Careers
Join our HTS family
HTS Coatings is a family-owned business, always looking for qualified candidates to join our family.
HTS Coatings is a growing company that helps industrial manufacturers repair and prevent damage to their machine components caused by wear and corrosion. Our thermal spray, machining, grinding, and welding services apply metal coatings that extend the life of valve, turbine, and hydraulic components, and more. It's like spray painting with molten metal. We strive to enhance the life not only of machine components, but of our employees, customers, and vendors as well.
We are a family-owned and family-oriented company, and we live by four core values: camaraderie, gratitude, willingness to change, and high expectations. Benefits start on your first day, our company gatherings include a family float trip, and our Care Team provides support and benevolence for our team and their families.
Our career paths
Thermal spray technician Run the HVOF, arc, HVAF, flame, and plasma systems; learn grit blast and robot programming for spray.
What the job is. Read prints and follow work order travelers. Execute the job in the time allowed on the traveler, or provide feedback on the issues. Perform quantity checks on orders leaving the department to ensure that all orders meet specifications. Light preventative maintenance on the machines you use. Maintain a clean, orderly work area, which includes taking out the trash and cleaning the toilet after yourself. Learn the thermal spray systems: HVOF, arc, HVAF, flame, and plasma. Understand grit blast. Be able to program a robot for spray.
Being part of the HTS team. Communicate with and provide input to your supervisor on production needs, new projects, and design changes. Continuous improvement is highly encouraged. Be involved in the daily morning meetings; offer suggestions and participate. Become a sounding board for sales on times to complete projects.
A good work ethic. Report to work on time. Be willing to help wherever necessary. Always be professional, especially while receiving correction. High productivity: getting the work completed that has been assigned to you. Teamwork: be willing to help others and be part of the HTS Coatings family. Determined to succeed: show drive and a passion for your work. Give suggestions for improvement in any area.
CNC machinist and operator Set up repair work and new parts in four-jaw chucks; program and run mills, lathes, and grinders.
Responsibilities. Set up new jobs in four-jaw chucks and set up parts for repair. Program mills, lathes, and grinders, and operate them. Read prints and follow work order travelers. Execute the job in the time allowed on the traveler, or provide feedback on the issues. Perform quantity checks on orders leaving the department to ensure that all orders meet specifications. Light preventative maintenance on the machines you use. Maintain a clean, orderly work area, which includes taking out the trash and cleaning the toilet after yourself. G and M code programming, and learning the MasterCam package for the machines.
Being part of the HTS team. Communicate with and provide input to your supervisor on production needs, new projects, and design changes. Continuous improvement is highly encouraged. Be involved in the daily morning meetings; offer suggestions and participate.
A good work ethic. Report to work on time. Be willing to help wherever necessary. Always be professional, especially while receiving correction. High productivity: getting the work completed that has been assigned to you. Teamwork: be willing to help others and be part of the HTS Coatings family. Determined to succeed: show drive and a passion for your work.
This job is ideal for someone who is dependable, achievement-oriented, and independent.
Quality and engineering Project management, quality, and robot programming for every spray booth.
Project manager, quality, and robot programmer. This position is responsible for duties in project management, quality, and robot programming.
Project management. Partner with engineering, sales, the customer, and operations on new product development. Design and create fixtures and tooling, partnering with engineering and welding for completion. Coordinate with operations on scheduling the R&D or test pieces that complete the project. Complete the required documentation, inspection reports, and process procedures for repeatability. If a project goes to production, give operations the average hours and materials needed to complete it at full scale.
Quality. Complete and implement corrective actions. Schedule and document calibrations. Complete and keep the documentation compliant with our ISO certification.
Robot programming. Complete training on robot programming for all spray booths. Troubleshoot and improve current programs. Write new programs for new projects.
Finance Controller and human resources.
Controller and human resources. This position is responsible for duties in finance and human resources.
Accounting. Leadership, management, and accountability for the data entry accounting clerk. Accurate costing of inventory to jobs. Processing payroll on a biweekly basis. Processing accounts payable reports and invoices with receivers. Managing cash flow: daily bank reconciliation and weekly check runs. Preparing financial reports, and overseeing and preparing income statements and bank reports monthly. Preparing budget and projection reports on a monthly or quarterly basis. Investigating poor-profit projects and documenting corrective actions to improve the profitability of production. Maintaining and creating snapshots of key performance indicators, and calculating return on investment for capital expenditure projects.
Human resources. Advertising open positions and scheduling candidates for interviews with the right team members. Creating offer letters with accountabilities. Developing pay structures for employees based on their development. Scheduling drug screening. Collecting and maintaining employee files.
Machinists starting out On-the-job training on CNC lathes, mills, cylindrical grinders, and manual lathes.
Start your career at HTS Coatings. HTS Coatings applies thermal spray coatings to machine components. As a machinist, you will be repairing worn parts, manufacturing small runs of parts, diamond-grinding tungsten carbide coatings, and much more. Our line of work requires skill, craftsmanship, and problem-solving on every job. You will operate CNC lathes, CNC mills, CNC cylindrical grinders, and manual lathes. With on-the-job training, you can build your résumé and have a lifelong career at HTS Coatings.
Other careers From welders to engineers.
We are always looking for qualified candidates who fit our culture and add to our HTS family. From welders to engineers, if you want to be a part of what we are doing at HTS Coatings, send your résumé and we will notify you when the right position for you becomes available.
Where. Two shops: Madison, Illinois, and Benicia, CA (HTS-West).
How to apply. Email your current resume to cjones@htscoatings.com. You can also use the application form; it takes your résumé. For a question first, use the same form without one.
What it is like working for HTS Coatings
…they gave me an opportunity to do a job I have never done and gave me the tools and training to do the best job I can. When I had personal problems they stood by me and help me. They made me feel like I was important not just as an employee but as a person they truly care about each and every one of us.