Mobile Railcar Painter & Blaster - Travel Ready

Trinity Structural Towers; Jonesboro (AR); On-site; USD 42,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

TrinityRail Maintenance Services is hiring a Career Painter/Blaster, Mobile Repair Traveling Team, out of our Jonesboro, AR hub.

Join our team to prepare railcar surfaces, apply primers, paints and coatings, operate spray equipment, mix coatings, cleanse lines, and ensure safety compliance. Travel up to 80% and extended schedules may be required; valid driver’s license with clean MVR is required.

Qualifications

• 1-2 years’ experience.
• Ability to follow verbal or simple written instructions.
• Ability to work in industrial environments indoors and outdoors.
• Ability to climb, bend, stoop, kneel, and lift materials as required.
• Ability to wear required PPE including respirators, blasting equipment, and fall protection.
• Railcar painting, lining, coating, or blasting experience.
• Experience applying interior railcar coatings or linings.
• Ability to travel up to 80% and work extended schedules when necessary.
• Valid driver's license with acceptable motor vehicle record.

Responsibilities

• Prepare railcar surfaces for painting, coating, and lining applications, including cleaning, masking, blasting, and other required surface preparation.
• Apply exterior and interior primers, paints, coatings, and lining systems according to applicable specifications and procedures.
• Prepare, coat, and finish metal and/or other surfaces.
• Operate conventional and airless spray equipment to apply industrial paint finishes on metal and other types of surfaces.
• Mixes and applies alkyds, epoxies, gel coats, urethane, zinc epoxies and waterborne paint systems according to a prescribed formula.
• Regulates the temperature and air circulation in drying ovens.
• Cleans paint lines, paint guns, and performs other cleaning preventative maintenance to ensure that painting apparatus remains in working order.
• Initiates and maintains all applicable paperwork as required.

Skills

Railcar painting

Safety procedures

PPE usage

Travel readiness

Teamwork

Job description

TrinityRail Maintenance Services is hiring a Career Painter/Blaster, Mobile Repair Traveling Team, out of our Jonesboro, AR hub.

Join our team to prepare railcar surfaces, apply primers, paints and coatings, operate spray equipment, mix coatings, cleanse lines, and ensure safety compliance. Travel up to 80% and extended schedules may be required; valid driver’s license with clean MVR is required.