Exploring Careers in Manufacturing: A Day at Steffes

Steffes welcomed Connor Dilse, a Senior at Scranton High School, to job shadow our team for the day. Dilse learned about our manufacturing facilities and processes while shadowing our team on the floor followed by shadowing our manufacturing engineers in their offices. Dilse was interested in completing a job shadow at Steffes because of our … Read More

Steffes Welcomes Exchange Student from the Republic of Moldova

Steffes welcomed Prepelita Marius, an exchange student from the Republic of Moldova, to shadow manufacturing engineer Seth Obritsch for the day. Marius is a Junior in high school completing a foreign exchange study at South Heart High School for two months. Through the exchange program, Marius is learning about American culture and working on his … Read More

STEFFES SPOTLIGHT: Patrick Anderson

Patrick Anderson first started at Steffes as a New Product Development Design Intern in college. It was through his internship that he realized Steffes was a company he wanted to work for. Anderson began working at Steffes full-time as a Product Engineer at our Dickinson facilities after graduating from Michigan Tech University nearly three years … Read More

STEFFES SPOTLIGHT: The Intern Bunch

Steffes interns 2019 posing for a group photo in Medora

Steffes welcomed 18 Interns this summer between the Dickinson, Grand Forks East, and Grand Forks West facilities. The internship program at Steffes formally began in 2014 and has grown over the years, this summer the number of interns in the program doubled from last summer! To celebrate Steffes interns, we hosted our annual Intern Week … Read More

STEFFES SPOTLIGHT: Kristal Fields

Kristal Fields will celebrate 6 years with Steffes as a Training Specialist in August. Originally from Portland, Oregon, she has resided in Dickinson for long enough to call it home.   In her role, Kristal conducts a variety of trainings for employees including TWI, ALICE, PREPARE, and Defensive Driving. Fields also directs the mentor program … Read More

STEFFES SPOTLIGHT: John Stempinski

John Stempinski has been with Steffes since we first opened our Grand Forks facility in 2012. He started as a laser operator and transitioned into a supervisor role within 4 months. His roles have shifted as our Grand Forks production has grown, including building supervisor and weldments supervisor. When we started to bring in multiple … Read More

STEFFES SPOTLIGHT: Bobby Phelps

Bobby Phelps is part of our growing remote oil and gas  team. In fact, he was one of the first members. He became our second remote employee as a part of our expansion into new oil plays after the Bakken. He is in his 4th year of being our Field Service Technician for the Permian Basin in … Read More

STEFFES SPOTLIGHT: Shannon Doss

Shannon Doss came to work for Steffes three and a half years ago as a Shipping and Receiving Clerk after a friend who worked here recommended that he apply. At Steffes, we have an employee referral program because we believe that our best recruiters are our employees. When they refer someone who gets hired at … Read More

STEFFES SPOTLIGHT: Andy Bossett

Andy Bosset joined Steffes a year and a half ago as an ETS assembly technician. Since then he has progressed in the company and currently is the production supervisor for the powder coat paint line.As production supervisor, he leads the paint line towards quality, safety and production goals. He also assists with continuous improvement efforts, … Read More

STEFFES SPOTLIGHT: Kalen McCall

Kalen McCall has been with Steffes about a year and a half. He came from a job in retail and decided to apply at Steffes after a coworker also joined Steffes and encouraged him to join as well. He started at Steffes as an Assembly Technician but has since been promoted. He is currently the … Read More