HD Coating Manufacturing Engineer - Huntsville, AL

About BASF Environmental Catalyst and Metal Solutions

Leveraging its deep expertise as the global leader in catalysis and precious metals, BASF Environmental Catalyst and Metal Solutions (ECMS) serves customers in many industries including automotive, aerospace, indoor air quality, semiconductors, and hydrogen economy, and provides full loop services with its precious metals trading and recycling offering. With a focus on circular solutions and sustainability, ECMS is committed to helping our customers create a cleaner, more sustainable world. Protecting our elements of life is our purpose and this inspires us to ever-new solutions. 

ECMS operates globally in 15 countries with approximately 20 production sites and over 4,000 employees.

As a Coating Manufacturing Engineer – you will LEAD by……….

We are looking for a professional like you who will be responsible for the quality, safety, strategy, and production efficiency of the Coating Production Cells within the Huntsville site. Your team members will consist of engineers, engineering techs, and shift technical support for a 24/7 coating operation.

In this role, you will effectively support the operation of a Coating Cell through an operational excellence journey and tactical plans that deliver the best products to our customers and profitability to the company. In addition, you will provide strong EHS leadership with your team, as well as the Huntsville site overall. You will also provide peer leadership that coordinates support to keep the production lines running safely and efficiently. 

Your elements for success……

• Engineering degree in Industry Related Discipline plus a minimum of 1+ years of experience in Process Engineering/Production Engineering or automotive catalysts engineering.


• Develop and execute various initiatives to improve the long-term performance of the department and support immediate production issues.


• Organize, participate, and lead projects and improvement discussions.


• Develop training material to communicate changes to production equipment and facilitate the growth and development of the affected teams.


• Knowledge of manufacturing processes and process controls.


• Ability to organize optimization projects and execute efficiently: improve cycle time, uptime, scrap reduction, and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).


• Act as the primary technical lead for capital investment projects, from feasibility through implementation.


• Lead root cause analysis (RCA) for quality and safety incidents; implement corrective and preventive actions.


• Analyze production data to identify opportunities and support quality investigations.


• High level of proficiency in MS Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI and SQL data mining.


• Apply strong knowledge of manufacturing processes, Lean Six Sigma, and process control methodologies to drive continuous improvement.


• Experience with data analysis, technical writing, and presentation building.


• Strong commitment to safety culture will be essential as you support safety improvements and investigating safety incidents.


• Relying on your practical experience in troubleshooting plant problems and optimizing plant performance, you will lead the team in coater uptime and cycle time improvements.


• Experience working with a large, diverse team of engineers, supervisors, and shop floor operators.


• Work closely with production supervisors, operators, maintenance, and quality teams to improve productivity and ensure smooth operations.


• Ability to see, think and act quickly and decisively.


• Demonstrate thorough knowledge of statistical process control, statistical analysis, and quality systems/improvement processes/tools


• Ability to support departmental needs in addition to cell support.

Additional Role Requirements:

• Responsible for a 24/7 production operation, including after-hours phone support. This also includes being available to travel to the site as needed during nights and weekends.


• Responsible for their assigned Cell’s overall performance against the sites KPI’s.


• Strong communicator among the various departments within the organization.


• Strong Motivator and desire to engage on the shop floor.

You @ BASF ECMS

At BASF ECMS you get more than just compensation, Medical & Dental. Our total offer includes a wide range of elements you need to be your best in every stage of your life.

• Flexible Work Arrangements whenever possible


• Retirement Benefits with company contributions


• Competitive Medical and Dental Plan Options


• Disability and Life Insurance Programs


• Wellness Programs


• Maternity/Paternity Leave, Infertility & Adoption reimbursement


• Mentoring & Development Programs


• Employee Discounts


• Pet insurance


• Matching Donations to your favorite cause

What are you waiting for? Click Apply now to BELONG@BASF!!

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BASF is committed to pay transparency practices. The competitive Pay Range for this role is $75k-$95k annually. Actual pay will be determined based on education, certifications, experience, and other job-related factors permitted by law.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status.