Automotive H-1B Sponsorship Jobs in Wisconsin
H-1B visa sponsorship jobs in Wisconsin's automotive sector are concentrated around manufacturers and suppliers in the Milwaukee metro, Kenosha, and the Fox Valley region. Companies like Johnson Controls, Snap-on, and Modine Manufacturing have sponsored H-1B workers in engineering and technical roles. Wisconsin's mix of Tier 1 suppliers and specialty manufacturers makes it a realistic market for internationally trained automotive professionals.
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Get Access To All JobsAt Tenneco, we don’t follow industry standards; we set them, and we don’t settle for being best-in-class because we hustle to be better than best-in-class. Whether it’s our Core Values – radical candor, simplify, organizational velocity, tenacious execution and win – or our Get Stuff Done (GSD) mindset, we’re determined to become the most trusted partner and best manufacturer and distributor to the transportation industry.
With a product portfolio as expansive as it is innovative, an obsessive commitment to quality and excellence, and a global presence, we’re all about getting stuff done, so we can win.
How do we make it happen? Through the Tenneco Way. Fueled by our Core Values, a winning mindset and a relentless commitment to excellence, the Tenneco Way is how we win. It’s what keeps Team Tenneco bold, driven, and unapologetically focused on pushing past limits and redefining success.
Here, you’ll work alongside a team of relentless problem-solvers who are committed to making a tangible impact. If you’re ready to break boundaries, deliver results, and enjoy the ride along the way, you’ll thrive here.
About us:
At Tenneco, we’re on a mission. Guided by our Core Values and a winning mindset, we are committed to becoming the most trusted partner, manufacturer, and distributor in the transportation industry. What drives us? Our people are passionate changemakers who bring energy, dedication, and innovation to everything they do.
In this role, you will be the plant owner of the controls that keep ERP transactions, master data, and physical inventory aligned. You will establish process ownership, standard work, pay-point discipline, cycle-count governance, traceability, access controls, and audit-ready evidence. By connecting system behavior with shop-floor execution, you will create the trusted data foundation required for P3 Integrated Supply Chain planning, customer delivery, financial accuracy, and certification.
Who are you?
- ERP and Transaction Expert: You understand receipts, issues, transfers, production reporting, order closure, shipments, scrap, returns, and inventory adjustments. You ensure transactions occur at the defined pay point and failed transactions are resolved quickly.
- Master Data Guardian: You govern item, supplier, customer, location, BOM, routing, lead-time, MOQ, and planning data with clear owners, approval, change control, and recurring audits.
- Inventory Assurance Leader: You run an effective cycle-count and reconciliation process, analyze variances, control adjustments, protect traceability, and ensure corrective actions eliminate recurrence.
- System Governance Builder: You define plant ERP standard work, roles, access, training, backups, escalation, and evidence. You work with IT and application experts to remove barriers without creating shadow systems.
- Lean Data-Integrity Champion: You simplify transactions, eliminate duplicate work, improve first-time accuracy, and make data quality visible through daily management and root cause problem solving.
Who will you set to win, and how will you do that?
- Supply Chain Planners: Provide reliable master data and inventory balances that improve MRP, scheduling, promises, and inventory decisions.
- Operations and Material Handling: Create practical transaction standards that accurately represent physical movement and production execution.
- Finance and Controllership: Support inventory valuation, reconciliation, controls, audit readiness, and transparent adjustment governance.
- IT and Application Teams: Define business requirements, prioritize system issues, test solutions, and sustain user adoption.
- Plant and Regional Leadership: Provide trusted KPI trends, control status, systemic risks, and recovery actions.
What’s going to be your legacy?
- One Version of the Truth: A plant where ERP inventory and physical inventory are aligned and decisions can be made with confidence.
- Disciplined Transactions: Clear pay points, trained users, visible exceptions, and timely closure across all material and production transactions.
- Controlled Master Data: Sustained ownership and change control for the data that drives planning, production, logistics, and finance.
- Inventory Accuracy Culture: Cycle counting, root cause, adjustment approval, and traceability embedded into daily execution.
- Audit and P3 Readiness: Organized evidence, standard work, access control, KPI review, and corrective-action records that demonstrate sustained compliance.
Experience:
- ERP Inventory Processes: Hands-on experience with inventory, production, purchasing, sales, warehouse, and master-data transactions.
- Inventory Control: Experience with cycle counts, physical inventory, reconciliation, variance analysis, traceability, and adjustment governance.
