Description

• Prepares surfaces for painting: cleaning and masking.
• Interaction/communication with others: Communicates with others on site to ensure safety/coordinate work efforts.
• Operation of equipment/tools/vehicles: Uses hoses, high-lift, shovel, ladder, scaffolding, high pressure water wash, 100 to 600 pound pressure pots, hydro pumps, brushes, rollers, 1-1/4 inch blast hose, blast nozzle, air fed respirators/blast hoods, forklift, sandblast hoppers, vacuum units, D.H. (full face respirator) units, and air mixers (drill motors).
• Complies with craft and shipyard safety and environmental measures
• Tends paint pot and paint equipment.
• Maintains painting equipment: hoses, pumps, pressure tanks, spray guns and tips.
• Maintains sandblasting equipment: hoses, nozzles, and gaskets: electric and air.

Requirements

• Painter must lower/raise 5-gallon bucket of paint in/out of area of need. Requires upper body forces up to (55 lbs.), up to (20/hr.).
• Painter must access tanks, bilge areas. Must access spaces with specific entries (15”) x (21”).
• Painter must operate sandblasting gun, power tools such as deck grinder, needle gun requiring coupling forces up to (20 lbs.), up to (15/hr.).
• Painter must tolerate working environment with outside temperatures.
• Painter requires (near/far/depth/color) vision to perform painting and sandblasting duties.
• Safety equipment required: Wears hard hat, respirator, gloves, hearing protection, fall restraint and eye protection. Must wear long sleeved clothing and leather boots with steel safety toes.
• High School diploma or GED preferred.
• Proper cares and safely uses of hand and power tools and all company property.
• Painter must access sandblasting/paint booths, shops, vessels, work locations. Requires walking up to (3.0 mi.), in (8 hr.).
• Four-hour fire watch certification must be obtained within 30 days of hire
• Two-hour course in pot tending safety
• Painter must layout dry dock electrical blast hoses, bull air lines. Must horizontally transfer dry dock electrical blast hoses, bull air lines requiring a force up to (80 lbs.), up to (1/hr.), a distance up to (150 ft.).
• Painter must access work locations; works off JLG, scaffolding. Must tolerate heights up to (100 ft.).
• Repetitive work: Work consists of performing similar painting related tasks throughout the day.
• Painter must access tanks, scaffolding, job locations. Requires climbing ladder up to 100 rungs/hr. in (8 hr.).
• Painter must transfer 5-gallon bucket of AF paint to/from area of need. Requires vertically/horizontally transferring 5-gallon bucket of AF paint weighing up to (95 lbs.) from (18”) to (36”), up to (10/hr.), a distance of up to (20 feet) without mechanical assistance.
• HAZWOPER- First Responder Awareness Level
• Painter must transfer 2-gallon bucket of paint to/from area of need. Requires vertically/horizontally transferring 2-gallon bucket of paint weighing up to (30 lbs.) from (12”) to (60”), up to (2/hr.), a distance of up to (40 feet) without mechanical assistance.
• Painter must prepare, mask off surfaces for painting. Requires repetitive assumption of posture to access a point (1 inches) from the floor up to (60/hr.).
• Ability to do basic math, i.e. add, subtract, divide and multiply.
• Painter must transfer tools (deck scaler, scaling hammer, needle gun) to/from area of need. Requires vertically transferring tools (deck scaler, scaling hammer, needle gun) weighing up to (15 lbs.) from (4”) to (76”), up to 20/hr.).
• Attention to detail: Surface preparation and color choices must be accurate.
• Painter must transfer 5-gallon bucket of paint to/from area of need. Requires vertically/horizontally transferring 5-gallon bucket of paint weighing up to (55 lbs.) from (18”) to (36”), up to (10/hr.), a distance of up to (20 feet) without mechanical assistance.
• Successfully completes sustained work at various heights, including but not limited to, 100 feet.
• Painter must stand to perform painting and sandblasting duties. Requires tolerance of standing posture up to (2 hr.) continuously, for a total of up to (7 hr.) per (8 hr.).
• HighLift certification
• Two years industrial painting and/or blasting work experience.
• Shipyard terminology and shipboard familiarity.
• Communicates effectively independently or in a group.
• Ability to read, write, speak, and comprehend English.
• Proper care and use of respirators and identification of type required for operation.
• Painter must access vessels, job locations. Requires climbing stairs up to 100 steps/hr. in (8 hr.).
• Painter must tolerate working environment with inside ambient temperatures.
• Proven skills, work history and/or applicable education will be considered in lieu of work experience.
• Painter must access double bottom, bilge areas. Must work in spaces with limited headroom of (36 in.).

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance