Painter

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

Light Industrial/Manufacturing

Painter Tulsa, OK Posted: 10/27/2025

Job Description

Job ID#: 214090

Job Category: Light Industrial/Manufacturing

Position Type: Associate - W2

Shift: 1

PDS Defense, Inc. is seeking a Painter, in Tulsa, OK.

1. Move and/or obtain correct parts, materials, and tools, as necessary within the employee's assigned area as directed by management.

2. Use of all precision measuring instruments required to accomplish work assignments.

3. Capable of accessing and navigating electronic systems as required by the position program, and/or company. Company will provide training as required in a timely manner.

4. Works safely and maintains a safe work environment adhering to established company safety requirements.

5. Train, coach and/or assist fellow employees as requested or required by the company.

6. Maintain and utilize required personal certifications and qualifications as directed by the company to perform job assignments.

7. Ensure equipment and tool certification occurs per procedure.

8. Report job handicaps such as: errors in parts, procedures, tools, sequences, etc.

Representative Duties 670D # Tulsa Only:

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. Thin and mix paints and other surfacing materials.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. Operate robotic spray coating equipment to apply radar absorptive materials to surfaces.

10. Perform rework and touch-up when tests disclose rework necessary.

11. Record manufacturing data and statistics manually or with the aid of a computer or computer-based system.

Benefits offered to vary by the contract.

Depending on your temporary assignment, benefits may include direct deposit, free career counseling services, 401(k), select paid holidays, short-term disability insurance, skills training, employee referral bonus, affordable medical coverage plan, and DailyPay (in some locations).

Job Requirements

Minimum Security Clearance: No Clearance

Military connected talent encouraged to apply.

VEVRAA Federal Contractor / Request Priority Protected Veteran Referrals / Equal Opportunity Employer / Veterans / Disabled

To read our Candidate Privacy Information Statement, which explains how we will use your information, please visit http://www.tadpgs.com/candidate-privacy/ or https://pdsdefense.com/candidate-privacy/

The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable:

• The California Fair Chance Act
• Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance
• Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers
• San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance

VEVRAA Federal Contractor / Request Priority Protected Veteran Referrals / Equal Opportunity Employer / Veterans / Disabled