Commercial Spray Painter

About the role

SJS Industrial, a veteran-owned media blasting, industrial painting, powder coating, and light fabrication shop in Virginia Beach, VA that serves military and maritime customers, is seeking a full-time professional, booth-experienced painter. This position will start on 1st shift and move to 2nd shift (Monday through Friday, 12:30 PM to 9 PM). Saturday or evening shifts might happen occasionally for special projects with tight deadlines, but the goal is a steady and reliable Monday through Friday 40-hour work week, with occasional overtime as required.

The ideal candidate is an experienced Painter with recent technical experience applying industrial or marine wet coatings to metal components. This person will enjoy collaborating with others within a fast-paced team environment and will exhibit conscientious and careful workmanship to ensure customer technical requirements are fulfilled.

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.
• Coordinate 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).
• This is a fast-paced physical job in a production facility requiring interaction with a work team in a noisy environment, so the ability to see and hear clearly, stand, walk, bend over, crouch, and lift and carry objects that are up to 30 pounds in weight are all required.
• Must be physically capable of spending the majority of every work shift standing, moving, or walking.
• US Citizen.
• Must be able to successfully pass a drug test and background check.

Pay

$20-$28/hr, based on experience and in-person test.

Benefits

• 7 paid holidays
• 2 floating holidays
• 80 hours of PTO
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision package