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wens said that they are often bidding
against three to four other companies on
projects, often outside of the Spokane area.
He said like most companies they compete
on price, on-time delivery, and quality.
The staff of 40 in Spokane is used to con-
tract manufacturing, and many of the skilled
manufacturing employees have been at
that location most of their careers, through
different employers.
Sarah Schnore, a machinist with Highwood
Global, has been there for 23 years. She said
that she loves what she does and finds the
job “challenging,” but said she is always
learning. She said the main skills needed in
her job are, “Patience, reading and measur-
ing, and learning the machines.” She said
that the job is non-traditional for women,
but she wouldn’t do anything else.
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Chuck Zigmund, project manager, jokingly said that he handles “cradle to
grave project management,” and has been there the longest. He was at the
plant during the Z Nation filming and had quite an experience watching the
actors perform.
He noted that one of the more interesting days during the Z Nation filming,
was when the main characters were battling the zombies. “They were using
slingshots to fire on the zombies. They had a front-end loader and cars with
explosives.” He brought his daughter over to watch the filming that day and
said that the actors worked very hard and spent hours on one scene.
Zigmund said, “Over the life of the property a lot of interest-
ing things have happened here. So many people drive by this
every day and have no idea what goes on here because it does
look abandoned. But the technology and things being built
behind the scenes are interesting. From the front it looks
like the apocalypse — but the inside works are high-tech.”
Zigmund added that each project manager has from
six-to-30 projects at a time, some lasting just a week all
the way to six months. They have four full-time project
managers at the facility.