Gunite - Painter III, Lead B

Build Your Future at NWPX
At NWPX Infrastructure, we manufacture welded steel pipe and precast products that form the backbone of America’s water infrastructure. It’s work you can be proud of—and an opportunity to advance your career with a company committed to your professional growth and well-being.
Our brands—Northwest Pipe Company, NWPX Park, and NWPX Geneva—set the standard for safety, quality, innovation, and performance. Guided by our core values of Accountability, Commitment, and Teamwork, our people work collaboratively to deliver reliable products and trusted service to our customers—while building stable, rewarding careers along the way.
For over 50 years, NWPX has been a leader in reliable water infrastructure solutions, and our people are the foundation of our success. Build your future with us and be part of a legacy grounded in water.

WHAT NWPX OFFERS YOU:

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, AD&D Insurance
• Paid Vacation, Holidays, and Sick Time
• 401k Retirement Savings Plan with Employer Match
• Bonus Potential
• Up to $5,000 per year Tuition Reimbursement
• Safety Footwear and Eyewear Voucher (Day 1 of Employment)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Opportunities for Career Advancement
• Values-Driven Culture Committed to Equal Opportunities and Safety

SUMMARY OF JOB PURPOSE:
Painter applies specialized protective and aesthetic coatings, typically two-part epoxies, urethane, enamel, and primer paint to protect and finish manufactured products and parts. Key responsibilities include meticulous surface preparation (Pneumatic media blasting, cleaning, sanding, patching), skilled application using brushes, rollers, plural, airless and pneumatic sprayers, proper mixing and handling of materials, strict adherence to safety protocols, and maintaining equipment and work areas clean and organized. This role demands precision, an understanding of industrial coating, and the ability to work independently or as part of a team to ensure high-quality, long-lasting finishes.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Safety & PPE: Comply with all Northwest Pipe Company WTG and HSE policies and procedures. Be familiar with SDS and PDS.
• Surface Preparation: Cleaning, grinding, sanding, scraping, masking and media blasting prepare surfaces for epoxy, urethane, or primer application.
• Material Mixing: Accurately mixing and proportioning two-part epoxy, urethane, and primer coatings according to manufacturer instructions and specifications.
• Application: Applying epoxy and other industrial coatings using various tools, including brushes, rollers, and spray equipment, to achieve a consistent, quality finish that meets project specifications.
• Equipment operation and maintenance: Set up, operate, and maintain a variety of painting equipment, including airless, conventional, and plural spray systems. Maintain all equipment and work area thoroughly clean after each use. Complete routine preventative maintenance to equipment as necessary.
• Quality Control: Inspect finished surfaces for defects like runs, drips, or insufficient mil thickness, and perform necessary touch-ups to meet quality standards. Complete and maintain all required paperwork as necessary.
• Teamwork and Coordination: The ability to work effectively as part of a crew and follow instructions from a Lead or Supervisor. Communicating with supervisors, inspectors, and team members to understand project requirements and timelines. Participate in all inventories, safety meetings and ISO audits.

SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Assist in other tasks in the department, such as capping, stulling and rounding up pipe.
• Maintain housekeeping within all production, storage and waste areas.
• Performs other duties assigned by the lead or department supervisor.
• Comply with lean Manufacturing Responsibilities & Objectives
• Comply with Environmental Standards & Regulations
• Other task may be assigned as needed

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES:

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

• Ability to ready, analyze, and interpret product data sheets, manufacturer specifications, and shop detail sheets.
• Ability to complete reports and read and understand procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the public.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

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

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

• High school diploma or equivalent preferred.
• One-year-related experience and/or training/or equivalent combination of education and experience in painting.

PAINTER I – this level of Painter is responsible for performing quality paint application and requires little or minimum experience. Individuals in this position operate, work with and around various large machinery and chemicals, so ample care and adherence to safety training is necessary. Duties are routinely carried out under close supervision; however, supervision is not always available for routine and repetitive tasks, which can be carried on without difficulty once they are learned. As work experience is gained, the employee may be assigned to tasks that are more difficult in nature and require more responsibility.

PAINTER II – this level of Painter is responsible for performing duties described for a Painter I. This level of Painter requires additional training, skills and experience. Work normally is performed under limited to close supervision. As additional experience is gained, the employee may be assigned to tasks that are more difficult in nature and require more responsibility. Employees in this position may be responsible for providing on-the-job training to new employees. Employee must know and understand Product safety sheets/Safety product sheet.

PAINTER III – this level of Painter is responsible for performing duties described for a Painter II. This level of Painter possesses advanced qualifications and experience. Work normally is performed under minimal supervision. Employees in this position will be responsible for providing on-the-job training to new employees. Employees in this position may be responsible for providing on-the-job training to new employees. Employee must know and understand Product safety sheets/Safety product sheet.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS:

• This job requires no licenses or certificates.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS/WORK ENVIRONMENT:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Project timelines and work volume / deadlines may often require working outside of standard office hours, weekend, or evening work.
Regular, reliable and predictable attendance is necessary in order to perform the essential functions of this position.

