Paint Line Technician — Process & Equipment Expert

Cornerstone Building Brands; Gaffney (SC); On-site; USD 54,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits start day 1

On-demand pay

Job summary

Cornerstone Building Brands in Gaffney, SC is seeking a Paint Technician for 1st shift to troubleshoot paint lines, optimize spray patterns, and drive high-quality starts with minimal material loss. You will set up secondary equipment, support preventive maintenance, uphold 5S standards, and reinforce safety practices, while benefiting from day‑one medical/dental/vision and access to on-demand pay.

Line workers will rely on you for reliable operation, teamwork, and continuous improvement

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of paint line/equipment experience.
• Able to perform duties of all positions in paint area.
• Good knowledge of paint equipment / processes.
• Good knowledge of hand tools and hands-on maintenance.
• LOTO Authorized Training required.
• Forktruck Authorized Training required.
• Able to work in non-temperature-controlled manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

• Comprehensively troubleshoots equipment, establishes, and monitors optimum variegated paint spray patterns and equipment efficiencies.
• Submits good quality first piece start-ups and strives to improve the quality and stability of the overall paint process.
• Cycles and starts up all equipment in the least amount of time to achieve a top-quality part with a minimum amount of material loss through reject parts.
• Strives to keep all operators and equipment performing at the highest possible efficiency without rejects.
• Performs set-up of secondary equipment, such as glue machines, reciprocators, strapping machine, shrink film heat tunnel and reciprocators. Maintains secondary equipment location system, cleanliness of equipment, and performs preventive maintenance as required.
• Pinpoints and determines paint problems and eliminate or correct as fast as possible.
• Provides proper care of all paint equipment such as cleaning of equipment, following tagging procedures, trouble shooting of maintenance issues, painting/rebuilding equipment to keep condition in good status and communicate needs to the supervisors. Follow up daily on maintenance work orders.
• Always safety-minded and eliminates or reports all safety problems to supervisor at once. Always put self and all other employees’ safety first.
• Provides guidance to maintenance personnel regarding machine and secondary equipment malfunction issues.
• Takes accountability for assigned 5S zone. Leads and achieves results in respective 5S zone. Conducts weekly meetings with 5S team to achieve results and to implement countermeasures to sustain results.
• Performs duties as a backup for all positions on Hoshin/paint lines.
• Performs RTO back outs/audits as needed.
• Performs assigned preventive maintenance on all paint equipment.
• Reacts to paint department downtime with urgency.
• Submits suggestions for improvements on efficiency, cost savings, packaging, etc.
• Assists shift supervisor with other duties as needed.

Skills

Paint line experience

Hand tools proficiency

Teamwork / collaboration

Safety awareness

Adaptability

Tools

Forklift operation

Paint equipment maintenance

Preventive maintenance knowledge

Job description

Cornerstone Building Brands in Gaffney, SC is seeking a Paint Technician for 1st shift to troubleshoot paint lines, optimize spray patterns, and drive high-quality starts with minimal material loss. You will set up secondary equipment, support preventive maintenance, uphold 5S standards, and reinforce safety practices, while benefiting from day‑one medical/dental/vision and access to on-demand pay.

Line workers will rely on you for reliable operation, teamwork, and continuous improvement