Dotson Iron Castings
John Woelfel has a comprehensive background in manufacturing and operations, currently serving as the Maintenance Liaison at Dotson Iron Castings since October 2021. Prior experience includes a retirement period from November 2020 to November 2021 and a role as Operations Manager at Video Services, Inc. of Mankato from August 2017 to November 2020. John held various leadership positions at Emerson/Nidec from 2002 to 2017, culminating as Director of Manufacturing, and previously served as President and Owner of Midway Tooling and Manufacturing, Inc. from 1995 to 2007. Additional experience includes being President of Active EDM (1994-1995) and Divisional Senior Manufacturing Engineer at Jostens, Inc. (1989-1994), along with foundational work as a Manufacturing Engineer and Tool Designer at E. F. Johnson (1979-1989).
Dotson Iron Castings
Dotson Iron Castings benefits from a focused and engaged workforce along with a very diverse customer base. It is by recognizing the importance of these stakeholder groups that Dotson has grown and prospered since 1876. Since the beginning, Dotson Company leadership has been consistent in its conservative philosophy that consistently reinvests profits into the facility using very limited bank financing. Together, we have continually improved our operations and performance as we have moved along our lean journey of becoming the world’s most agile foundry. Dotson is a division of Maclean Power Systems as MPS-Mankato.