Why You Want to Work at Dynex/Rivett Inc.
Opportunities to learn new skills and apply them toward your career growth.
A friendly atmosphere amongst your coworkers.
Compensation that is competitive with market rates.
A comprehensive benefits program.
Company cash contributions toward employees' 401(k) plans and HSA accounts.
Job security and career longevity.
Dynex is a successful manufacturer of hydraulic components selling worldwide for over 60 years. We offer a small-company environment that fosters teamwork and innovation. We use advanced manufacturing processes, with the latest and most sophisticated CNC machines, in a clean and well-lit working environment.
Our Pewaukee headquarters is located in Lake Country in Southeastern Wisconsin, which offers a variety of natural, outdoor activities. Nearby is Milwaukee, with diverse cultural attractions, including professional sports, music, and ethnic festivals on the shores of Lake Michigan.
Our people, work environment and location allow us to attract the best people to achieve our success. We welcome you to join us!
Dynex employees, special events, holidays, and more over the years!
DYNEX/RIVETT INC. IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
a. Qualified applicants receive equal consideration based on education, previous employment, experience, capabilities, knowledge, and skills as they relate to the position under consideration.
b. No question is asked for the purpose of excluding any applicant due to race, creed, color, national origin, religion, age, sex, disability, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law.
c. DYNEX/RIVETT INC. REQUIRES ALL APPLICANTS WHO HAVE ACCEPTED AN OFFER OF EMPLOYMENT TO PASS OUR BASIC PHYSICAL EXAM AND DRUG SCREEN TEST PRIOR TO OUR ACCEPTANCE OF YOUR EMPLOYMENT.
Our agreement with all our employees and prospective employees is that Dynex/Rivett Inc. pays for the value that you bring to our organization. The more you increase your value to our company, the more our company will pay you for your value. Likewise, we all also understand that it isn’t Dynex/Rivett Inc. who ultimately pays for everyone who is employed by our company for the value that we all provide, rather it is our satisfied customers who continue to purchase our products. Our goal is to always satisfy all of our customers, and we hope that both you and Dynex/Rivett Inc. provide value to each other in a safe and nurturing environment where you enjoy coming to work for us. Thank you for your interest in securing a position at Dynex/Rivett Inc. We look forward to receiving your online Application Employment Information Form.
Dynex offers competitive pay and excellent benefits, including:
- A comprehensive Medical Plan, including a Health Savings Account with employer contributions.
- 401 (k) Retirement Plan with company matched contributions
- Employer-paid Group Term Life Insurance
- Employer-paid Accidental Death and & Dismemberment
- Employer-paid Short-Term Disability
- Long-Term Disability
- Optional Dental Plan
- Vacations and holidays
- Learning opportunities including Tuition Reimbursement Program
- Join a Diverse Workforce
The success of our company is the direct result of the ambition, talent and experience of our employees. We employ the best people based on their qualifications, abilities and performance.
Dynex is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants receive equal consideration. No question is asked for the purpose of excluding any applicant due to race, creed, color, national origin, religion, age, sex, disability, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Current Open Positions
Corporate Headquarters and Manufacturing Facility
Pewaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
General Application - Click for Details
This application is for the purpose of anyone interested in applying to Dynex if they are uncertain what role is best suited for them or a role with their experience is not listed. Please provide your experience and we will reach out if we can utilize your skills within our company!
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Tool Room / Model Shop Machinist - Click for Details
Type: Full-Time, 1st Shift
Openings: One
Essential Functions:
An individual in this position must be able to successfully perform the essential duties and responsibilities listed below. This list shall not be construed as the only duties that may be assigned for the position.
- Works from digital drawings and sketches.
- Regularly applies shop mathematics and interprets complicated drawings to meet specifications.
- Sets up and operates all model shop/tool room machines, including but not limited to grinders, engine lathes, and manual mills to manufacture components to close tolerances and finish specifications.
- Performs all assigned machine and bench operations to alter and/or repair components or products of fairly complex design.
- Creates or improvises tooling, special holding jigs, and fixtures needed to aid in the manufacture or modification of products.
- Must be familiar with the heat treatment process of steel.
- Reports labor, parts completed, tooling requirements, and machine downtime using ERP software.
Qualifications:
Education
High School Graduate or Equivalent
Experience and/or Training
- 3+ years of experience
- Hurco Vertical Mill experience is a plus, but will train
Licenses/Certificates
NA
Technology/Equipment
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R & D Technician - Click for Details
Type: Full-Time, 1st Shift
Openings: One
Essential Functions:
- Setup and run product testing per engineer requirements.
- Analyze product failure modes and document findings for engineers and customers.
- Maintain lab test equipment by performing calibrations and repairs.
- Perform preventative maintenance on test stand equipment.
- Assemble and disassemble test products for analysis.
