Industrial Painter

Job Description

Job Description

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 :

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.