High-pressure gas equipment and regulators for industrial, medical, and specialty markets
Western Enterprises manufactures regulators, gas manifolds, and transfilling equipment for industrial, medical, and HVAC applications. The tech stack reveals a hardware-first organization (SolidWorks, AutoCAD, LabVIEW, embedded C/C++, Arduino, NXP) paired with legacy enterprise systems now being replaced—they're migrating off AS/400 to Dynamics 365, a move that signals modernization of supply-chain and manufacturing operations. Active hiring skews heavily manufacturing (11 of 16 roles), with only 2 engineering positions open, suggesting manufacturing capacity expansion is the immediate priority over product development.
Western Enterprises is a privately held manufacturer of gas management and calibration equipment founded in 1952 and headquartered in Westlake, Ohio. The company serves industrial, medical, and specialty gas markets with a product portfolio including regulators, manifold systems, portable oxygen systems, and transfilling equipment—each designed to meet CGA and NFPA safety standards. The organization operates a hardware development cycle (new product design, qualification testing, sustaining engineering) supported by manufacturing and supply-chain operations. Current scaling initiatives include a battery-powered handheld hardware platform and system-wide process improvements in purchasing and inventory forecasting.
SolidWorks, AutoCAD, LabVIEW, C/C++, Arduino, NXP i.MX for hardware design and embedded systems; Infor XA and Dynamics 365 for ERP; Microsoft Office suite for operations.
Westlake, Ohio. The company is also hiring in France and operates as a privately held manufacturer with 201–500 employees.
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