- Maintain and order tools and supplies for the lab.
- Perform wear testing using various fluids supplied by customers.
- Maintain a clean, safe work environment in all lab area.
Qualifications:
Education and/or Experience
- Associate degree (or be in a program to obtain an associate degree) in fluid power, mechanical design, or associated field.
- 1-3 years of experience working in a fluid power laboratory is desirable.
- Must have good mechanical skills and be familiar with close tolerance machinery.
Language Skills
- Read, analyze and interpret engineering designs, drawings, test results and studies, and all other related information pertaining to materials, treatments, processing, and manufacturing.
- Respond to inquiries or complaints from customers.
- Write reports and business correspondence.
- Effectively present information to management and customers.
Reasoning Ability
- Define problems, collect and research data, establish facts, use intuition and experience to complement data, and draw valid conclusions.
Physical Demands
- Occasionally required to reach above shoulders, climb, kneel, or crouch.
- Frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and capability to occasionally lift and/or to move up to 25 pounds.
- Using hand tools, the employee must be able to assemble and disassemble test-stand set-ups, products, and their installation and come into close contact with various operating fluids required for the test, function, and performance evaluation of products.
Other Qualifications
- Operate a variety of office equipment such as a personal computer, calculator, telephone, fax machine.
- Operate a variety of shop equipment such as hoists, cranes, lab and production test stand equipment along with associated devices used for monitoring and measuring all size and performance aspects of a product under development, test or production.
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Design Engineer - Click for Details
Type: Full-Time, 1st Shift
Openings: One
Essential Functions:
- Engineer, develop, and prove out product concepts and designs.
- Design and analyze hydraulic circuits and circuit components for customer applications.
- Modify, update, or change existing product and component drawings, test procedures, and assembly instructions.
- Communicate design and development work to other departments via Engineering Change Orders, New Product Releases, Special Project Authorizations, etc.
- Setup and operate product testing in a laboratory environment. Validate results with mathematical analysis.
- Review, recommend, direct, and/or create product designs, modifications, and cost estimates and analyze technology, resource needs, and market demand, to plan and assess the feasibility of products and project scope.
- Coordinate and direct projects, making detailed plans to accomplish goals and directing the integration of technical activities to meet objectives.
- Consult with customers after the sales department has established initial contact, to discuss all product issues related to form, fit, and function.
- Set scientific and technical goals within broad outlines provided by top management.
- Work on, investigate, and report or serve as a resource on projects requiring advanced knowledge of a particular field of specialization.
Qualifications:
Education and/or Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering
- 1 to 3 years of
- Design responsibility for the development and oversight of products
- Hydraulic circuit design
- Valve, pump, or motor design
- Active participation in a hydraulics or SAE society during undergraduate program is highly desired.
Language Skills
- Read, analyze, and interpret engineering designs, drawings, test results and studies, and all other related information pertaining to materials, treatments, processing, and manufacturing.
- Respond to inquiries or complaints from customers.
- Write reports and business correspondence.
- Effectively present information to management and customers.
Mathematical Skills
- Calculate figures and amounts such as proportions, percentages, area, circumference, volume
- Apply concepts of algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, and other engineering computations dealing with finite element analysis, and material fatigue.
- Explain mathematical calculations and their relationship to product form, fit, function, limits, and life expectancy.
Reasoning Ability
- Define problems, collect and research data, establish facts, use intuition and experience to complement data, and draw valid conclusions.
- Interpret an extensive variety of technical, complex, and/or diverse information in mathematical form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
Physical Demands
- Occasionally required to reach above shoulders, climb, kneel, or crouch.
- Frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and capability to occasionally lift and/or to move up to 25 pounds.
- Using hand tools, assemble and disassemble test-stand set-ups, products, and their installation and come into close contact with various operating fluids required for the test, function, and performance evaluation of products.
Other Qualifications
- Operate a variety of office equipment such as a personal computer, calculator, telephone, fax machine,
- Operate hoists, cranes, lab and production test stand equipment along with associated devices used for monitoring and measuring all size and performance aspects of a product under development, test or production.
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2nd Shift Positions:
CNC Machine Operator (Lathes) - Click for Details
Type: Full-Time, 2nd Shift
Essential Functions:
- Work from process operation documents to setup, adjust and operate CNC Lathes such as Mori Seiki SL403 and Mori Seiki NLX2500.
- Perform and document in-process inspections during production by using a variety of gages and other precision measuring instruments.
- Read G and M code along with blueprints to verify process accuracy when needed.
- Work with Manufacturing Engineers and/or CNC Programmers to prove out new processes, tooling, and fixtures; provide input to optimize machining processes.
Qualifications:
- Education requirements: High school diploma or equivalent.
- Experience: One to three years minimum.
- Physical requirements: Ability to lift up to 15 pounds on a frequent basis; may lift up to 50 pounds on occasion.
