Transportation Equipment Painter
Transportation equipment painters apply paint to a variety of vehicles and equipment such as automobiles, buses, trucks, trains, boats, and airplanes. They operate or tend painting machines, prepare surfaces, mix paint, and apply coatings to meet color specifications.
Responsibilities
- Clean equipment and work areas.
- Verify paint consistency using a viscosity meter.
- Operate lifting or moving devices to access areas to be painted.
- Spray prepared surfaces with primers and decorative or finish coatings.
- Mix paints to match color specifications, stirring or thinning as needed.
- Use brushes to hand‑paint areas requiring retouching or unreachable with a spray gun.
Key Skills
- Operation and Control – controlling equipment or systems.
- Operation Monitoring – monitoring gauges, dials, or other indicators.
- Monitoring – assessing performance and making improvements.
- Coordination – adjusting actions in relation to others.
- Critical Thinking – using logic to evaluate solutions.
- Quality Control Analysis – testing and inspecting products, services, or processes.
Other Job Titles
- Top Coater
- Dope Sprayer
- Refinish Technician
- Railroad Car Letterer
- Aircraft Painter