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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!

Current Open Positions

Corporate Headquarters and Manufacturing Facility
Pewaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

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!

Type: Full-Time, 1st Shift

Openings: One

Essential Functions:

  • Produces components and finished products on several different product lines by assembling parts and subassemblies.
  • Prepares work to be accomplished by studying parts lists and gathering parts, subassemblies, tools, and materials.
  • Reads and deciphers schematics, blueprints, and assembly instructions.
  • Positions or aligns components and parts, either manually or with hoists.
  • Uses hand tools, assembly fixtures, or power tools to assemble parts.
  • Examines connections for correct fit, fastening parts and subassemblies.
  • Resolves assembly problems by notifying supervisor to obtain additional resources.
  • Keeps equipment operational by completing preventive maintenance requirements, following manufacturer’s instructions, troubleshooting malfunctions, and calling for repairs.
  • Maintains a safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.
  • Documents actions by completing production and quality forms.

Qualifications:

  • High school diploma or GED.
  • Minimum 1 year of previous assembly work. Experience with hydraulic assembly a plus.
  • Ability to interpret technical drawings including schematics, blueprints, and assembly instructions.
  • Mechanical aptitude.
  • Simple math skills.
  • Ability to lift up to 25 lbs. on occasion.

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.

Type: Full-Time, 1st Shift

Openings: One

Description: Three to five years’ experience. Experience on CNC Horizontals and CNC Verticals.  Must be able to perform own set-ups. Must be able to perform G&M code editing on Fanuc type controls. Experience on the following types of machines will be considered a plus: OKK horizontals and Mori Seiki verticals.