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CNC Machine Operator (Mills) - Click for Details
Type: Full-Time, 2nd Shift
Openings: One
Essential Functions:
- Work from process operation documents to setup, adjust and operate CNC Mills including Mori NV5000 vertical mills, OKK600 pallet changing horizontal mills, and OKK500 pallet changing horizontal mills.
- Perform and document in-process inspections during production by using a variety of gages and other precision measuring instruments.
- Read G and M code along with blueprints to verify process accuracy when needed.
- Work with Manufacturing Engineers and/or CNC Programmers to prove out new processes, tooling, and fixtures; provide input to optimize machining processes.
Qualifications:
- Education requirements: High school diploma or equivalent.
- Experience: One to three years minimum.
- Physical requirements: Ability to lift up to 15 pounds on a frequent basis; may lift up to 50 pounds on occasion.
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Power Units Division
Ashland, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Component Technician - Click for Details
Type: Full-Time, First Shift
Openings: One
Essential Functions:
- Convert hydraulic pumps and valves from existing inventory into new configurations.
- Operate hand and power tools, testing fixtures, and measuring devices.
- Visually verify product complies to customer and company specifications.
- Functionally test product.
- Deliver product to shipping for final packaging.
- Responsible for organization of tools and workstation cleanliness.
- Perform other duties as assigned which may include assisting in painting product, packaging product, confirming inventory, etc.
Qualifications:
- High school diploma or GED.
- Strong Mechanical Aptitude.
- Ability to read drawings, prints, schematics, diagrams, bills of materials, customer specifications.
- Understanding how fluid power works is beneficial.
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European Sales and Service
United Kingdom
Technical Sales Representative - Click for Details
Type: Full-Time, First Shift
Openings: One
Essential Functions:
Note: This list of duties and responsibilities is not all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties and responsibilities, as management may deem necessary from time to time.
- Function primarily as Outside Sales and travel to customer locations as required.
- Establish themselves as the primary sales contact point at Dynex UK for specifically assigned distributor, direct user, and OEM accounts.
- Visit assigned accounts on a routine basis.
- Provide product training, demonstrate and familiarize accounts with new product(s) or any other activities as required and approved by the company.
- Provide technical advice and assist customers, as required, to specify Dynex product(s) into customer applications.
- Provide quotations including:
- Price(s), terms and conditions of sale, delivery dates, and/or any other relevant information required and/or approved by the company.
- Evaluate and develop key markets.
- Evaluate and identify market potential based on:
- Market Size
- Industries that are relevant to Dynex/Rivett Inc.
- Evaluate distributors for performance in key market locations.
- Recommend removal or addition of new distributors in key markets.
- Implement those changes and work with distributors to increase Dynex presence/sales.
- Recommend new products and/or changes to existing products to meet changing market needs.
- Assist with tradeshow exhibit preparations and participate as a Dynex exhibit representative at trade shows as required.
- Prepare and submit required reports on activities, i.e. call reports, expense reports, product sales forecast, annual sales plans, travel schedule/plans.
- Evaluate and identify market potential based on:
- Visit assigned accounts on a routine basis.
- Direct experience selling a technical product.
- Outside sales experience.
- Strong communication skills.
- Good computer skills.
- Travel as much as required by the job or as specified by upper management. Typical travel estimated to be 25-30% of each month.
- Valid passport and driver’s license.
Other Qualifications: (Desired but not Mandatory)
- Hydraulic component and system training/experience is preferred, but other disciplines will be considered.
- Able to read and understand a hydraulic schematic.
- Understand the principles of fluid power.
- Perform standard calculations related to flow, pressure, and power.
- Experience working with a fluid power or technical component distributor organization.Exposure to direct OEM sales.
- Ability to speak and/or write in additional languages besides English.
- French, Italian, German, etc.
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Internal Sales Representative - Click for Details
Type: Full-Time, First Shift
Openings: One
Essential Functions:
- Respond to any customer inquiry (Phone, Email, etc.)
- Maintain and operate the computer software
- Liaise with Dynex inter-company Divisions (Dynex USA, Dynex UAE)
- Liaise with all company suppliers
- Ensure that all goods are dispatched by the most appropriate means
- Manage database records such as price lists, customer records, part information, territory information, incoming email, and other databases used by the Sales department.
- Review and distribute weekly reports provided from Sales to the company. (Orders, Department Staff Notes, etc.)
Qualifications:
Education
GCSE Required
Experience and/or Training
- Experience selling technical products
- Hydraulics training/experience is preferred, but other disciplines will be considered
Licenses/Certificates
Valid Driver’s License
Technology/Equipment
- Good computer skills and use of Microsoft based software (Outlook, Word, Excel)
- Effective communication skills
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Middle East Sales
Dubai, UAE
There are no positions available at this time.