Jobs at Metalsa

Manages production scheduling, material planning, inventory levels, customer releases, supplier coordination, and shipping schedules. Maintains QAD and PFEP data, reconciles purchase orders, invoices, and shipments, communicates engineering changes, supports Kanban and continuous improvement initiatives, and manages railcar logistics with railroad partners. Ensures quality-system compliance, KPI performance, customer satisfaction, and timely resolution of supply and production issues. Travel of up to 25% is required for customer and railroad relationship management.

Prepares MIS reports, financial analyses, budgets, forecasts, financial schedules, provisions, prepayments, payroll reviews, payroll tax compliance, employee tax certificates, and export incentive documentation. Coordinates with departments and finance leadership while maintaining accounting records and using Oracle and MS Office.

Apply controls engineering expertise to automotive manufacturing processes, ensuring safety, quality, productivity, and plant performance. Responsibilities include troubleshooting automated systems, improving processes, executing capital projects, developing work instructions, responding to production abnormalities, researching technologies, supporting audits, and collaborating with automation and production teams. The role requires PLC, HMI, robotics, motor controls, vision systems, and industrial automation experience.

Supports installation, programming, troubleshooting, diagnostics, repair, and safe operation of robots, PLCs, and automated manufacturing equipment. Maintains programs, parameters, and documentation; champions Poka-Yoke initiatives; collaborates with maintenance and production teams to improve efficiency, productivity, uptime, and project implementation. Requires expertise with industrial controls, robotics, machine vision, safety systems, equipment installation, operational procedures, and automation adjustments.

Designs, implements, and optimizes safe, cost-effective manufacturing systems. Leads equipment deployment, applies DFMA, designs tooling and fixtures, develops manufacturing processes, estimates costs, responds to proposals, and supports production improvements. Requires CAD, AutoCAD, PLC, robotics, GD&T, and leadership experience. Approximately 25% project travel is required.

Maintains and improves robotic, PLC, and industrial automation systems in a manufacturing plant. Trains maintenance technicians, troubleshoots escalated equipment issues, governs control-system changes and backups, and supports automation projects. Leads Industry 4.0 and digital transformation initiatives, applies data-driven continuous improvement, tracks KPIs, improves safety and quality, reduces costs, and supports equipment specification, installation, and process optimization.

Owns talent and leadership development for a manufacturing plant, including succession planning, talent reviews, performance calibration, individual development plans, coaching, training design, and talent metrics. Partners with operations leaders, Learning & Development, and Talent Acquisition to strengthen leadership pipelines, improve organizational capability, and support workforce strategy. Maintains talent data and leads change, culture, and organizational development initiatives.

Lead paint-line process engineering, EHS compliance, defect troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, KPI and quality monitoring, pretreatment control, paint and chemical validation, audits, operator training, cost and cycle-time improvements, and cross-functional initiatives supporting equipment performance, new product introduction, and manufacturing efficiency.

Coordinates technical sourcing, supplier development, tooling transfers, maintenance, audits, recovery actions, engineering changes, and project readiness across multiple suppliers and facilities. Supports APQP and PPAP milestones, evaluates tooling and manufacturing risks, manages spare parts and budgets, develops supplier technical capabilities, and reports performance, timing, risks, and corrective actions. The role requires cross-functional leadership across procurement, engineering, quality, operations, logistics, and finance within automotive or metal-mechanical manufacturing.