Paint Engineer (Paint Materials and New Color Launch)

Qualifications

• Required: hands-on paint application process and top coat experience in an automotive production environment. Aerospace coatings experience may transfer and will be considered. Marine and boating coatings experience does not transfer to this role.
• Required: experience carrying a colour or coating from lab development through to mass production, including how the colour behaves differently at volume
• Bachelor's degree in an Engineering field, or related experience
• 3+ years of project management working across multiple functions
• 2 + years in colour and appearance evaluations
• 1 + years in paint design
• Exposure to production launch, scale-up, or change management
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel for analysis, PowerPoint for reporting); ability to work in cross-functional teams
• Preferred: degree in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Materials
• Engineering, or Materials Science; automotive paint production engineering; paint application and lab workability evaluation

Required Skills

• Lab-to-mass-production colour behaviour: predicting, testing, and countermeasuring how a colour or coating performs once it moves from lab development onto a production vehicle
• Paint application process expertise, especially top coat, in automotive production
• New colour and paint material introduction and production launch for automotive manufacturing
• Colour and appearance evaluation and paint design
• Lab workability and on-line testing of new materials
• Establishing process controls and parameters for new materials and technologies
• Cross-divisional materials problem-solving
• Production launch, scale-up, and change management
• Cost-per-unit (CPU) impact analysis and environmental-impact assessment
• Software and platforms: Microsoft Excel (analysis), Microsoft PowerPoint (reporting and presentations)