Overview
We’re seeking an experienced Associate Principal Painting Engineer with deep expertise in painting processes. This individual will lead innovation and troubleshooting across all painting and finishing operations, ensuring the highest quality finishes on Dyson products.
Key Responsibilities
- Process Leadership: Drive end-to-end ownership of painting processes, from development and testing to shop-floor optimization.
- Technical Expertise: Provide expert guidance in troubleshooting paint defects, colour matching, and analysing root causes to resolve complex painting challenges.
- Paint Development: Lead the formulation, qualification, and selection of paints and coatings—including low-VOC and sustainable options.
- Supplier Collaboration: Work very closely with contract manufacturers (CMs) and paint suppliers to develop new paints, run trials, and validate processes, ensuring alignment and best-in-class outcomes.
- Sample Creation & Evaluation: Oversee creation of paint samples, conduct paint adhesion and durability tests, and evaluate conformity to visual and performance specifications.
- Collaboration with Internal Teams: Partner closely with RDD (Research, Design & Development) and CMF (Colour, Materials & Finishes) teams to translate design aspirations into robust and reliable painted parts.
- Automation & Advanced Application: Demonstrate hands-on experience with spindle and robotic painting systems, including programming, setup, and maintenance.
- Continuous Improvement: Lead projects to improve painting efficiency, reduce waste, and introduce new technologies for advanced finishes.
- Quality Standards: Ensure internal and external standards for painted finish performance and appearance are consistently met.
Required Skills & Experience
- Minimum 10 years of hands-on experience in painting processes, preferably in automotive, consumer electronics, or related sectors.
- Deep knowledge of paint chemistry, colour science, and surface preparation.
- Proven ability in root-cause analysis and troubleshooting of painting defects.
- Skilled in both manual and automated (spindle and robotic) painting applications.
- Direct experience working with CMs and paint suppliers on product development, trials, and process validation.
- Strong collaboration skills, particularly with design, CMF, RDD teams, and external partners.
- Experience with sourcing, qualifying, and validating new paints and coatings.
- Capable of managing multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent communication skills—able to present technical concepts clearly to varied audiences.
Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.
Skills Required
- Minimum 10 years of hands-on experience in painting processes
- Deep knowledge of paint chemistry, colour science, and surface preparation
- Proven ability in root-cause analysis and troubleshooting of painting defects
- Skilled in both manual and automated painting applications
- Direct experience working with contract manufacturers and paint suppliers
- Strong collaboration skills, particularly with design, CMF, and RDD teams
- Experience with sourcing and validating new paints and coatings
- Skilled in managing multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent communication skills for technical presentations
Dyson Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Dyson and has not been reviewed or approved by Dyson.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision offerings are broad, paired with company‑paid life and disability coverage, plus EAP, backup care, and wellness incentives. Employer‑funded healthcare dollars and premium‑discount or Lifestyle Spending Account options further enhance coverage value.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a company match is consistently advertised on U.S. postings. This provides predictable retirement support across roles.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing programs, commuter benefits, and notable product discounts supplement core coverage. Wellness incentives and a Lifestyle Spending Account expand lifestyle support beyond medical plans.
Dyson Insights
What We Do
At Dyson we are focused on solving the problems that others have ignored; solving them first using our technology and ingenuity. In order to achieve this we need to pioneer technologies that are different and authentic. This is the core of what we do and who we are. We must strive to create the future, every single day by developing new things, different things, things that go against the grain with a diverse and global team of ingenious minds. Dyson employs over 14,000 people and is present in more than 80 countries. And while we are growing fast we want Dyson to remain a start-up in spirit with the freedom of experimentation and learning, constantly reinventing our products as well as reinventing how we work, how we sell and how we support our owners. At the same time we are working through the James Dyson Foundation, James Dyson Award and Dyson Institute to inspire future engineers and pioneering a new approach to engineering education. Underlining everything we do in this diverse environment is the need to always show respect, supporting each other as one team to overcome whatever challenges we encounter. We drive empowerment, development and equality in an inclusive environment for our people around the world. The future doesn’t just happen, we look to make it happen, to achieve leaps through pioneering new ideas