Physical Activity:Up to 2/3 of the time:

• Standing: Remaining upright in a stationary position, particularly for sustained periods.
• Walking: Moving about to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site another.
• Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward downward or outward.
• Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw drag haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
• Lifting: Raising object from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from
• Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm to hammers grinders welding lead.
• Repetitive motions: Making substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and /or fingers such as grinding.

Less than 1/3 of the time:

• Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized.
• Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing or crouching on narrow, slippery or erratically moving surfaces.
• Stooping: Positions self to checking pipe, this factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the full use of the lower extremities and back muscles.
• Kneeling/Crouching: Position self to checking pipe.
• Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with whole hand or arm as in handling to holding stud stamps.
• Feeling Perceiving attributes of objects such as size shape temperature or texture by touching with skin particularly that of fingertips.
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately loudly or quickly
• Communicating: Expressing or exchanging ideas and information accurately, in written or diagram form.
• Hearing: perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correct, having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and making fine discriminations in sounds.

Physical Requirements:
Medium work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and /or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
Visual Acuity
The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as preparing and analyzing data and figures transcribing viewing a computer terminal extensive reading visual inspection involving small defects small parts and /or operation of machines (including inspection) using measurement devices and /or assembly or fabrication of parts at distances close to the eyes.

Vision Requirements:Up to 2/3 of time, the worker is required to have:

• The worker is required to have close vision (clear vision at 20 inches or less)
• The worker is required to have color vision (ability to identify and distinguish color)
• The worker is required to have peripheral vision (ability to observe an area that can be seen up and down or to the left and right while eyes are fixed on a given point)
• The worker is required to have depth perception (three-dimensional vision, ability to judge distances and spatial relationships)

Less than 1/3 of the time

• The worker is required to have distance vision (clear vision at 20 feet or more)
• The worker will not be required to have any special vision.

Weather Conditions

Over 2/3 of the time:

• The worker is subject to vibration: Exposure to oscillating movements to the extremities or whole body.

Up to 2/3 of the time:

• The worker is subject to inside environmental conditions: Protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes.
• The worker is subject to extreme heat: Temperatures above 100 degrees for periods of more than one hour. Consideration should be given to the effect of other environmental conditions such as wind and humidity.
• The worker is subject to noise: There is sufficient noise to cause the worker to shout in order to be heard above the ambient noise level.
• The worker is subject to hazards: Includes a variety of physical conditions such as proximity to moving mechanical parts moving vehicles electrical current working on scaffolding and high places exposure to high heat or exposure to chemical.
• The worker is subject to atmospheric conditions: One or more of the following conditions that affects the respiratory system of the skin: Fumes odors, dusts mists gases or poor ventilation.

Less than 1/3 of the time:

• The worker is subject to both environment conditions: activities occur inside and outside.
• The worker is subject to extreme cold: Temperatures typically below 32 degrees for periods of more than one hour (Consideration should be given to the effect of other environmental conditions such as wind and humidity.)
• The worker frequently is in close quarters crawl spaces, shafts manholes small enclosed rooms, small sewage and water line pipes, and other areas which could cause claustrophobia.

Noise Levels

Over 2/3 of the time:

• Loud noise (example: large earth-moving equipment)
• Very loud noise (example: jack hammer work, front row at rock concert)

Less than 1/3 of the time:

• Very quiet conditions (example: forest trail, isolation booth for hearing test)
• Quiet conditions (example: library, private office)
• Moderate noise (example: business office with computers and printers, light traffic)

Noise Levels:
Up to 2/3 of the time:

• Loud noise (examples: metal can manufacture department, large earth-moving equipment)

Less than 1/3 of the time:

• Very loud noise (examples: jack hammer work, front row at rock concert)

Supervision Received:
Close Supervision: The incumbent is assigned duties according to specified procedures and receives detailed instructions. Work is checked frequently.

Personal Protective Equipment is required when in the Plant, Yard or Construction Areas:

• Hard Hat
• Safety Glasses
• Steel-toed Boots
• Hearing Protection
• Reflective Vest

Full list of anticipated physical demands for this position and detail on our work environment are below. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Except where prohibited by state law, offers of employment may be contingent upon the successful completion of a background check, drug test, and/or physical examination, as determined by the essential functions and physical requirements of the position.
NWPX Infrastructure is committed to equal employment opportunity. Veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
NWPX Infrastructure reserves the right to close the position, with or without notice, if a qualified candidate is identified prior to the close date.

Salary : $5,000