Painter Blaster

FAST Global Solutions Inc • Auburn, NE

1d • Onsite

About The Position

FAST Global Solutions is seeking a Painter Blaster for our night shift at our Auburn, Nebraska location. The night shift hours are 4:30 pm - 3:00 am, Monday - Thursday. This role involves abrading surfaces of parts by sand blasting to remove adhering scale, paint, grease, tar, rust and dirt. The Painter Blaster will also operate cone, disk, or nozzle type electrostatic painting equipment within designated paint booths and perform other miscellaneous tasks as supervision deems necessary. At Fast Global Solutions, our core values are to KNOW & SERVE OUR CUSTOMERS, BUILD TRUST, FIND A BETTER WAY and have GRIT. Our purpose is to deliver winning solutions to help our customers, communities and employees thrive. For over 40 years, FAST Global Solutions has been helping improve operational performance in the air transportation and material handling industries, with smartly designed and ruggedly built equipment. Founded in 1979 as Watkins Aircraft Support Products (WASP), the company’s focus on unparalleled quality and critical safety engineering of non-powered ground support equipment, resulted in exponential growth—doubling in capacity every year for the first decade.

Requirements

• Operates cone, disk, or nozzle type electrostatic painting equipment within designated paint booths.

Responsibilities

• Shovels or pours abrasives such as sand, grit, or shot of specified grade into machine hopper.
• Masks specified areas of object to protect from abrading action.
• Loads parts on racks in enclosed rooms, into tumbling barrels, or into cabinets.
• Regulates pressure and composition of abrasive mixture flowing through nozzle or into tumbling barrel.
• Starts equipment that directs blast or flow of abrasive laden compressed air, gas, or liquid over surface of parts.
• Directs nozzle over surface of large parts or inserts arms through glove fitted cabinet openings and manipulates small parts under nozzle for specified interval.
• Examines finished parts to ensure conformance to specifications.
• Adjusts valves and observes gauges to set pressure and to control flow of paint to each spray station.
• Inspects painted units for runs, sags, and unpainted areas.
• Readjusts pressure valves to control direction and pattern of spray and to correct flaws in coating.
• Cleans paint from ceiling and walls of booth, conveyor hooks or grid, and from disks, cones, spray heads, and hoses.
• Hand sprays parts to cover unpainted areas or apply rust preventative.
• Mixes paint according to specifications with viscometer to regulate consistency.

Benefits

• Eligibility for benefits (medical, dental, vision) effective on your FIRST DAY OF WORK
• Outstanding financial benefits such as 401(k), life insurance, long-term disability, and employee stock ownership retirement plan with generous employer contribution
• Paid Time Off (PTO) benefits and paid company holidays
• Annual company logo clothing/merchandise

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed