. She works for the procedures department, the link between engineering and production. She receives drawings from the engineers, reads the plans, breaks them down into assembly sequences, and passes along the information the production team needs to do the job.

"It's something like the assembly instructions you get when you buy furniture from IKEA," she explains. "When we're planning a new model of aircraft, for example, I prepare the assembly manuals and order the tools we'll need. Then, in the production phase, I do the follow-up with the team working on that phase to make sure all the sequences for assembly and tooling are followed."

Véronique has worked primarily on two of Canadair's latest models: the Global Express corporate jet, and the CRJ-700 regional transport plane. She was in charge of flight control assembly for both - "all the machinery that makes the plane pitch from high in the sky, move left and right, and wheel around. When a new project is getting off the ground, there are all sorts of challenges and responsibilities. New teams are formed, and there's a lot of action in the air."