Painter B - AlvU

About the role

At Sabre Industries, we connect and power America’s communities with world-class utility and telecom solutions. We reliably build a better world together; one customer, one team, and one community at a time. Our teams live out the organization’s core values of integrity, commitment, innovation, and connection. That’s how we continuously exceed our high standards of enterprise excellence—by creating a space for our engaged employees to thrive. With consistent hiring opportunities nationwide and countless career levels, chances are the next big step on your career path starts here. We work with our employees to create customized career paths and development in all facets of the organization. People will always be our greatest asset and we place emphasis on enhancing the lives of our employees.

Responsibilities

Under the direction of the Supervisor and Lead, the Painter & Blaster performs all duties in the paint & blast process, such as surface preparation, spray-gun application of liquid coatings, wrapping painted products for shipment, operating heavy equipment to move product around the large pole coating facility and perform abrasive blasting to prepare products for application of liquid coatings. The painter/blaster is also responsible for understanding and complying with safety and environmental regulations and policies as they pertain to the painting & blasting procedures.

• Operate large forklifts and all associated paint/compressor equipment including guns, hoppers and collection systems
• Follow blue prints for the coating dimensions and measurements accurately
• Prepare and set-up/blast with sand, shot, or grit
• Use blaster to prepare part or assembly surface for coating
• Prepare paints. Use wet and dry film.
• Apply high build epoxies according to project specifications
• Apply paint. Use professional painting techniques with industrial spray equipment, airbrushes and industrial paint booth methodologies while following SSPC painting practices
• Utilize a variety of spraying devices airless and air powered sprayers
• Maintain paint equipment and troubleshoot or report issues
• Clean and maintain associated compressors
• Achieve/maintain consistent DFT
• Electronically collect labor hours and track process information on each job
• Ident