Process Engineer: Filament Winding & Continuous Improvement

GOEBEL FIXTURE COMPANY; Stewartville (MN); On-site; USD 74,000 - 102,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Dental benefits

Ancillary benefits

Generous PTO

401k with 4% company match

HSA employer contribution

Tuition Reimbursement

Profit Sharing

Company Events

Job summary

GEOTEK seeks a Process Engineer to own process development and improvements on the manufacturing floor in Stewartville, MN, focusing on filament winding and pultrusion processes. You will run trials, interpret data, and lead root-cause investigations with operations and engineering teams.

You will design tooling and fixtures in SolidWorks, scope capital projects, and drive continuous improvement initiatives to achieve reliable, high-quality production.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering (mechanical, manufacturing, chemical, or materials preferred).
• 2–5 years of hands-on process or manufacturing engineering experience in a production environment.
• Experience owning a process and being accountable for the result.
• SolidWorks proficiency: parts, assemblies, drawings, GD&T per ANSI Y14.5.
• Comfortable with data-trials, capability studies, statistics-based problem solving.
• Ability to break down goals into tasks and execute with minimal supervision.
• Strong communication across all levels from operators to executives.

Responsibilities

• Own process development from concept through production launch—equipment, tooling, parameters, and validation.
• Design tooling, fixtures, and mandrels in SolidWorks and oversee build and install.
• Run structured trials and DOEs, analyze data, and implement process changes.
• Lead root cause investigations on quality and throughput problems; implement permanent fixes.
• Scope, justify, and manage capital projects—new equipment, tooling, process upgrades.
• Drive end-to-end continuous improvement projects from problem to result.
• Develop and maintain work instructions, troubleshooting guides, and process docs.
• Use test lab to optimize designs for performance and manufacturability.
• Coach and train operations crews on processes and equipment; support off-shift trials.

Skills

Strong communicator

Problem solving

Data analysis

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

SolidWorks

Job description

GEOTEK seeks a Process Engineer to own process development and improvements on the manufacturing floor in Stewartville, MN, focusing on filament winding and pultrusion processes. You will run trials, interpret data, and lead root-cause investigations with operations and engineering teams.

You will design tooling and fixtures in SolidWorks, scope capital projects, and drive continuous improvement initiatives to achieve reliable, high-quality production.