Commercial Spray Painter

Responsibilities

• Start up and shut down Paint booth
• Ensure the proper operation of both the booth and its curing cycle set for the specified amount of time.
• Mix paint in accordance with standards, travelers, and directions.
• Before commencing each shift, inspect applicator guns, air compressors/pumps, and related tools and equipment to ensure safety and functionality.
• Cook with maintenance technicians to schedule regular preventative maintenance, thereby ensuring maximum uptime of paint booth and equipment.
• Apply coatings to objects at the correct mil thickness; observe equipment, booth gauges, and control panels as necessary to achieve optimal coating.
• Regularly update senior personnel about the general operational status of the booths, ovens, and equipment, and any emergent issues or problems.
• Make suggestions to leadership about how to improve speed, quality, or efficiency of production.
• Perform routine shift closeout activities like cleanup, tool return, and general housekeeping (a responsibility shared equally by everyone on staff)
• Other production-related tasks and responsibilities as assigned by the Production Manager, the coatings supervisor, or the company officers.

Qualifications

• Be able to pass an in-person spray paint performance test
• Have solid understanding of paint types and mixing paint
• Have strong understanding of paint gun maintenance.
• Demonstrated career experience wet spray painting in an industrial or maritime/marine environment.
• An individual certified at the C12 level who has experience with industrial wet spray painting is a major plus.
• Understand the basic physical properties and mechanics of spray painting for metals.
• Strong communication skills (because of safety concerns, the need to communicate about potential hazards with others, and to fill in technical paperwork, which requires verbal accuracy and specificity).

Benefits

• 7 paid holidays
• 2 floating holidays
• 80 hours of PTO
• A very comprehensive medical, dental, vision package

Pay

The pay range for this position will be $20-$28/hr, pay for the position will be based on experience and in-person test.

Schedule

Monday through Friday from 6:30 AM to 2:30 PM. Due to workflow levels, it may be expected that painter works split shift or late shift. Saturday or evening shifts might happen occasionally if there is a special project with a tight deadline, but the goal is a steady and reliable Monday through Friday 40-hour work week, as occasional overtime may be required.