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So I'm the HR support for several different functions within Viking Pump. Right now I support our foundry, our team in Windsor, Canada, and our finance team which sits at a couple of different locations. I did not have the foundry when I first started and I have the foundry now so that was a huge change in responsibilities since we have a union in the foundry and I actually had no experience working in a union environment when I started here. It actually was one of the reasons that I was interested in this job when I took it though.
Explore Viking Pump’s engineering lab, where advanced testing and 3D printing drive innovation and product performance.
When customers evaluate a pump supplier, the decision often comes down to more than published performance curves. It includes how a manufacturer verifies performance under real service conditions and how confidently that supplier can support demanding applications.
Dive into the archives and learn about Viking Pump’s contributions to the wartime effort, as well as the brave employees who sacrificed their lives in service.
If you walk through Viking Pump’s museum in Cedar Falls, Iowa, you’ll find a brief acknowledgment of our company’s role in World War II. The basics are there: pumps for tanks, submarines, and surface ships. A note about machining artillery shells. But the full story — the one that lived in the pages of the Viking Vacuum, our employee newsletter at the time — is far richer than those few lines suggest.
The first generation of these pumps were engineered in the 1940s for truck-mounted applications. They were bolted to the chassis and driven off the PTO. That harsh environment established design features that would define the product line: a footed mounting bracket, a rotatable casing, and a thrust bearing housing for precise end clearance adjustment. The second generation saw a change to the bearing housing (while maintaining the same bearings) and an expanded range of sizes, material-specific model numbers and the offering of integrally jacketed versions.
Discover Viking Pump's 115-year evolution from a single quarry pump to a global leader in positive displacement pumping solutions.
Jens Nielsen had a problem. He operated a limestone quarry in Cedar Falls, Iowa – a quarry that kept flooding. External gear pumps of the day could not lift the water high enough to pump the water to a nearby creek – so Nielsen got to work on a new pump design.
[LISA] My name is Lisa Schoborg. I'm a senior data analyst at Viking Pump and I've been here for 18 years. [CHRIS] My name is Chris Mihm. I'm the program manager with the global distribution group and I've been with Viking for just over 20 years. [Andi] My name is Andi Bicket. That's an I, not a Y. I am a senior graphic designer at Viking Pump and I have worked here for 20 years. [BRUCE] Bruce Helgeson. I'm a senior operations engineer here at Viking Pump. Been with Viking for roughly 36 years. [INTERVIEWER] Look back.