Senior Surface & Coatings Engineer - Automotive Finishing
Metalsa
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Job summary
Metalsa is seeking a Surface / Finishing Engineer to drive industrialization of new products from surface treatment, coating and corrosion-protection perspectives. This is a technical and strategic role that evaluates customer requirements, reviews existing finishing capabilities, and defines the best path to invest in or outsource.
The candidate should have 10+ years in surface treatment or finishing, strong experience with pretreatment and coating processes, and the ability to collaborate with
Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in surface treatment, coating or finishing process engineering.
- Strong experience with pretreatment and coating/paint processes.
- Experience evaluating or qualifying finishing processes or suppliers against customer requirements.
- Experience participating in CAPEX, equipment or process investment decisions.
- Experience evaluating make-vs-buy or outsourcing alternatives.
Responsibilities
- Evaluate customer requirements related to surface preparation, coatings, corrosion protection, and finishing.
- Determine whether existing Metalsa processes and equipment can meet new product requirements.
- Define finishing process concepts, including pretreatment, e-coat, powder coating and liquid paint.
- Identify equipment, capacity and process requirements needed to industrialize new opportunities.
- Evaluate make-vs-buy alternatives and determine when finishing should be developed internally or outsourced.
- Lead the technical qualification of external finishing suppliers and internal processes.
- Define critical process parameters and quality controls related to coating thickness, curing, pretreatment and corrosion performance.
- Provide technical input for RFQs, cost estimates, investment decisions and business cases.
- Support the evaluation of new finishing technologies and equipment.
- Identify technical and EHS risks associated with finishing processes.
- Build reusable technical knowledge, standards and supplier capabilities for future Growth opportunities.
Skills
Education
Job description
Metalsa is seeking a Surface / Finishing Engineer to drive industrialization of new products from surface treatment, coating and corrosion-protection perspectives. This is a technical and strategic role that evaluates customer requirements, reviews existing finishing capabilities, and defines the best path to invest in or outsource.
The candidate should have 10+ years in surface treatment or finishing, strong experience with pretreatment and coating processes, and the ability to collaborate with
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