- Master Data: Experience governing BOMs, routings, locations, item data, lead times, MOQ, and related planning records.
- Controls and Audit: Knowledge of financial controls, access, evidence retention, and audit support in a manufacturing environment.
- Change and Capability Building: Experience creating standard work, training users, resolving recurring issues, and eliminating offline workarounds.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in information systems, supply chain, finance, engineering, or a related field.
- Strong ERP, Excel, and BI/analytics capability; WMS or MDM knowledge is valued.
- Understanding of inventory accounting and internal-control implications.
- Strong analytical discipline, attention to detail, and ability to influence process owners.
- Fluent in English and the local plant language, as required.
What we Offer:
- Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package designed to support your well-being.
- Opportunity to work and learn in a fast-paced manufacturing environment while shaping the P3 Integrated Supply Chain operating system.
- Hands-on exposure to Lean, ERP, analytics, cross-functional problem solving, and plant transformation.
- Culture committed to operational excellence, simplicity, accountability, and becoming best-in-class.
Ready to build the P3 Integrated Supply Chain at Waupun
Equal opportunity employer as to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.
At Tenneco, we don’t follow industry standards; we set them, and we don’t settle for being best-in-class because we hustle to be better than best-in-class. Whether it’s our Core Values – radical candor, simplify, organizational velocity, tenacious execution and win – or our Get Stuff Done (GSD) mindset, we’re determined to become the most trusted partner and best manufacturer and distributor to the transportation industry.
With a product portfolio as expansive as it is innovative, an obsessive commitment to quality and excellence, and a global presence, we’re all about getting stuff done, so we can win.
How do we make it happen? Through the Tenneco Way. Fueled by our Core Values, a winning mindset and a relentless commitment to excellence, the Tenneco Way is how we win. It’s what keeps Team Tenneco bold, driven, and unapologetically focused on pushing past limits and redefining success.
Here, you’ll work alongside a team of relentless problem-solvers who are committed to making a tangible impact. If you’re ready to break boundaries, deliver results, and enjoy the ride along the way, you’ll thrive here.
About us:
At Tenneco, we’re on a mission. Guided by our Core Values and a winning mindset, we are committed to becoming the most trusted partner, manufacturer, and distributor in the transportation industry. What drives us? Our people are passionate changemakers who bring energy, dedication, and innovation to everything they do.
In this role, you will be the plant owner of the controls that keep ERP transactions, master data, and physical inventory aligned. You will establish process ownership, standard work, pay-point discipline, cycle-count governance, traceability, access controls, and audit-ready evidence. By connecting system behavior with shop-floor execution, you will create the trusted data foundation required for P3 Integrated Supply Chain planning, customer delivery, financial accuracy, and certification.
Who are you?
- ERP and Transaction Expert: You understand receipts, issues, transfers, production reporting, order closure, shipments, scrap, returns, and inventory adjustments. You ensure transactions occur at the defined pay point and failed transactions are resolved quickly.
- Master Data Guardian: You govern item, supplier, customer, location, BOM, routing, lead-time, MOQ, and planning data with clear owners, approval, change control, and recurring audits.
- Inventory Assurance Leader: You run an effective cycle-count and reconciliation process, analyze variances, control adjustments, protect traceability, and ensure corrective actions eliminate recurrence.
- System Governance Builder: You define plant ERP standard work, roles, access, training, backups, escalation, and evidence. You work with IT and application experts to remove barriers without creating shadow systems.
- Lean Data-Integrity Champion: You simplify transactions, eliminate duplicate work, improve first-time accuracy, and make data quality visible through daily management and root cause problem solving.
Who will you set to win, and how will you do that?
- Supply Chain Planners: Provide reliable master data and inventory balances that improve MRP, scheduling, promises, and inventory decisions.
- Operations and Material Handling: Create practical transaction standards that accurately represent physical movement and production execution.
- Finance and Controllership: Support inventory valuation, reconciliation, controls, audit readiness, and transparent adjustment governance.
- IT and Application Teams: Define business requirements, prioritize system issues, test solutions, and sustain user adoption.
- Plant and Regional Leadership: Provide trusted KPI trends, control status, systemic risks, and recovery actions.
What’s going to be your legacy?
- One Version of the Truth: A plant where ERP inventory and physical inventory are aligned and decisions can be made with confidence.
- Disciplined Transactions: Clear pay points, trained users, visible exceptions, and timely closure across all material and production transactions.
