West Michigan manufacturing firm in growth mode

"We are always looking for people skilled in operating CNC machinery," says Bill Seyferth, president of Muskegon-based Eagle CNC Technologies.

Eagle CNC Technologies has has experienced a 42 percent increase in jobs since May 2011. Seyferth says the organization hires both experienced workers as well as individuals who have never been in a shop before.  "People need to be self motivated and really good, hard workers," Seyferth says,  also stressing the importance of "soft skills" such as simple communication and math. "It is surprising that it needs to be taught, but we push the decision making down to the operators," he says. At Eagle, he says, the workers need to learn to read gauges as they inspect parts, and then share that information throughout the organization.

Eagle CNC Technologies has a wide variety of manufacturing capabilities ranging from one-of-a-kind prototypes to production CNC machining and JIT shipment of parts.

Seyferth says their growth is attributed to industries outside of the automotive industry, such as heavy construction, agriculture and oil tool work.

To learn more about Eagle CNC Technologies, you can visit their site here.

Source: Bill Seyferth, Eagle CNC Technologies
Writer: John Rumery, Innovation and Jobs News Editor