Industrial Painter / Paint Booth leader

Southwestern Manufacturing Inc. operates in a competitive global market producing wide ranging metal-based assemblies and components across a variety of industry sectors including but not limited to Mining, Oil & Gas, Crane, and Drag-line Components, Agricultural, Machine building, and Heavy Equipment Manufacturing.

We are looking for 1 permanent Industrial Painter/ Paint Booth Leader to join our team immediately. The successful candidate will have 5 years of relevant experience.

We offer competitive wages, a comprehensive benefits package and the opportunity for career advancement.

Industrial Painter & Paint Booth Leader

The paint booth leader supervises and coordinates all levels of painters and assists in the training of journey level and entry level painters with a hands-on approach. The candidate coordinates the daily lineup with the Operations Manager and ensures jobs are completed by the deadline and to the standards required.

Duties include:

- Ensure maintenance and paint booth cleaning procedures are followed as needed and develop new procedures for ensuring a safe and clean environment.

- Perform industrial painting, alongside the other members of the painting team, demonstrating proper techniques and strict adherence to quality standards.

- Coordinate with management and purchasing in the estimation of products needed to ensure an appropriate volume of products required for planned & future work is attained and organized per customer name or job number.

- Train new team members as needed.

- Maintain equipment, ensuring all safety protocols are followed.

- Monitor staff adherence to safe workplace practices, including risk management issues such as workplace injury follow-up, universal precautions, and emergency procedures.

Job Requirements/ Qualifications:

- A minimum of five years experience as an Industrial Painter, with a proven track record of leading teams and projects.

- Experience in leadership is a requirement.

- Strong understanding of proper painting products, specifications, techniques, and procedures required.

- Perform as part of an effective team, inspecting work to ensure quality standards are being met.

- Strong knowledge of safety protocols, regulations, and proper housekeeping/ storage for product inventory.

- Strong understanding of cures for design, fabrication defects, and hard to reach areas with regards to surface preparation, and coatings.

- Assure compressed air equipment can provide required supply of clean, dry compressed air for nozzle blasting. Visually check for surface contaminants, check abrasive media for size/shape and cleanliness.

- Visually check blasted surfaces for specified level of cleanliness and profile.

- Verify document batch numbers & coating color required per paint report.

- Check the mixing process, ensure adherence to proper induction time. Ensure pot life is not exceeded.

- Check instrument calibration reports.

- Excellent leadership skills.

- Ability to work to tight deadlines.

- Excellent communication skills.

- Ability to coordinate lineups and team members effectively and efficiently.

- Prior experience operating a lift truck and overhead crane.

- Overtime work will be required when necessary, including weekends.

- Wage is based on Experience.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: From $26.00 per hour

Benefits:

- Company pension

- Dental care

- Extended health care

- Vision care

Experience:

- industrial painting: 5 years (required)

Work Location: In person