Job description:
To operate and maintain spray painting gun and/or other painting apparatus. Apply paint and other liquids to parts or products. Performs a variety of duties related to the preparation, operation, and maintenance of painting process and equipment.
Key Responsibilities and Duties:
- Select appropriate paint or mix paints using automated paint mixing equipment according to a pre-determined formula.
- Tend or operate equipment to clean, wash, strip, sand, remove corrosion, fill dents or otherwise prepare items for application of paint, lacquer or other protective or decorative coatings.
- Prepare surfaces to be coated by using various methods (abrasive blasting, high pressure water washing and power wire brushing) to remove grease, dirt and rust.
- Tend or operate automated spray paint, dip or flow coating equipment or other mechanized painting or product coating application equipment.
- Operate hand-held spray guns to spray paint or coat stationary items or items on moving conveyor system with protective or decorative coatings.
- Paint small items and apply touch-ups using paint brushes.
- Clean and maintain painting and coating, ventilation, compressed air and personal protective equipment.
- May prepare and apply stencils, computer-generated decals or other decorative items on finished products.
- Monitor performance of painting equipment and correct problems as required.
- Move items to drying areas and unload and stack them for further painting or packaging.
Other Duties, but not limited to:
- Fill out Statistical Process Control information.
- Keep work area, tools, and equipment clean and in an orderly manner.
- Other duties as decided by a supervisor.
Qualifications:
- One (1) or more years of relevant experience.
- Knowledge of spray painting (HVLP, electrostatic spray gun and pressure pot) are required.
- Familiar with all terms of painting.
- Detail-oriented.
- Reading and writing skills.
- Full use of hands/fingers.
Working Conditions:
- 40-hour work week (Monday to Friday, eight (8) hours per day).
- Fast-paced manufacturing environment.
- Exposure to highly-toxic fumes.
- Work within a special-ventilated booth.
- Required to wear personal protective equipment (PPE).
- Large amounts of time spent standing, bending, crouching, or stooping.
- Work with minimal supervision.