Manufacturing Paint Technician

Job Title: Manufacturing Paint Technician

Internal Title: Finisher C

Location: San Leandro, CA

Shift: 5:00am-2:30pm PST

9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off.

Primary Function:

Responsible for the painting of airborne antenna systems, composite radomes, metal parts and related hardware. This will include preparing, priming and spray painting materials in a controlled environment using a spray gun and spray booth.

• Spray paint metal, composite and plastic structures in a controlled environment.
• Mix paints and primers to manufactures specifications.
• Masks surfaces per drawing requirements.
• Prepares surfaces per documentation, includes sanding, cleaning and media blasting as required.
• Cleans spray equipment and maintains paint booth and curing ovens.
• Performs in-process inspection, documents results, maintains records, and prepares reports.
• Maintain full compliance with respect to all EH&S and safety requirements.

Major Responsibilities:

• Performs highly complex paint, masking & curing tasks, with various industrial coatings, oven-curing, and finish work.
• Spray paint assemblies, subassemblies and parts.
• Works with epoxies, resins, and other chemical compounds, mixing according to specified formulas.
• Checks tolerances to ensure that fabricated parts meet drawing requirements.
• Performs routine testing, such as pressure testing, resistance testing, and torque testing & paint thicknesses .
• Maintain 6S Compliant work area.
• Performs limited, intermittent physical exertion. Work environment may contain noise, dust, heat, or chemicals.
• Competent using hand inspection tools i.e., Calipers & Micrometers.

Education/Experience/Training:

• Requires a high school diploma and/or a minimum of six years of industrial painting experience.
• Requires math aptitude, the ability to read operation sheets and highly complex blueprints, formulas and scales, and use a variety of sanding and grit blasting tools.
• Ability to mix and apply mil-spec paints as required by job.
• Must currently have Security Clearance or the ability to obtain a future Security Clearance is required for the role. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

Additional Requirements:

• Flexible to work varied shifts, overtime, weekends and travel on occasion.
• Able to occasionally stoop, bend, kneel, and squat.
• Able to occasionally push, and reach.
• Able to lift 50 pounds close to the body repetitively. (Employees need to ask for assistance and use material handling tools for lesser weight in awkward location and/or body positions and for any items over 50 pounds).
• Must have good repetitive manual dexterity with both hands.
• Must have sufficient vision to see relative positions of small parts and able to discern symmetry and proper alignment.
• Based upon your job duties, and need to visit different areas within the company, you may be exposed to; fumes, dust, toxic or caustic chemicals (well below OSHA and ACGIH exposure guidelines), outdoor weather, moving mechanical parts and/or be part of a hearing conservation program due to noise levels around certain equipment.
• Must be able to pass a respirator medical physical. May not have facial hair and be clean shaven per California and Federal OSHA requirements to ensure a proper fit of respiratory protection.
• Must wear appropriate personal protective equipment as necessary.
• Ability to sit for extended periods of time.