Industrial filtration manufacturer serving automotive, healthcare, and industrial sectors
Hengst Filtration designs and manufactures filtration systems across air, liquid, and fluid management for OEM automotive suppliers, healthcare facilities, and industrial equipment makers. The company is mid-stage in a major SAP S/4HANA transformation across 20+ global locations—a multi-year digitalization effort visible across finance, supply chain, and manufacturing projects. Hiring is skewed toward logistics and manufacturing roles (17 of 40 open positions), with most openings at intern level, suggesting a focus on production scaling rather than engineering headcount expansion.
Hengst Filtration is a privately held German manufacturer of filtration and fluid management systems, founded in 1958 and based in Münster. The company operates 26 locations worldwide with approximately 3,700 employees. Core product lines include cabin air filters, industrial liquid filters, crankcase ventilation systems, and custom filtration solutions for cleanrooms, HVAC systems, power tools, and robotics. Primary customer segments are OEM automotive suppliers, healthcare and life science operators, and industrial plant engineers. The company is currently executing a major ERP modernization (SAP S/4HANA rollout) alongside site infrastructure projects and manufacturing process optimization initiatives.
Engineering tools: CATIA, Creo, NX, Inventor, ANSYS Fluent, Hyperworks, Abaqus. ERP: SAP (R/3, WM, SuccessFactors). Desktop: Microsoft Office, Excel. Infrastructure: VMware Horizon, SUSE Linux Enterprise. Currently migrating to SAP S/4HANA.
Approximately 3,700 employees across 26 locations worldwide, headquartered in Münster, Germany.
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