When your next-door neighbor is a division of Lockheed Martin , with 122,000 employees worldwide , and you become friends , your success is invariably guaranteed . Swiss Productions Inc ., originally of Ventura , California , and now located in Liberty Lake , Washington , did just that . According to Doug Long , a now-retired government sub-contracting manager at the aerospace giant , the small Northwest machine shop has been a partner for at least 12 years . He said , “ They have their act together . They know what they are doing .” While Swiss Productions owners relocated to Liberty Lake in 2021 , Long said that Swiss was the next-door neighbor where they could pop in and have something machined .
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Like borrowing a cup of sugar from your neighbor , Swiss would open their doors , stop what they were doing , and help out the folks at Lockheed with a quick project , Long said . To this day , despite the distance , Long said they still contract with Swiss Productions .
Timo Lunceford , general manager of Swiss Productions , said the company is a family business . He has been there for 35 years . His sister-in-law , Michelle Rogers is the CFO , brother-in-law , Kevin Rogers is the production manager , and his nephews Dakota and Chad Rogers and Brandon Petrash are the fourth-generation family members that are involved . They have a team of 25 employees in Liberty Lake .
Dakota Rogers is the office manager . He said the company has always been a part of his life and remembers working part-time on packaging when he was off school . He said moving to Washington state was something that everyone in the family wanted to do . “ We all lived in California and talked about moving for years ; it finally felt like the right time ,” he said . They like all four seasons and the slower pace of life in the Inland Northwest . Lunceford added that they focus on employee satisfaction with dedicated time off during the Christmas holiday and over the 4th of July .
However , Rogers noted that at times they can be workaholics , so Lunceford implemented a 4 / 10 work week over 10 years ago .