Blade Painter - 2nd Shift
About the Role
Follow specifications, drawings, operations sheets, and interpret a broad range of instructions to process main and tail rotor blades for overhaul and repair and production. This includes metal finishing and preparing surfaces, as well as spray painting to produce high-grade finishes on aircraft rotor blades.
- Strip blades of old finish and wash blades subsequent to stripping operations to ensure all paint removal solvents have been eliminated from the blade surface.
- Operate drying oven to ensure proper drying times for rinsed blades as well as for finish painted blade processes.
- Assist in the evaluation of paints, equipment, and techniques involved in the processing of main and tail rotor blades.
- Prepare and apply filler compounds to build up or fill holes, dents, scratches, breaks, joints, or other surface flaws; shape, smooth, and blend filler material to surrounding surface using floats, rasps, sanders, buffers, and other hand or power tools.
- Follow prescribed procedures for the application of primers, including 3917 primer, to achieve uniform coverage and proper blending within thickness and weight limitations specified on blades and associated parts.
- Correct for any adverse conditions affecting spray operations such as humidity, temperature, improper pressure, etc.
- Follow drawings and specifications, and create computer-generated graphics to layout and paint customer’s identification and distinctive insignia, and to prepare and apply patterns, decals, stencils, and other marking and identifying data.
- Perform repair operations to attain required flawless high-grade surface finish, such as sanding, scuffing, rubbing, and blending out scratches, and correcting for sags, runs, orange-peel, blisters, blush, and other imperfections.
- Mix paint, perform taping, masking, stripping, touch-up, caulking operations, etch, and perform other related duties such as painting small parts and details on occasion.
- Apply customized paint, stenciling, and markings per customer request.
- Refer only unusual situations to working leader or supervisor.
- Follow all rules and regulations pertaining to environmental health and safety.
- Contribute to the overall effectiveness of equipment by performing operator-required upkeep.
- Segregate waste material and follow good housekeeping practices.
Requirements
- High School diploma and/or equivalent education combined with career experience.
- Minimum of 2 years of professional paint and body work experience.
- Previous experience working from ordinary drawings and sketches and using variable measuring instruments such as micrometers and vernier gages.
- Knowledge of arithmetic involving decimals and fractions and its application to the reading of drawings and the use of variable measuring instruments.
Desired Skills
- Previous spray paint application experience.
- Experience using hand and power tools.
- Proficiency using measuring tools.
- Body work experience.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance.
- Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10).
- 401(k) match.
- Paid time off and holidays.
- Parental Leave.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Flexible Spending Accounts.
- Education Assistance.
- Life Insurance.
- Short-Term and Long-Term Disability.
Additional specific benefits are dependent upon the business unit and the collective-bargaining agreement. Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be offered depending on the position. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and can vary from year to year based on performance metrics.
Pay
$43.04 - $45.93 per hour.
For Washington state applicants only: Represented full-time employees accrue 6.67 hours of vacation per month, accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually, and receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO, vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on the start date during the calendar year.