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Engineer - Paint Materials

TekWissen LLC

  • Georgetown, KY
  • Today
  • $56.02

Highlights

Reporting to the Client Production Engineering Paint Materials Manager, the person in this role will support the Client Paint department's objective to be a global leader in new material development and move towards plant of the future initiatives to ensure flexibility and competitiveness. The primary responsibility of this Paint Materials Engineer is to evaluate and manage new model color paint trials, new material technologies, and support current production initiatives to reduce material cost and improve material performance.

Numbers & Facts

LocationGeorgetown, KY
IndustryComputer/IT Services
Salary$56.02
Company Size100 to 499 employees
Year Founded2009
Websitehttp://www.tekwissen.com/

Description

Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients worldwide.
Our client is a recognized prominent global enterprise in the automotive sector, listed among the top 50 companies in the Global Fortune rankings. As a leading player in the global automotive industry, our client manufactures vehicles in 27 countries and effectively markets them across over 170 countries and regions worldwide.
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Job Title: Engineer Paint Materials
Location: Georgetown, KY 40324
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite

Description:
  • Client's Paint Production Engineering Department is looking for a passionate and highly motivated Paint Materials Engineer.
  • Reporting to the Client Production Engineering Paint Materials Manager, the person in this role will support the Client Paint department's objective to be a global leader in new material development and move towards plant of the future initiatives to ensure flexibility and competitiveness.
  • The primary responsibility of this Paint Materials Engineer is to evaluate and manage new model color paint trials, new material technologies, and support current production initiatives to reduce material cost and improve material performance.
Responsibilities:
  • Lead new color & material introductions to all NAMCs (body & resin paint) from lab workability through online testing and production approval, including trial planning, quality evaluations, and direction setting recommendations primary focus on paint & resin shops at TMMMS, TMMI, and MTMUS.
  • Establish process controls and parameters (RJ) for new materials/technologies and gain one-voice among cross-functional teams.
  • Lead materials-related problem solving across multiple divisions; applying TBP methods to identify root-cause and countermeasures.
  • Support and assess CPU and Environmental impacts of new materials; quantify cost/benefit and lead decision-making with stakeholders.
  • Support Client PE Paint department Hoshin objectives.
Requirements:
Qualifications:
  • Bachelor of Science in Engineering or equivalent work experience.
  • Proficient summarizing data and creating charts in Excel, building presentations in PowerPoint.
  • Experience leading multiple projects that required coordination with people outside your immediate team (other departments, vendors or external groups).
  • Experienced in analyzing data to identify the true root cause of a problem in addition to implementing countermeasures.
  • Experience creating and presenting reports to multiple levels of management.
  • 1+ year evaluating color and appearance of painted surfaces.
  • Ability to work weekends, holidays, and shutdown periods to support projects.
  • Ability to travel (up to 30%) to support NAMC competitiveness.
Nice to have:
  • Bachelor of Science (or higher) in Chemical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Chemistry, Material Science, etc.
  • TBP completed through panel.
  • Served as SME or internal auditor for North American QR/QS/QH process.
  • Project experience within Paint Pilot function.
  • 1+ years of experience in paint lab doing workability evaluations.
  • Basic Japanese language skills.
  • Basic Spanish language skills.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

About Company

WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE

TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.

To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.

Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.

It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.

Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.



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