Plating/Painting Technician

The L.S. Starrett Company; Athol (MA); On-site; USD 28,171 - 37,222; Full time

Job summary

The L.S. Starrett Company is seeking a plating technician in Athol, Massachusetts. Responsibilities include operating coating equipment, maintaining chemicals, and ensuring compliance with safety standards. The ideal candidate will have experience in chemical handling and metal cleaning degreasers.

The position offers a pay range of $20.45 to $27.02 per hour, depending on experience. Join us to be part of a team that values safety and quality in manufacturing!

Qualifications

• Chemical handling experience required.
• Must be able to wear a respirator and pass required pulmonary testing.
• Experience using and maintaining metal cleaning degreasers is important.
• Prior knowledge of plating chemistry or willingness to learn is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Operate equipment designed to coat products and monitor the process.
• Ensure chemicals are added to tanks as needed.
• Empty chemical tanks and make new batches as required.
• Use and maintain metal cleaning degreasers.
• Maintain equipment and racks in good working order.
• Conduct powder coat painting of parts.
• Perform Black Oxide penetration coating of parts.
• Strip parts racks and maintain as needed.
• Ensure compliance with health and safety standards.

Skills

Chemical handling experience

Ability to wear a respirator

Experience with metal cleaning degreasers

Knowledge of plating chemistry

Job description

Job Summary

As a plating technician in a manufacturing facility, your duties are to use a variety of materials to coat metal parts. You operate the equipment designed to coat the products and monitor the process. You ensure the materials required are added to tanks as necessary to provide the best application of plated material. When you are not plating or coating products, you maintain equipment and racks in good working order.

Responsibilities

• Operate equipment designed to coat products and monitor the process.
• Ensure the chemicals required are added to tanks as necessary to provide the best application of plated material.
• Empty out chemical tanks and make new batches as required by the process.
• Use and maintain metal cleaning degreasers.
• Maintain equipment and racks in good working order.
• Powder coat painting of parts.
• Black Oxide penetration coating of parts.
• Stripping parts racks and maintaining as needed.
• Maintain and assure compliance with all health and safety standards.

Qualifications

• Chemical handling experience.
• Must be able to wear a respirator and pass required pulmonary testing.
• Experience using and maintaining metal cleaning degreasers.
• Prior knowledge of plating chemistry or willingness to learn.

Pay Range

$20.45/hour – $27.02/hour