RV, boat, and specialty-vehicle manufacturer with 5 brands across North America
Winnebago Industries operates a multi-brand manufacturing footprint (motorhomes, travel trailers, pontoons, and commercial vehicles) with 5,000+ employees across facilities in the Midwest and Florida. The hiring surge is manufacturing-heavy (19 of 49 active roles), but the project backlog reveals operational rebalancing: kaizen and lean initiatives, supply-chain segmentation, scalable data pipelines, and lightweight-materials adoption all signal an internal pivot toward cost efficiency and demand forecasting—pain points explicitly tied to inventory coordination and part outages.
Notable leadership hires: Director Engineering
Winnebago Industries manufactures outdoor recreation products under five brands: Winnebago, Grand Design, Newmar, Chris-Craft, and Barletta. The portfolio spans motorhomes, travel trailers, fifth-wheels, outboard and sterndrive powerboats, pontoons, and specialty commercial vehicles. The company operates manufacturing and assembly facilities across Iowa, Indiana, Minnesota, and Florida, and is publicly traded on the NYSE (ticker: WGO). Core technology stack centers on CAD/CAM (SolidWorks, AutoCAD, NX, Inventor), Microsoft enterprise tools (Dynamics 365, Azure, SQL Server), and emerging data infrastructure (Databricks, Python) to support product design, supply-chain operations, and business analytics.
Engineering and CAD: SolidWorks, AutoCAD, NX, Autodesk Inventor. Business systems: Dynamics 365, SQL Server, Azure, .NET, Visual Studio. Emerging: Databricks and Python for data pipelines.
Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Manufacturing facilities are located in Iowa, Indiana, Minnesota, and Florida. All current hiring is in the United States.
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