Washer/Painter/Fork Truck Operator- 2nd shift

Hourly rate: $25.18 plus $1.50 shift differential per hour. Salaries are based on candidate skills, experience, qualifications, market, and business considerations.

What You’ll Do

• Clean and prepare iron and aluminum castings and sheet metal parts for painting and/or assembly.
• Powder coat or spray paint parts.
• Operate a forklift truck to move, stack, and deliver material within or between departments.
• Place parts in baskets and operate hoist to immerse in acid, alkaline, and rinse baths.
• Run parts through acid and/or caustic solutions to achieve bright dip on parts not to be painted.
• Perform simple chemical tests and add proper quantities of chemicals to maintain specified pH levels, concentrations, and temperatures.
• Maintain logs, checklists, test records, scrap reports, and process documentation.
• Clean tanks and process equipment as needed.
• Operate foam packing equipment as required.
• Apply powder or spray paint to various shaped parts, avoiding runs, sags, pinholes, and other defects.
• Operate and adjust oven controls, valves, skimmers, pumps, chemical feed stations, powder coat stations, and spray paint equipment.
• Detect and report faulty equipment, defective materials, and questionable conditions to supervision.
• Prepare and submit work requests according to specified procedures.
• Replenish perishable tooling and store in appropriate crib locations.
• Facilitate gauge control in and out of the department for calibration.
• Exercise care in stacking materials to avoid shifting or falling.
• Run errands as instructed.
• Change LP tanks or check battery water following preventative maintenance procedures.
• Handle and contain chemicals and chemical wastes or spills per specified environmental procedures; report spills immediately.
• Follow standard or prescribed safety regulations.
• Maintain work area and equipment in a clean and orderly condition following department procedures; administer 5S principles.
• Operate floor scrubber as required.
• Perform similar or associated duties as required or directed.
• Complete training as assigned.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or General Education Development (GED) certificate.
• Previous forklift experience.
• Spray painting experience in an auto body shop.
• No relocation benefit is offered; only candidates residing within 50 miles of Syracuse, NY will be considered.
• Eaton will not provide employment immigration sponsorship or support (e.g., CPT, OPT, STEM OPT, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability).

Preferred Qualifications

• Additional educational or vocational training is a plus.

Physical and Environmental Factors

• Occasional lifting of parts up to 25 pounds; most parts weigh 5 pounds or less.
• Most lifting is assisted by a hoist.
• Prolonged standing throughout the shift.
• Repetitive motions involving the use of hand tools.

Benefits

Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits, Retirement benefits, and programs for paid and unpaid time away from work. Specific programs and options depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and collective bargaining agreements.

Eaton supports second chance employment and considers qualified applicants with arrest or conviction history, consistent with local laws.