Open Roles
Electrical Engineer - Casting
Position Overview:
- Provide leadership and technical solutions to ensure the highest standards for Environmental, Health and Safety are achieved.
- Provide technical ownership of manufacturing equipment and systems.
- Provide technical support to maintenance and operations to improve equipment uptime, capability, reliability, and throughput.
Required Qualifications:
- Engineering fundamentals (BSEET or BSEE)
- 3 to 7 years of experience
- Knowledge and troubleshooting skills of overhead and ganty cranes
- Troubleshooting electrical systems, controls, drives, DC/AC control systems and 13.8 KV/480 KV power systems
- PLC programming (Allen Bradley, Siemens, Modicon)
- Experience with frequency drives, combustion systems and instrumentation control
- Familiar with National Electrical Code, including NFPA70E
- Familiarity with Aluminum Coil Processing
- Proficient in MS Excel and Word; Familiar with MS Access.
Production Design Engineer
Position Overview:
The Product Design Engineer will be based out of the Plymouth, Michigan location with work from home flexibility, and will report into the Head of Product Development NA. The main focus of this role will be to support different OEMs located in US such as Ford, GM, Stellantis, etc. on the acquisition of new projects for extruded aluminum alloys products solutions with a focus on crash-management-structures, BIW structures, battery-enclosures, etc.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor degree in mechanical engineering or comparable (required)
- Working knowledge of Office and MS products (required)
- GD&T knowledge (required)
- CAD experience: CATIA v5 (preferred)
Automation Engineer
Position Overview:
An Automation Engineer utilizes technology to improve, streamline and automate a manufacturing process. They are responsible for planning, implementation, and monitoring of such technology. An Automation Engineer uses technology to oversee or manage the manufacturing process. The aim of this technology is to streamline the manufacturing process to make it as efficient as possible.
Required Qualifications:
- Engineering Degree or technical degree/experience preferred
- Minimum 5-10 years’ experience in plant technical role, preferably in the rolling industry
- Knowledge and experience in troubleshooting advanced electrical equipment.
- Understand high level schematics and have a knowledge of PLC code.
- Knowledge of Low Voltage Power Systems.
- Excellent computer skills particularly in programming and software development.
Industrial IT Lead
Position Overview: The Industrial IT Lead will be responsible for the daily operational planning, organizing, and executing all OT functions at the location. This includes managing OT operations to meet customer requirements, collaborating with cross-functional operational teams in areas such as maintenance and automation, supporting and maintaining existing applications, and providing guidance to cross-functional teams while building solutions related to IT/OT operations. This position is based in Muscle Shoals, AL and will focus on local operations and plant capabilities.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Engineering, Business, in a related field or an equivalent degree.
- 6+ years of diversified experience in IT and OT, preferably supporting a larger manufacturing facility and in a matrix organization with cross-functional teams.
- Experience with OT infrastructure required.
- Experience with Industrial Protocols and terminology such as SCADA, MODBUS, OPC, Ethernet/IP, Profinet, Latterlogic.
Project Electrical Engineer - Casting
Position Overview: This role is dedicated to major facilities improvements, including designing new casting furnaces, drying furnaces, and general facility improvements associated with major upgrades. Each project requires an integrated team consisting of internal resources including engineering, managers, operations, process, EHS, and reliability; as well as external OEM and design firms. This position is a leadership role within this casting project group.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering with 3 years engineering experience or Technical Associates Degree with 7 years of experience.
- Industrial plant experience is desired
- Casting experience is preferred
- Willingness to learn project management, quality, and lean methodologies & techniques.
- Technical Skills mastery – Design, validation and troubleshooting
- Proficient with typical computer based software and systems
Sr. IT Manager
Position Overview: The Automotive Structures North America (ASNA) Sr. IT Manager will be responsible for implementing and managing IT staff and applications systems, delivering business critical IT solutions and support in a high paced, high demand Automotive manufacturing environment. This position will be a business partner to the ASNA General Manager and Leadership team. The role will have IT responsibilities in three manufacturing facilities (Van Buren, MI, White, GA and San Luis Potosi, MX) and one office location (Plymouth, MI).
Required Qualifications:
- 10+ years of IT experience in a manufacturing environment supporting enterprise level systems (required)
- 5+ years IT management experience leading small sized teams (required)
- Hands on experience working with PLEX ERP & EDI (required)
- Experience with PLEX MES (required)
- OX and TISAX experience (preferred)
- Have a service oriented and a consultative style of operating.
Reliability Engineer - Hot Rolling
Position Overview: The Reliability Engineer will be responsible for improving the reliability, availability, and maintainability of the hot rolling process. This role involves analyzing equipment performance, identifying areas for improvement, and implementing strategies to enhance the overall efficiency and safety of the production process.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in reliability engineering, preferably in the aluminum or metals industry.
- Strong knowledge of hot rolling processes and equipment.
- Proficiency in reliability analysis tools and techniques (e.g., FMEA, RCA, RCM).
- Experience with CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management Systems).
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Knowledge of safety and environmental regulations related to the aluminum industry.
- Professional certification in reliability engineering (e.g., CRE, CMRP) preferred
- Experience with Six Sigma or Lean Manufacturing methodologies preferred
- Familiarity with condition monitoring technologies (e.g., vibration analysis, thermography) preferred.
