Painter

The Painter is responsible for making paint repairs and adjustments to small and large areas of heavy equipment, aerial equipment, and other various painting projects.

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

• Clean machines, prepare for painting, paint and decal equipment, components, or parts.
• Load and unload equipment, components, or parts.
• Transport equipment, components, or parts around the facility.
• Maintain painting related tooling.
• Perform all tasks in a manner that ensures customer satisfaction and prompt invoicing and payment for work performed.
• Take proper care of all company owned assets and keeps work area clean and orderly.
• Perform all of the above functions in a safe, efficient, and professional manner.
• Cover surfaces with drop cloths or masking tape and paper to protect surfaces during painting
• Select and mix coating additives to thin or promote drying and adhesion
• Fill cracks, holes, and joints with caulk, putty, plaster or other fillers, using caulking guns or putty knives
• Uses high air-pressure sandblasting equipment, chemical application, chipping hammer, power tools and other abrasives to remove rust, grease, dirt, concrete, and old paint prior to paint application
• Apply primers or sealers to prepare surfaces, such as bare wood, metal, piping, fixtures, structures and equipment for finish coats
• Apply paint, stain, varnish, enamel, and other finishes to heavy equipment, buildings, and/or other structures using brushes, spray guns, sandblasting equipment, or rollers
• Calculate amounts of required materials and estimate costs, based on surface measurements and/or work orders
• Erect scaffolding and swing gates, or set up ladders, to work above ground level safely
• Mix and match colors of paint, stain, or varnish with oil and thinning and drying additives in order to obtain desired colors and consistencies
• Prepare glass for application of window tinting and install tinting materials as well as apply associated decals
• Other duties as required in support of Riggs customers and business operations.

WHAT WILL YOU NEED TO DO THE JOB?

• Requires general knowledge of heavy equipment operation.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to climb or balance. The employee is occasionally required to sit or smell. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. The employee is routinely lifting up to 20 pounds and occasionally lifting up to 50 pounds.

The employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts and toxic or caustic chemicals. The employee is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions; extreme cold and extreme heat. The employee is occasionally exposed to risk of electrical shock and vibration.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Required travel up to 10%.

The Job description is subject to change by the employer as the needs of the employer and requirements of the job change.

EEO/AA

Non-Exempt

This is a safety sensitive position.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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