Industrial Painter

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

**Industrial Painter & Paint Booth Leader**

**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