Electrical Engineer - Plate
Position Overview: Primary responsibility is to apply the principals and practical application of electrical engineering in the design, manufacturing, maintenance, troubleshooting, reliability and continuous improvement of the process to meet departmental goals and future business requirements.
Required Qualifications:
- Engineering Fundamentals (BSEET or BSEE)
- Assessing and reporting safety hazards associated with low to medium voltage equipment
- Preferred knowledge and troubleshooting skills of overhead and gantry cranes
- Troubleshooting electrical systems, controls, drives, DC/AC control systems, and 13.8 KV/480 KV power systems
- PLC programming (ex. Allen Bradley, Siemens, Modicon)
- Experienced with frequency drives, combustion systems, and instrumentation control.
- Familiar with National Electrical Code, including NFPA70E
- Estimate maintenance/project cost and accurate timelines
- Proficient with MS Excel, MS Word, and familiar with MS Project
- Familiarity with Aluminum Coil Processing processes
IT Director
Position Overview: The IT Director will be responsible for implementing and managing IT staff and applications systems, delivering business critical IT solutions and support in a high paced, high demand Heavy Metals manufacturing environment. Be a business partner to the BU Leader/s and the BU SLT. This role is based in Muscle Shoals, AL/Bowling Green, KY.
Required Qualifications:
- 10+ years of IT experience in a manufacturing environment supporting enterprise level systems
- 5+ years IT management experience leading small sized teams (preferred)
- Must be familiar with SAP ERP, and EDI
- Demonstrated ability to lead IT projects to completion on time and on budget
- Ability to travel both domestically and internationally up to 15% of the time
- Be a visionary and a strategic leader of a technology organization with full responsibility to manage the business.
- Have strong leadership qualities and skills, managing a team of resources that will be in multiple geographic locations.
- Have strong leadership qualities and skills, managing a team of resources that will be in multiple geographic locations.
- Management of financial budgets and other administrative tasks such as people reviews, employee growth and management and compliance and audits for SOX, TISAX and other certifications.
IT Infrastructure Manager
Position Overview: The IT Infrastructure Manager is responsible for the overall planning, organizing, and execution of all IT functions at the location. This includes directing all IT operations to meet customer requirements as well as the support and maintenance of existing applications and development of new technology architectures.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering (preferred), CIS/MIS, or equivalent degree
- 8-10 years’ experience in IT management, preferably supporting a larger manufacturing facility and in a matrix organization
- Prefer experience to include at least ten years in the IT field with experience in all major areas of IT support for a manufacturing operation
- Prefer at least two years’ experience as Technical Systems, Process Systems, or Business Systems Manager
- Capable of handling people management challenges proven with experience in
- Communication skills both written and oral
- Must be experienced with developing presentation material for planning, training, funding meetings
- Able to build strong, credible relationships with strategic partners and suppliers on a global scale
- Knowledge of most major programming languages, network operation, computer hardware and operating systems
- Experience with project planning and project management
- Speaks English; some French or German a plus
Senior Technical Business Development Leader
Position Overview: As a key member of the additive manufacturing team, the Senior Technical Business Development Leader's mission is to drive the Business Development and Sales of our high performance’s products in North America. This position will identify new opportunities, establish customer connections, develop relationships, develop customer proposals and generate sales and establish partnerships with key customers, additive manufacturing equipment providers and government institutes to introduce and qualify our products
Required Qualifications:
- Masters-level technical degree (e.g. Engineering, Technology, Materials, Metallurgy etc)
- Business degree is a plus
- Established experience in the area of additive manufacturing
- 5 or more years’ experience in business development or sales
- Very good knowledge of Automotive, Aerospace or Defense customers is key
- Experience in negotiation with large customers (e.g. Boeing, Lockheed Martin, GE, GM, Ford, Tesla, Stellantis, SpaceX etc.)
- Self-organization and autonomy
- Excellent communication skills
- Capacity to write technical & customer reports
- Fluent in English
- Ability to speak French or other languages are a plus
R&D Engineer
Position Overview:
C-TEC Plymouth (Michigan, USA) is recruiting a new R&D Engineer in surface treatments and corrosion, primarily to support our aluminum automotive bodysheet and packaging businesses. Working with the ACS group (Analysis, Corrosion, and Surface treatments), the R&D Engineer will contribute to the development/qualification of new pretreatments/coatings, provide technical support for our plants’ pretreatment and coating lines, and perform adhesive bonding and corrosion testing for product qualification and R&D.
Required Qualifications:
- Masters or PhD degree in Chemical Engineering, Materials Science Engineering, or Chemistry, required.
- 3-5+ years of industry experience in the automotive sector or with aluminum alloys, preferred.
- Solid technical and scientific knowledge on metal surfaces and/or coatings and/or surface treatment processes, and ability to apply them effectively for fast-paced R&D projects..
- Ability to work independently using the wide variety of chemistry, corrosion, and analysis equipment available in the Plymouth lab. Comfortable with laboratory procedures, surface characterization, and data analysis. Experience preferred with SEM-EDS, XPS, GDOES, or FTIR.