“Be brave and take the first step!”
Lisa Wazinger, a process engineer at Scheuch, works on innovative processes in environmental technology.
“Be brave and take the first step!”
For International Women's Day 2026, process engineer Lisa Wazinger talks about her path into engineering and why courage is often more important than perfection.
Lisa Wazinger (25) lives in Prambachkirchen and works as a process engineer at Scheuch in Aurolzmünster. There, she focuses on catalytic processes for environmental technology. These are technologies that use special materials to convert harmful exhaust gases into significantly less polluting substances. Her responsibilities range from design calculations and the planning of test facilities to measurement campaigns directly in industrial environments. She analyzes processes and develops technical solutions step by step.
Her path into practical work began in 2023 with an internship in research and development at Scheuch. As part of her master's thesis, she investigated the combustion behavior of different substances and gained her first experience in industry. "During your studies, you learn the theoretical basics, but in practice, you realize how dynamic technical issues actually are," she says. Especially when requirements change rapidly, it is all the more important to pool knowledge and develop solutions together.
Teamwork and Equal Opportunities
"The perfect answer isn't in a textbook. You have to work it out as a team." New insights emerge, requirements change, and solutions rarely arise in isolation. Different disciplines and perspectives provide crucial added value. "Diversity is increasingly recognized as an asset," says Wazinger – also because diverse teams strengthen innovation and decision-making processes. All-male teams are significantly less common today. Furthermore, there are more visible role models as well as organizations and programs that specifically support women in STEM fields (professions and fields of study that deal with mathematics, technology, digital applications, and scientific contexts) and further dismantle existing barriers.
On the topic of equal opportunities, Michaela Endl, Head of Human Resources at the Scheuch Group, expresses a clear stance: "In everyday professional life, it should be about competence, performance, and commitment – not about gender." Accordingly, Scheuch relies on qualified and dedicated individuals and is constantly looking for people who want to contribute their expertise and actively shape the company's further development.
Courage for Technology
What motivates the dedicated engineer Lisa Wazinger is the combination of professional challenge and societal relevance. Environmental technology provides concrete solutions for reducing emissions and optimizing resource efficiency – and working on precisely this every day is both her motivation and her responsibility. Her message to young women is clear: "Be brave. You don't have to know everything at the beginning. What's important is having the courage to start and stick with it."
About Scheuch Group:
60 years of experience
The Scheuch Group is a family-owned business whose goal is to make a positive impact to protecting the earth and local communities with sustainable technologies for air pollution control. For more than half a century, the Upper Austrian company has been working to reduce particulate matter and emissions form the air by means of extraction, dust removal, conveying and flue gas cleaning. These technologies and others also reduce noise and odors that are produced during the manufacturing process. In addition to serving the industrial minerals, energy, metal, wood-based materials, glass and wood industries, the core business also includes service and components. Customers can leverage all or any of the services the company delivers from sales, project management, design, research & development, manufacturing, assembly, commissioning and after-sales service. Today, the Scheuch Group and its more than 1,440 employees and subsidiaries across the globe, is regarded as a leading international environmental technology company.