Industrial fluid transfer and control equipment manufacturer serving oil, gas, and process industries
Dixon Valve manufactures precision-engineered hose couplings, valves, and fluid transfer products for petroleum, chemical, and industrial markets. The hiring mix is heavily skewed toward manufacturing (54 roles) with much smaller engineering (12) and logistics (10) teams—typical for a capital-intensive OEM. Active projects span production optimization, equipment upgrades, and quality management system rollout, while pain points cluster around scrap reduction, downtime, and cost-of-quality—signals of a maturing operation focused on margin improvement rather than growth-stage expansion.
Dixon Valve is a privately held manufacturer founded in 1916, headquartered in Chestertown, Maryland, with 1,001–5,000 employees. The company designs and produces hose couplings, valves, dry-disconnects, swivels, and related fluid transfer and control components for oil and gas exploration, refining, chemical processing, food and beverage, steel, fire protection, construction, mining, and general manufacturing. Its tech stack reflects a manufacturing-first operation: CAD tools (SolidWorks, AutoCAD, Inventor), CNC machining platforms (Micrometer, Fanuc, Mazak, Mastercam), shop-floor control (PLC, WMS), and light enterprise software (Salesforce, Smartsheet, Logility). The company is actively hiring across manufacturing, engineering, and logistics roles in the United States.
SolidWorks, AutoCAD, Inventor for CAD; Mastercam, Fanuc, Mazak CNC platforms; Micrometer for machine control; DriveWorks and SolidWorks PDM for product data and engineering workflows.
New product launches, production optimization, QMS divisional rollout, equipment upgrades, cost accounting improvements, and inventory management—focused on efficiency and quality control.
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