Lead Paint Manufacturing Engineer

International Motors is seeking a Lead Paint Manufacturing Engineer – Night Shift to provide hands-on technical leadership for Paint operations at the San Antonio Manufacturing Plant. This role owns the stability, capability, and continuous improvement of pretreatment, E-Coat, sealer, paint application, and curing processes while partnering with Operations, Maintenance, Quality, Environmental, Controls, suppliers, and plant leadership.

As the primary Paint Engineering resource during night-shift production, this engineer will work directly on the manufacturing floor to respond to line calls, analyze process and quality data, restore production, and implement sustainable corrective actions. 

This salaried role may require support outside normal production hours for startups, recovery efforts, launches, extended shifts, or occasional weekends based on operational needs.

As International Motors continues to grow in San Antonio, we are expanding our production operations with the introduction of a night production shift. The night shift is Monday through Thursday from 5:30 PM to 4:00 AM, with production planned to begin in early 2027. This is a salaried position supporting a manufacturing operation. While the primary schedule aligns with the designated production shift, employees are expected to provide operational support as needed to meet business objectives. This may require working outside normal production hours, including extended shifts, production startup activities, recovery efforts, and occasional weekend support based on operational requirements.

Shift Differential: 10% differential upon transitioning to Night Shift work schedule.

• 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.

• Bachelor's degree and at least 2 years of experience in product manufacturing

OR

• Master's degree and at least 1 year of experience in product manufacturing

OR

• At least 5 years of experience in product manufacturing

• Qualified candidates, excluding current employees, must be legally authorized on an unrestricted basis (US Citizen, Legal Permanent Resident, Refugee or Asylee) to be employed in the United States. We do not anticipate providing employment related work sponsorship for this position (e.g., H-1B status)

• Advanced experience with pretreatment and E-Coat chemistry, paint application and delivery systems, ovens, booths, ventilation, and environmental process systems.
• Experience with robotic paint systems, including Fanuc robots, and paint mixing, filtration, and application equipment.
• Hands-on experience with paint-quality diagnostic tools and methods, including film build, PELT, wave scan, gloss, DOI, adhesion, cure testing, and oven profiling.
• Experience with SPC, Minitab, Power BI, process capability, DOE, APQP, launch readiness, validation trials, and fact-based continuous improvement.
• Experience managing suppliers, integrators, capital projects, technical specifications, SOWs, installation, commissioning, environmental requirements, and production handoff; AutoCAD or 3D product-viewing experience is a plus.

Success in this role:

• Maintains stable, capable Paint processes within defined operating windows and identifies risk before it disrupts production.
• Restores production safely, prevents recurrence through documented corrective action, and creates clear technical handoffs across shifts.
• Delivers measurable improvement in first-time quality, uptime, throughput, material usage, environmental performance, and total operating cost.

This position offers competitive market-based compensation, along with a comprehensive benefits package designed to support employee wellbeing. You can learn more about the benefits offered for this position by visiting https://careers.international.com/#benefits.

The expected salary offered for this position will fall within the stated range, with the final offer based on the candidates' applicable skills, knowledge, and experience.

About TRATON
With its brands Scania, MAN, International, and Volkswagen Truck & Bus, TRATON SE is the parent and holding company of the TRATON GROUP and one of the world’s leading commercial vehicle manufacturers. The Group’s product portfolio comprises trucks, buses, and light-duty commercial vehicles. “Transforming Transportation Together. For a sustainable world.”: this intention underlines the Company’s ambition to have a lasting and sustainable impact on the commercial vehicle business and on the Group’s commercial growth.

About International
From a one-man company built on the world-changing invention of the McCormick reaper in 1831, to the 15,000-person-strong company we are today, few companies can lay claim to a history like International. Based in Lisle, Illinois, International Motors, LLC* creates solutions that deliver greater uptime and productivity to our customers throughout the full operation of our commercial vehicles. We build International® trucks and engines and IC Bus® school and commercial buses that are as tough and as smart as the people who drive them. We also develop Fleetrite® aftermarket parts. In everything we do, our vision is to accelerate the impact of sustainable mobility to create the cleaner, safer world we all deserve. As of 2021, we joined Scania, MAN and Volkswagen Truck & Bus in TRATON GROUP, a global champion of the truck and transport services industry. To learn more, visit International.com.

*International Motors, LLC is d/b/a International Motors USA in Illinois, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio, Texas, and Utah.

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