Industrial Painter

Performs painter duties associated with preparing and coating/lining pipes and components using various coating and lining applications for shipment. Maintains technical equipment and troubleshoots issues with equipment. Maintains high first pass quality rating.

- Follows all Safety Rules; reports any safety incidents or violations to management.

- Coordinates priorities for specific customer orders with Management.

- Confers with department management to determine progress of work and to provide information on changes in processing.

- Reads customer specification and drawings to determine type of coating, thickness of coating, and other specifications for coating operations.

- Ensures pipe is positioned correctly on paint line, operates polyurethane and epoxy machines to perform painting operations per drawing specifications.

- Completes required steps for proper paint gun, paint pump, and paint tote set-up.

- Completes run chart for every pipe.

- Monitors DEFT readings per pipe.

- Operates polyurethane pump and small epoxy sprayer.

- Completes Paint Start-Up and Paint Shutdown Checklists daily.

- Adjusts paint lap according to procedure.

- Maintains paint booth including replacing plastic and changing out paint totes as needed.

- Adjusts and monitors preheater to preheat pipe to appropriate temperature for coating.

- Applies Rust Preventative Material to meet customer specification.

- Maintains and troubleshoots polyurethane machine and AP Spray Gun.

- Understands and verifies the complete delivery system for Poly Coat process.

- Certified ID Lining Coating Application.

- Fully assemble AP Spray Gun.

- Certifies on all Machine Coating and Manual Coating Applications.

- Certifies to and operates Kamatsu to clean paint pad.

- Certified Manlift operator.

- Maintains housekeeping for Painting area and assists with department area.

- Other duties as assigned by management.

Minimum Qualifications

- High school diploma or GED plus a minimum of three years of related experience to include industrial type painting. Proficiency with technical machinery.

- Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, read and understand pipe drawings, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively with supervisors and other employees.

- Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to accurately read tape measure.

- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

- Knowledgeable of Microsoft Programs. Ability to use company computer systems to view and understand the action required from the dispatch list.

- Ability to attain multiple Company Certifications.

- Ability to read, write and effectively communicate in English. Ability to read, understand and interpret blueprints and specification boundary sheets.

- Conscientious with great attention to detail. Willingness to learn new concepts, skills, and processes.

Essential Physical Functions

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 lbs. Specific vision abilities required by this job include distance vision, peripheral vision and ability to adjust focus

Work Environment

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts. The employee is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions and fumes or airborne particles. The employee is occasionally exposed to paint that contains isocyanates, and outside weather conditions. The work is done both indoors and out. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud. It involves much standing, bending, climbing, crawling and working with arms over the head.