Published 12/1/2017

Top Shops Profile: MRS Machining

MRS Machining was 2017’s Top Shops Honors Program winner in the category of human resources.

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Editor-in-Chief, Production Machining magazine

Here, MRS Machining’s Matt Guse (blue shirt) chats with area high school students over a meal MRS provided explaining the great careers they can have in manufacturing.

MRS Machining serves a variety of customers in the oil and gas, aerospace, energy, medical, food service, and industrial products industries.

This group of young people from the Cardinal Manufacturing student-run business program recently got a chance to tour MRS Machining and learn more about the shop’s advanced equipment and capabilities.

This is a current MRS Machining employee who went through the Cardinal Manufacturing program and attended Chippewa Valley Technical College (CVTC). He now sets up and runs one of the shop’s five-axis machines.

Company Description

MRS Machining is this year’s Top Shops Honors Program winner in the human resources category. A women-owned small business since 1986, the Augusta, Wisconsin contract shop has built its business on relationships and family values. It works with local high schools such as Eleva-Strum Central High School (where it also donated CNC machines) and the Chippewa Valley Technical College (CVTC) to improve their skilled trades programs in part because the company has a critical, ongoing need for capable, qualified people. MRS Machining also hosts annual tours during which groups of students get to see the shop. Ongoing education is another aspect of its in-house training to nurture its workers’ skills.

The shop offers a range of employee benefits and programs including a 401(k) plan, paid medical benefits, apprenticeship program, formal safety/health program and leadership/supervisor program. The average age of its shopfloor employees is only 31, but the average years of experience is 9.