Aircraft Painter: Precision Finishes with Robotic Spray

Boeing; Tulsa (OK); On-site; USD 28,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. in Tulsa, OK, is seeking skilled painters to support Boeing Commercial programs. You will read blueprints, set up and operate paint spraying equipment, and apply finish coats to aircraft parts while maintaining quality and safety.

This union‑represented role requires shift flexibility and overtime. Pay starts at $20.00 per hour, with potential to earn up to $32.69 per hour under the collective bargaining agreement; benefits include health insurance and retirement plans.

Qualifications

• Must be willing and able to work any shift.
• Overtime is an essential function of this role and employees may be required to work in excess of 8 hours per day or over 40 hours per week

Responsibilities

• Move and/or obtain correct parts, materials, and tools, as necessary within the employee's assigned area as directed by management.
• Read and interpret blueprints, drawings, specifications, planning documents, sketches, engineering orders, electronic work instructions, charts, and graphs to determine 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.
• 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.
• Set up operate processing equipment to anodize and electro plate or clean metal parts and assemblies.
• 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.

Skills

Shift work willingness

Overtime readiness

Paint spray experience

Job description

Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. in Tulsa, OK, is seeking skilled painters to support Boeing Commercial programs. You will read blueprints, set up and operate paint spraying equipment, and apply finish coats to aircraft parts while maintaining quality and safety.

This union‑represented role requires shift flexibility and overtime. Pay starts at $20.00 per hour, with potential to earn up to $32.69 per hour under the collective bargaining agreement; benefits include health insurance and retirement plans.