Aircraft Painter

Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 40 to 42 hours per week
- Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
- Experience: 7 months to less than 1 year
**Work site environment**:

- At heights
- Confined spaces
- Dusty
- Hot
- Noisy
- Odours
**Tasks**:

- Check proper thickness of plating using micrometers, callipers or other devices
- Clean and maintain equipment
- Operate and control: electroplating equipment to coat metal, hot-dip metal plating equipment to galvanize metal and/or spray equipment to build up worn or damaged parts
- Prepare and mix metallizing solutions according to formulas or specifications
- Select appropriate paint or mix paints
- Tend automatic metal coating machines which convey objects through a series of cleaning, rinsing and plating solutions
- Tend or operate equipment to spray or coat
**Type of product**:

- Aircraft or motor vehicles
**Surface preparation methods**:

- Abrasive disc wheel
- Abrasive head blasting
- Chemical techniques
- Etching
- Flame cleaning
- Masking
- Removing old coatings manually
- Sandblasters
- Steam cleaning
- Water blasting
**Type of paints or coatings**:

- Anti-fouling paints
- Bituminous coatings
- Catalyzed or polymerized paints
- Drying oils paint
- Fire retardant coatings
- Fluorescent coatings
- Gildings
- Inhibiting coatings
- Metallized coatings
- Oil-based or emulsion paints
- Resinous, solvent drying paints
**Application methods**:

- Airless gravity pump
- Automated spray painting
- Brush or pencil
- Electrostatic method
- Hand-held spray guns
**Type of industry experience**:

- Automobile and Trucking industry
- Aviation and Aerospace industry
- Marine industry
- Rail industry
**Security and safety**:

- Criminal record check
**Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Attention to detail
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Fast-paced environment
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Handling heavy loads
- Manual dexterity
- Physically demanding
- Repetitive tasks
- Standing for extended periods
**Personal suitability**:

- Flexibility
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player