Axalta Coating Systems Looking for at Kansas Full Time

Job Responsibilities:

• Support relationships with both manufacturing and engineering at customer sites.
• Maintain key communication regarding daily projects and line issues.
• Provide technical direction and assistance to customers on the use of product lines.
• Have working knowledge of paint technologies.
• Respond to questions and concerns regarding product lines and general operations.
• Troubleshoot & resolve painting issues and problems by provide recommendations on issues related to product, application, inventory and general paint process.
• Assist customer to overcome line problems. Gather data and material samples for analysis, testing and reporting.
• Assist with daily paint consumption, invoices, inventory, and paint ordering.
• Communicate data collection including (but not limited to): Viscosity and Temperature data, appearance data using Wave Scan and film build collection devices. Collect and understand how to analysis the data.
• Regularly report data collection results summary internally and to the customer if required.  Notify appropriate parties if data reveals result outside of expectations.
• Supports monthly plant quality reports for customers. Make recommendations regarding specification ranges (i.e. viscosity) and quality ranges (i.e. appearance limits, color tolerances).
• Assist with customer demand forecast, on-site inventory and product orders.
• Support customer projects (LWRs) and test requests. Follow up with chemist for all details. Review and understand results. If requested report out results with customer.
• Ability to travel up to 15% (development/growth training, training of other employees and coverage at other locations).

• Build relationships at all levels, help team deliver value.

Qualifications:

• High School diploma is required. Additional education/college degree in Engineering/Technical field is highly preferred.
• The ideal candidate will have at least three (3) years of automotive coatings application and/or automotive coatings manufacturing experience.
• Additional experience with automotive painting equipment is highly preferred.
• The ideal candidate must have an understanding of technical (lab, research, etc.) principles and practices.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills is required.
• The ideal candidate must be able to work in a fast-paced manufacturing environment while handling multiple projects at any given time.
• Experience with Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) preferred.