Powder Coat Operator - 2nd Shift

Callaway Cares; Fulton (MO); On-site; USD 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Powder Coat Operator, where you will play a crucial role in ensuring high-quality coating of metal parts. This position offers a collaborative environment focused on innovation and teamwork, with opportunities for career growth and professional development. You will operate CNC machinery, ensuring adherence to safety standards while performing essential tasks such as inspecting coated areas and maintaining production records. If you are passionate about manufacturing and eager to contribute to impactful projects, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Career Growth Opportunities

Collaborative Environment

Comprehensive Benefits

Shift Differential

Qualifications

• Prior experience with CNC equipment is preferred.
• Ability to read blueprints and tape measures is essential.

Responsibilities

• Set up and operate CNC power coat machine safely.
• Inspect coated areas for defects and ensure quality.
• Maintain production records and adjust machine settings.

Skills

CNC manufacturing equipment operation

Reading tape measures

Blueprint reading

Basic math skills

Independent work ability

Education

High school diploma or GED

Tools

Hammer & chisel

Wrenches

Forklift

Job description

Avail Switchgear Systems - Fulton, MO - Full Time

Power Up Your Career at Avail!
At Avail Switchgear Systems, we have been delivering customized switchgear solutions for over 65 years. With three U.S.-based facilities, we offer exceptional design, engineering, manufacturing, installation, and field service capabilities. Our expertise spans every breaker manufacturer, making us a trusted partner in the industry.

JOB SUMMARY

Start your career with our team! At Avail, we value strong work ethic and character. We work hard to ensure that each of our team members has access to a supportive working environment that enables individuals to reach their potential, be productive, and work to the best of their ability.

As a Powder Coat Operator, you will be responsible for setting up and operating the CNC power coat machine, preparing, coating, and finishing metal parts using electrostatic powder coating equipment, ensuring high-quality application and adherence to safety standards. This position is based in Fulton, MO.

The 2nd shift schedule is Monday through Thursday from 4:00pm to 2:30am.

WHAT WE OFFER

• Career Growth: Opportunities to enhance your skills and advance your career through hands-on experience and professional development.
• Collaborative Environment: Join a team that values innovation, teamwork, and quality.
• Comprehensive Benefits: Enjoy competitive pay, health insurance, retirement plans, and work-life balance.
• Shift Differential: As part of the 2nd shift team, this role qualifies for an 8.5% shift differential.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

• Experience/Education:
  • Prior experience operating CNC manufacturing equipment is strongly preferred.
  • High school diploma or equivalency (GED) also preferred but not required.
• Skills:
  • Able to read tape measure and blueprints.
  • Must be trained in applicable SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) and work instructions, if any.
  • Tools: hammer & chisel, wrenches, and forklift.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain forklift license if required.
  • Able to perform simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division calculations using whole numbers as well as decimals/fractions.
  • Able to calculate and interpret common tape measurements.
  • Ability to work independently.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Perform all job duties safely to conform to our safety program.
• Inspect coated or plated areas for defects such as air bubbles or uneven coverage.
• Spray objects with solutions to prepare them for coating.
• Responsible for silver plating, grinding/sanding, and torching materials.
• Immerse workpieces in coating solutions for specified times.
• Set up and operate coating machines to coat copper bars.
• Position and feed materials into processing machines, by using automated equipment.
• Test machinery to ensure proper operation.
• Operate hoists to place workpieces onto machine feed carriages or spindles.
• Maintain production records.
• Adjust controls to set temperatures of coating substances and speeds of machines and equipment.
• Remove objects from solutions at periodic intervals and observe objects to verify conformance to specifications.
• Confer with Supervisor to determine job requirements and quantities.
• Review prints to determine setup procedure, sequence of operations, and dimensions needed.
• Identify material to be used and load material onto racks to be fed into coating machine.
• Program machine and enter commands to activate pre-programmed machine instructions.
• Manipulate controls and enter commands to start oven.
• Observe and listen to machine operation to detect malfunctions; refer to machine manual to troubleshoot malfunctions.
• Measure pieces for conformance to specifications and verify that the correct quantity has been produced; notify Supervisor of any discrepancies.
• Remove coating from hole contact surfaces.
• Perform ongoing housekeeping duties to keep work area clear of scrap and debris.
• Prevent on-the-job injuries by attending safety meetings, fork lift training, wearing safety glasses, shields, steel-toed shoes, and harnesses, etc.; cleaning work area; and maintaining awareness of hazmat manuals, ISO Standards, and safety stations.

At Avail Infrastructure Solutions, we build and maintain the world's infrastructure. With our six business units—Enclosure Systems, Switchgear Systems, Bus Systems, Critical Power Systems, Rig-A-Lite, and WSI—we engineer and build custom solutions for our customers in power generation, transmission, distribution, data centers, oil and gas, and industrial markets. Check out more information at Availinfra.com.

At Avail Infrastructure Solutions, we are more than a workforce – we are a force at work. We take pride in our craft and come together to ensure our pieces are part of a bigger impactful picture – creating and servicing the infrastructure that powers the world!