Night-Shift Lead Paint Manufacturing Engineer

International Motors, LLC; San Antonio, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Shift differential 10%

Job summary

International Motors, LLC in San Antonio is seeking a Lead Paint Manufacturing Engineer – Night Shift to lead pretreatment, E-Coat, sealer, paint application, and curing on the night production line.

The role owns process stability and continuous improvement, collaborating with Operations, Maintenance, Quality, Environmental, and suppliers to analyze data, implement corrective actions, and support launches and shift needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 2+ years in product manufacturing, or Master's with 1+ year.
• At least 5 years of experience in product manufacturing.
• Authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on engineering support for night-shift Paint operations and serve as the primary engineering point of contact for production and process issues.
• Own and optimize pretreatment, E-Coat, sealer, paint application and delivery, ovens, booths, conveyors, environmental systems, and associated process controls.
• Maintain process capability and chemistry within defined operating limits by reviewing laboratory results and trend data and coordinating adjustments, cleaning, maintenance, or solution rebuilds with plant teams and suppliers.
• Lead troubleshooting and corrective action for paint defects, process variation, equipment failures, chemistry concerns, cure performance, contamination, corrosion risk, adhesion, film build, color, and appearance.
• Respond to production interruptions, establish containment, isolate failure modes, coordinate recovery, verify permanent corrective actions, and provide clear shift handoffs.
• Use process, chemistry, equipment, quality, and production data—including SPC, capability analysis, DOE, oven profiles, film build, appearance, adhesion, and defect trends—to identify risk and validate improvements.
• Develop and maintain PFMEAs, Control Plans, reaction plans, process specifications, standard work, inspection standards, audits, and Paint process Data PAQs.
• Lead process readiness for product launches, engineering changes, and plant capital projects from requirements and trials through commissioning, validation, training, ramp-up, and production handoff.
• Partner across Operations, Maintenance, Quality, Environmental, Product Design, suppliers, and contractors to improve safety, quality, uptime, throughput, material usage, environmental performance, and cost while mentoring plant technical teams.

Skills

Night shift leadership

Paint manufacturing

Process control

DOE

SPC

Robotic paint systems

Data analysis

Lean / CI

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering/manufacturing

Master's degree in engineering/manufacturing

Tools

AutoCAD

3D modeling

Job description

International Motors, LLC in San Antonio is seeking a Lead Paint Manufacturing Engineer – Night Shift to lead pretreatment, E-Coat, sealer, paint application, and curing on the night production line.

The role owns process stability and continuous improvement, collaborating with Operations, Maintenance, Quality, Environmental, and suppliers to analyze data, implement corrective actions, and support launches and shift needs.