- Controlled Master Data: Sustained ownership and change control for the data that drives planning, production, logistics, and finance.
- Inventory Accuracy Culture: Cycle counting, root cause, adjustment approval, and traceability embedded into daily execution.
- Audit and P3 Readiness: Organized evidence, standard work, access control, KPI review, and corrective-action records that demonstrate sustained compliance.
Experience:
- ERP Inventory Processes: Hands-on experience with inventory, production, purchasing, sales, warehouse, and master-data transactions.
- Inventory Control: Experience with cycle counts, physical inventory, reconciliation, variance analysis, traceability, and adjustment governance.
- Master Data: Experience governing BOMs, routings, locations, item data, lead times, MOQ, and related planning records.
- Controls and Audit: Knowledge of financial controls, access, evidence retention, and audit support in a manufacturing environment.
- Change and Capability Building: Experience creating standard work, training users, resolving recurring issues, and eliminating offline workarounds.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in information systems, supply chain, finance, engineering, or a related field.
- Strong ERP, Excel, and BI/analytics capability; WMS or MDM knowledge is valued.
- Understanding of inventory accounting and internal-control implications.
- Strong analytical discipline, attention to detail, and ability to influence process owners.
- Fluent in English and the local plant language, as required.
What we Offer:
- Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package designed to support your well-being.
- Opportunity to work and learn in a fast-paced manufacturing environment while shaping the P3 Integrated Supply Chain operating system.
- Hands-on exposure to Lean, ERP, analytics, cross-functional problem solving, and plant transformation.
- Culture committed to operational excellence, simplicity, accountability, and becoming best-in-class.
Ready to build the P3 Integrated Supply Chain at Waupun
Equal opportunity employer as to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.
H-1B Automotive Job Roles in Wisconsin
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Search Automotive Jobs in WisconsinAutomotive H-1B Sponsorship Jobs in Wisconsin: Frequently Asked Questions
Which automotive companies in Wisconsin sponsor H-1B visas?
Several Wisconsin-based manufacturers and suppliers have filed H-1B visa petitions for automotive roles. Johnson Controls (Milwaukee) sponsors engineers in battery and seating systems. Modine Manufacturing (Racine) files for thermal management engineers. Snap-on (Kenosha) sponsors software and mechanical engineers. Smaller Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers across the Fox Valley and southeastern Wisconsin also appear in Department of Labor disclosure data for H-1B filings.
Which cities in Wisconsin have the most automotive H-1B sponsorship jobs?
The Milwaukee metropolitan area, including Kenosha and Racine counties, concentrates the most automotive H-1B activity due to the density of established manufacturers and corporate headquarters. The Fox Valley cities, particularly Oshkosh and Appleton, host commercial vehicle and specialty equipment suppliers that sponsor technical roles. Madison is a secondary market, with some automotive-adjacent engineering positions tied to university research partnerships and emerging mobility companies.
What types of automotive roles typically qualify for H-1B sponsorship in Wisconsin?
Roles that qualify as specialty occupations under H-1B rules generally require at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related field. In Wisconsin's automotive sector, this includes mechanical, electrical, and manufacturing engineers, embedded systems developers, quality assurance engineers, and thermal or powertrain systems specialists. Program management and supply chain analyst positions with a required engineering or technical degree also appear regularly in H-1B filings from Wisconsin automotive employers.
How do I find automotive H-1B sponsorship jobs in Wisconsin?
Migrate Mate filters job listings specifically by visa sponsorship type, so you can search for H-1B roles in Wisconsin's automotive industry without sorting through positions that don't offer sponsorship. The platform surfaces roles from manufacturers and suppliers across Milwaukee, Kenosha, and the Fox Valley. Searching by the Automotive tag alongside the H-1B filter and Wisconsin as your state gives you the most targeted results available for this market.
Are there any Wisconsin-specific considerations for H-1B sponsorship in the automotive industry?
Wisconsin's automotive employment base skews toward established Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers rather than OEM assembly plants, which affects sponsorship patterns. Suppliers with narrower engineering teams may have less institutional experience with H-1B petitions than large OEMs, so processing timelines and documentation requirements can vary significantly by employer. Prevailing wage determinations for Wisconsin automotive roles are benchmarked against Department of Labor wage data for the specific metro area, not a statewide figure.
What is the prevailing wage for H-1B automotive jobs in Wisconsin?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.