Aircraft Paint Technician — Robotic Spray Specialist

PDS Defense, Inc.; Tulsa (OK); On-site; USD 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Direct deposit

401(k)

Short-term disability insurance

Skills training

DailyPay

Career counseling

Affordable medical coverage

Job summary

PDS Defense, Inc. is seeking a Painter in Tulsa, OK. The position supports light industrial/manufacturing operations and involves applying finishes to metal parts, reading blueprints, and maintaining safety standards.

Responsibilities include moving parts, preparing surfaces, operating painting equipment, and ensuring tool and part quality in a fast-paced environment. Military veterans encouraged to apply; security clearance not required for this assignment.

Responsibilities

• Read and interpret blueprints, drawings, specifications, planning documents, sketches, engineering orders, electronic work instructions, charts, and graphs to determine the methods and sequences of operations required to support processing and painting operations.
• Set up and operate chern-mill processing equipment to remove specified amounts of metal from sheet metal parts, and assemblies, extrusions and forgings utilizing etching solution, includes developmental. Experimental, first run and parts with non-symmetrical surfaces, radial tapers, deep draws, or complex contours.
• Set up and operate, adjust, and regulate various types and sizes of ovens and furnaces and quenching tanks to heat treat metal parts made from aluminum, titanium, stainless steel, and other similar metals. Load on racks to minimize warpage and obtain even heat. As necessary operate hand and power moving and lifting equipment to place parts in ovens furnaces, and baths and quench.
• Set up and operate processing equipment to anodize and electro plate or clean metal parts and assemblies. Determine sequences of dips and rinses, position parts and electrodes, calculate and adjust immersion times, temperatures, and voltage amperage levels. Check and maintain processing solutions and chemicals in tanks as required.
• Set up and operate various types of paint spraying equipment or dip, roll and brush interior, exterior prime, protective or finish coats on aircraft, automobiles, trucks, trailers, parts and assemblies.
• Thin and mix paints and other surfacing materials.
• Set up and operate robotic spray coating equipment by selecting and loading program tapes, masking material surfaces, mixing blend coating material and controlling spray flow rates, pressures, plume geometry and robot travel speed and pattern.
• Apply finish coats where, difficult access and special care must be taken to avoid runs and inconsistencies of coat thickness, a baked smooth or wrinkle finish is required, assemblies require hand brushwork.
• Operate robotic spray coating equipment to apply radar absorptive materials to surfaces.
• Perform rework and touch-up when tests disclose rework necessary.
• Record manufacturing data and statistics manually or with the aid of a computer or computer-based system.

Job description

PDS Defense, Inc. is seeking a Painter in Tulsa, OK. The position supports light industrial/manufacturing operations and involves applying finishes to metal parts, reading blueprints, and maintaining safety standards.

Responsibilities include moving parts, preparing surfaces, operating painting equipment, and ensuring tool and part quality in a fast-paced environment. Military veterans encouraged to apply; security clearance not required for this assignment.