Industrial Paint Technician-Night

NWPX Infrastructure•Saginaw, TX

12d•Onsite

About The Position

Inspects, prepares, and moves pipe for paint patch operations. Operates paint, tape, and sandblasting machines safely and efficiently to create a quality product. Under ongoing supervision, applies paint patch, loads and unloads pipe, mixes paint materials, grinds product, and modifies product as required by the facility. 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 and additional welding certifications are obtained, the employee may be assigned to tasks that are more difficult in nature and require more responsibility.

Requirements

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the public.
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
High School degree or GED or equivalent or six months to one year related experience and/or training/or equivalent combination of education and experience.
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.
Frequently required to climb or balance.
Occasionally required to sit.
Must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
Regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts.
Frequently exposed to high, precarious places and outside weather conditions.
Requires wearing a respirator.
Frequently in close quarters, crawl spaces, shafts, manholes, small enclosed rooms, small sewage and water line pipes, and other areas which could cause claustrophobia.
Required to function in narrow aisles or passageways.
Exposed to infectious diseases.
Requires Hard Hat, Safety Glasses, Steel-toed Boots, Hearing Protection, Reflective Vest.

Nice To Haves

As work experience is gained and additional welding certification are obtained, the employee may be assigned to tasks that are more difficult in nature and require more responsibility.
Painter I: responsible for performing quality paint application, and requires little or minimum experience.
Painter II: requires additional training, skills and experience.
Painter III: possesses advanced qualifications and experience. Employees in this position may be responsible for providing on-the-job training to new employees.

Responsibilities

Helps load, unload, and move product, materials, and equipment safely and efficiently on or off vehicles.
Prepares vehicles and equipment for loads.
Mixes cement and prepares material for patchwork.
Performs cement labor as needed by lead person and supervisor.
Cuts materials in a safe manner to ensure safe transport of product and equipment.
Counts and marks all materials.
Loads and unloads product in the paint and tape machine area.
Assists in diagnosing problems associated with the patching, taping, and painting of product.
Inspects and maintains paint and sandblasting machine to ensure production of quality products.
Inventories and maintains supplies.
Loads paint product on paint machine in a safe manner.
Operates poly paint machine in a safe manner.
Operates forklift and other product handling equipment.
Follows ISO procedures.
Ensures pipe is cleaned prior to entering the paint machine area.
Other duties may be assigned.