Description
The Village Companies – MCL Industries Division (Fabrication)
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Who We Are
The Village Companies is a family-owned organization made up of multiple businesses across manufacturing services, amusement, and consumer products. Together, we design, build, and deliver innovative products and experiences enjoyed around the world. What makes us different? We combine creativity, craftsmanship, and Midwest work ethic to create things most companies only dream about.
Learn more at www.thevillage.bz.
The Village Companies – MCL Industries Division
MCL Industries provides high-quality manufacturing and custom metal fabrication services for customers across a wide range of industries. Specializing in machining, fabrication, assembly, and full production runs—from prototypes to finished products—MCL partners closely with customers to deliver dependable, precision-built solutions. Our team takes pride in skilled craftsmanship, collaboration, continuous improvement, and building lasting customer relationships.
Located in Pulaski, Wisconsin (just 25 minutes northwest of Green Bay), we’re proud to call a small-town community home—where hard work, teamwork, and having fun go hand in hand.
Why You’ll Love Working Here
We believe work should be more than just a paycheck.
At The Village Companies, you’ll have the chance to:
We call it Happiness at Work—and we mean it.
Hours & Pay
Schedule: Monday–Thursday, 2:00pm–Midnight
Pay Range: $24.00-29.00 per hour based on experience
Perks & Benefits
We generously reward hard work and initiative with a full benefits package designed to support both your career and your well-being, including:
Position Summary:
This position is responsible for cutting different substrates of sheet metal. These responsibilities include nesting like materials, prioritizing and organized balance of the scheduled parts and jobs to be cut, staging material to be cut, reading part prints, and part inspection off the laser. This also includes general maintenance/preventative maintenance and de-nesting of parts.
Responsibilities:
· Follow safety guidelines within a fast passed work environment.
· Ensure work area is clean and organized.
· Ensure daily, bi-weekly and quarterly PMs are completed.
· Basic Laser machine operation. (Gas changes, correct nozzles and condition settings)
· Have the understanding to tune, adjust and refine laser cutting conditions to produce acceptable laser cut metal parts per drawing and company cutting standards to ensure quality of cut.
· Perform forklift operations loading and unloading Laser
· Ability to establish a proactive mind set to ensure the Laser machine is establishing the most uptime during designated work hours.
· Be looking for process improvements while going about your daily tasks to ensure efficiencies.
· Understands how the machine works and reacts to different metals.
· Ensure Jobs are being started and stopped in the ERP system.
· Work with Inventory team on any scrap or inventory needs.
· Ability to move to the work vs waiting for the work to come to you.
· Be aware of what is going on around your work area during designated work hours.
· Adhere to company policy and ensure procedures in place are followed.
Requirements
Education and Training:
· High School Diploma
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
· Laser experience is strongly recommended
· Awareness of gases utilized for laser cutting process along with relative nozzle sizes for materials.
· Understanding of how to read blue prints and parts drawings
· Computer skills
· Knowledge of manufacturing basics
· Ability to follow direction
· Flexible and can quickly adjust to change
· Basic use of inspection tooling (tape measures, calipers, etc)
· Good math skills
· Knowledge of different types of material
· Being aware of your surroundings
· Being accountable and willing to have a positive attitude and a strong work ethic.
Travel Requirements:
· Minimal
Physical Requirements:
· Bend, Twist, push, pull, and lift up to 50 lbs continuously and occasionally more than 50lbs.
· Sit, stand, and bend throughout the workday.
· Help in other areas; De-nesting.
Safety-Sensitive Position: Brake Press Operator role is considered a safety-sensitive position. Employees are responsible for operating and working around manufacturing equipment, power tools, moving machinery, and material handling devices where inattentiveness or inability to safely perform assigned duties could result in injury to themselves or others. Employees must be physically capable of performing the essential functions of the job, with or without reasonable accommodation, and must consistently demonstrate the ability to work safely, follow safety policies, and maintain situational awareness in a manufacturing environment. Safety performance is a critical component of successful job performance in this role.
Materials and Equipment Utilized:
· Hand and power tools (pliers, screwdrivers, drills , tape measures, calipers, etc)
· Computers, printers, etc.
· Forklift and crane operation
· PPE (safety glasses, gloves, and ear plugs as needed)
Working Environment:
· 100% Manufacturing: moderate to loud noise, safety glasses and steel toes required
The Village Companies is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.
