About this role
Proforce Industries Limited in Ogun state is hiring a Panel Beater to join its engineering and production team. The role focuses on shaping, repairing, and aligning sheet metal and armored panels for tactical and armored vehicles in a manufacturing setting. The company develops armored products for government, corporate, diplomatic, and private clients in Nigeria and Africa. This is a full-time position based at the Ode Remo facility.
What you would do
- Measure, cut, bend and reshape sheet metal, armored plates, and composite materials to match vehicle body templates.
- Use equipment to realign damaged vehicle frames and body structures.
- Weld, braze, and finish metal components to achieve smooth surfaces.
- Fit and align exterior panels, doors, hatches, armor plates and brackets for proper gaps and fit.
- Identify and repair dents, distortions or structural flaws on body shells with appropriate tools.
- Work from engineering blueprints and 3D schematics to build or modify body structures.
What they are asking for
- NABTEB, Trade Test Class 1, OND, HND or BSc in Mechanical Engineering, Metallurgy, Automotive Engineering or related technical field.
- Minimum 2–5 years of hands-on panel beating and auto-body fabrication experience in a vehicle manufacturing, coachbuilding, or heavy equipment setting.
- High manual dexterity and spatial reasoning; proficient with pneumatic and hydraulic metalworking tools; strong attention to dimensional accuracy.
- Knowledge of sheet metal and armor metallurgy, including properties of high-strength steels, aluminum and armor alloys.
- Experience in body alignment, geometric dimensioning, and use of hydraulic chassis pullers and frame-alignment jigs.
- Familiarity with planishing, shrinking, stretching, wheeling, power hammering and hand-beating techniques.
- Ability to read and implement engineering drawings, CAD views and structural layouts.
- Understanding of automotive body fitment tolerances, surface flatness checks and structural integrity standards for heavy/armored vehicles.
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