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Manufacturing

Earn What You’re Worth

Our talented manufacturing team members enjoy some of the highest wages in the region. Our performance-based pay system rewards Safety, Quality, Productivity, Knowledge & Skills, and Teamwork. Traditional pay schemes undervalue high performers. In our system, performance determines pay. Period.

We value tenure with additional PTO and service milestone awards.

Have a Good Job, but Want a Better One?

More Reasons to Love Working Here

Joining us doesn’t mean a step back. Your starting pay will reflect your skills and experience and our generous paid vacation and personal leave plan will ensure you have work-life balance.

  • Our clean, uncluttered, well-lit facilities provide a safe and productive work environment for employees.
  • Because our customers are in the food service and grocery industries, the demand for our products is stable relative to industries such as automotive, aerospace, and furniture.
  • Our air conditioned facilities keep you cool and clean in the summer.
  • Conveniently located in Norton Shores at US 31 and Sternberg Road
  • Generous benefits package including 5% 401k contribution.
  • Share in our financial success with our annual profit-sharing bonus.
  • Starting pay will reflect your skills and experience.

Our Process

Refrigeration Assembly

Structural Concepts designs and builds its own refrigeration packages tailored to each case, leveraging unmatched expertise in self-contained systems to deliver award-winning, energy-efficient technology that ensures reliability, regulatory flexibility, and peace of mind.

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Woodshop

Our Woodshop produces custom insulated panels with painted surfaces, laminates, edge-banding, and acrylic, supported by a panel saw and three CNC routers capable of cutting a wide range of materials. With two new Northwood dual-bed/dual-spindle CNC Routers, we deliver custom designs and best-in-class lead times.

Tech Assembly

Structural Concepts’ state-of-the-art final assembly lines combine advanced materials, skilled craftsmanship, and rigorous testing to deliver durable, energy-efficient, and visually appealing refrigerated merchandisers that meet the highest quality standards, preserve perishable items, and provide the industry’s shortest lead times.

UV Bonded Glass Production Room

To achieve our vision of beautifully simple, product-focused displays, Structural Concepts uses UV Bonded Glass technology in specialized facilities where skilled craftsmen produce frameless, durable, condensation-free glass merchandisers that ensure safe food temperatures and flawless presentation.

Sheet Metal Lasers

Structural Concepts is vertically integrated to optimize cost and lead time. We operate fully automated metal cutting with 3K and 6K fiber lasers, which are capable of running hands-free, lights out, 24/7/365.

Metal Forming, Fabrication and Finishing

Structural Concepts laser-cuts metal parts from CAD designs, forms them with advanced Brake Presses and a Panel Bender, and completes finishing in our state-of-the-art, climate-controlled powder coating facility with a 6-stage pretreatment system and automated spraying technology.

Material Handling

Carefully deliver and transact components to manufacturing areas, validating parts with blueprints and job orders, utilizing powered lift equipment and manual processes.

Powdercoat

Our Powder Coat Technicians operate our state-of-the-art powder coat line to carefully produce beautifully coated sheet metal parts for final assembly into our cases.

I come in every day to a full day’s work and get paid well for it. We have good leaders…and I feel appreciated.

Abe Rodriguez, Final Assembly Technician

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With the new performance-based pay structure, we have a lot of hard-working employees that are very driven and motivated.

Taylor Beaune, Crating Team Member

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Join Our Team

Don’t see an open position that fits your goals? Send your resume to careers@structuralconcepts.com. We are always looking for talented people.

Let Us Show You What is Possible

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