Careers

Ready for a career that rocks? We’re precisely what you’ve been looking for. Join the Tru-Stone team and start engineering your future today.

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A TRULY GREAT TEAM

A Solid Place to Work

As a custom manufacturer of precision granite fixtures, the Tru-Stone team is filled with goal-oriented individuals who strive for excellence in all they do. Our on-the-job training and opportunities for career growth help ensure our employees are positioned for long-term success. If you’re a responsible professional with a can-do attitude and a strong attention to detail, there may be a place for you at Tru-Stone! 


Beyond our comprehensive benefits package, Tru-Stone employees enjoy a work environment that prioritizes a healthy work-life balance. From our flexibility around family and school obligations to our ample career growth opportunities to our afternoon games of hacky sack, you’ll find fulfillment, financial stability and fun in your work at Tru-Stone.

Our Benefits

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We strive to provide every opportunity for our employees to succeed both in and out of the workplace. Our benefits package features a variety of offerings and company-sponsored programs to help you get the most out of your career at Tru-Stone.

  • Employee and Community Focus

    We value our employees and our community. We show that by providing opportunities throughout the year for our employees to socializing, volunteer and have fun. We support community organizations such as the United Way, Boys and Girls Club, Catholic Charities, EPIC, CMMA, St. Cloud Chamber and more.

  • Safe, Clean and Climate Controlled

    Safety is number one at Tru-Stone. We have an active safety team and employee involvement. Our facility is climate and temperature controlled to offer a satisfying environment for our employees and allowing us to produce top of the line precision products for our customers.

  • Outstanding Compensation and Bonus Options

    Starrett Tru-Stone strives to be a leader in compensating its employees where ever we can. We provide bonus options such as our Profit Share Program and recruiting bonuses.

  • Benefit Package

    At Tru-Stone, we offer our full time employees a comprehensive benefit package including health, dental, vision, HSA with company contribution, 401k with company match, stock options program and more.

  • Paid Time Off, Paid Holidays, Flexible Schedule Options

    We value your work-life balance. Therefore we offer paid time off, paid holidays and flexible schedule options.

A Career to Talk About

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WORK WITH US

Open Positions

Explore our open positions below and find the opportunity that’s right for you!

  • Engineering Specialist

    POSITION SUMMARY:

    The manufacturing engineering specialist provides an important role of smoothing the production path by making sure technical details are in order up front.  The role also updates technical details of jobs in process as necessary to document improvements and so errors or omissions are not repeated on future jobs.

     

     ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

    • Drawing review - Review new and repeat customer drawings to ensure all pertinent manufacturing details are called out.  This may include detailing, annotating, or redrawing customer parts for clarity and detail. Maintain Drawing file index. Provide CAD/CAM information for CNC programming when required. 

    • Routing review and maintenance – review process routings for new and repeat jobs to make sure all required steps are included.  This also includes verifying that the appropriate work centers are selected based on size and tolerance capabilities. 

    • BOM Review and maintenance – detail fasteners and other purchased parts to complete bills of materials for purchasing.  This task may include searching and selecting sources for special hardware items required.

    • Assist manufacturing with problem resolution of processes, drawing clarification and interpretation.

    • Assist with resolutions of quality issues as well as improvement initiatives.

    • Develop project plans as necessary for complicated projects.  Monitor progress on those plans to ensure successful, on-time completion to meet customer requirements.

    • Contact customers for clarification and issue resolution.

    • Interaction at all levels of the organization; from top level management, to shop floor personnel, to external contacts.        

    • Maintain and update Work Center Time Estimating, Work Center Methodology and general engineering procedures to ensure consistent methods and practices.

    • Work with quality to insure process integrity in relationship to verification of final product acceptance.

    • Problem solving skills are necessary.  Must possess good root-cause analysis skills and be able to implement corrective actions based on those findings. 


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  • Lab Technician I

    POSITION SUMMARY:

    Finish product using lapping plates or automated equipment. Assemble, inspect, clean and prepare finished products for shipment as required. Monitor products on a continuous basis to ensure products are of prescribed quality and meet both Customer and Company expectations, requirements, and standards.


    ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

    • Work in and maintain company standards and protocols for multi-level clean environments.

    • Follow established work procedures, and perform work assignments as required to meet all Starrett Tru-Stone safety, quality and production goals.

    • Basic understanding of blueprints, work orders, or instructions to determine product specifications, requirements, and operational sequences.

    • Understand and follow Tru-Stone and customer specifications and procedures used for the assembling of granite and mechanical components and the packaging of the product.

    • Assemble mechanical, electrical and pneumatic components, may include soldering and testing for performance and proper function of the assemblies.

    • Lift and position work-pieces, manually or with hoists, and secure them on tables or stands.

    • Set up, operate, or tend tools that remove material on work-pieces.

    • Observe operations to detect any problems, and assist in making necessary adjustments to correct problems.

    • Measure work-pieces and progress of work, using precision measuring devices.

    • Assist in inspection or measurement of finished work-pieces to determine conformance to specifications, using measuring instruments such as levels, height gages, amps, Mikrokator, repeat reading gage, Pentaprism, lasers or autocollimators.

    • Maintain a safe, clean and orderly working • Maintain all tools and ensure proper working order of inspection equipment per established procedures and requirements.

    • Supports Operational Excellence and other continuous improvement programs as needed.


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  • Customer Service Specialist II

    POSITION SUMMARY

    Front-line sales and customer service role requiring quick review, decision, and response to a variety of customer inquiries.  Inquiries vary from routine pricing, availability & order status questions, to basic application questions, custom quotes to resolving product or shipping issues.  Extensive customer interaction requiring a professional approach. Exceptional communication skills are required.  Accuracy in CRM and order entry a must. This position will communicate with various departments on coordinating fast turn time on orders. Backs up the scheduler in job entry when required.


    ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS 

    • Coordinate Sales Customer Relationship Management system on Tru-Stone and Starrett enterprise needs.

    • Review inbound sales lead quality. Develop leads, initiate LeadSmart Opportunity, distribute leads or discard as appropriate. 

    • Sales order entry, customer credit verification, stock level or lead time checks, acknowledge orders.

    • Resolve order issues from purchase order through delivery.

    • Coordinate product returns.

    • Support the Production Coordinator providing backup for job entry.


    POSITION QUALIFICATIONS

    • Excellent verbal and written communication skills required for internal and external communication.

    • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with interruptions.

    • Ability to process and priorities work quickly.

    • Good computer application skills. Experience with CRM and ERP systems required.

    • Skilled in problem solving and negotiation.

    • Solid understanding of our products and processes. 


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