The On The Job Series on the Alley On The Run Show is brought to you by Tracksmith.

Go to Tracksmith.com and use code On The Job to get free shipping,

plus 5% of your order will be donated to the Bravely Gabe Foundation.

Welcome to The Alley On The Run Show. I'm your host Alley Feller and this is the On The Job

Series where we hear from women who have cool, unique, interesting careers. And of course,

these women are all runners, so in addition to hearing about what they do all day,

we find out how running fits in too. And this season,

Falloo Buy. This is the seventh and final episode in season 5 of The On The Job Series. Wow.

Over the past seven weeks, we've heard from a casting director, a morning news anchor,

a professional ballet dancer, a commercial truck driver, a symphony orchestra conductor,

and a jewelry designer. And today, we're closing things out with a soup engineer.

Did you know that was a thing? Soup engineer? Because I didn't until I got the most delightful

email from Jill Cardamone. Jill is a senior process engineer for the Campbell Soup Company,

where she's part of the Supermbrough team in research and development. She's worked there for

five years and in that time, Jill has had her hand in every division of the company,

including meals and sauce, and beverage and baby. As a process engineer, which, yay, women in STEM,

Jill is the middle person that takes what a food scientist creates in the kitchen and translates

it to a massive scale. Jill gives the best example of this in our conversation using my personal

favorite superhero muffins to explain. So basically, Jill figures out what it takes to go from

making, say, a dozen muffins to making 12,000 muffins a day, only soup and not muffins. You'll see,

she explains. Jill has dealt with super virgincies, food supply shortages, clogged equipment during

the testing process, microwave tests to see what happens to different kinds of soup when they're

...