Painter

INNOVANCE INC.,

Innovance is the holding company for a family of five, 100% employee-owned, Minnesota-based manufacturing companies (Lou-Rich, ALMCO, Panels Plus, Mass Finishing, Jorgensen). Our mission is to lead, nurture, and grow a team of industrial manufacturing companies committed to making our OEM customers products better.

ABOUT ALMCO

ALMCO has been in business for over 75 years manufacturing quality industrial parts washers, industrial deburring, polishing, and tumbling equipment. Leading companies in automotive, aerospace, medical, ammunition, construction, fasteners, and many other industries trust ALMCO for high-quality equipment, media, and ongoing service.

POSITION DESCRIPTION:

Spray paints a wide variety of parts with lacquers, enamel, and undercoats to produce flat, gloss, semi-gloss, wrinkle, and suede finishes. Performs work of appreciable difficulty, where areas are not easily accessible due to unusual contours and irregular shapes, as well as several raised or depressed surfaces. Performs visual inspection of all material prior to painting. Thins and strains paints to required consistencies and viscosities to produce specified finishes. Checks quality of paints and thinners. May operate baking oven and monitors temperatures and bake cycle times. Performs miscellaneous related assignments, such as masking, packaging, etc. Cleans and maintains paint room.

Classification:

Ordinary brush or spray operations, involving prime or finish coat painting of manufactured products requiring neat, ordinary finishes. Mix paint products as required. May include hand or conveyer painting.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Prepares surfaces for painting, texturing, and covering by sanding, scraping, washing, and brushing to remove old paint, rust, scales, and irregular surfaces.

Mix paints by adding thinners as necessary to achieve proper consistency.

Maintains and services painting equipment and hand and power tools.

Contributes to the efficiency and effectiveness of its customers by offering suggestions and directing or participating as an active member of a team.

Establish and maintain effective working relationships with those encountered in the course of the work.

Work with exposure to potentially hazardous paints and coating materials.

A respirator fit test and examination may be required.

OTHER DUTIES

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

QUALIFICATIONS:

The painter is required to be on their feet for up to twelve hours using their hands to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear around machinery. They will also be required to frequently walk, stoop, kneel or crouch.

The painter must be capable of lifting and moving up to 15 pounds; frequently lift and move up to 50 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus on optical devices. Should be able to distinguish between colors for purposes of noticing colors on parts

Individuals will work near moving mechanical parts of machinery and electrically activated devices.

Individuals are occasionally exposed to airborne particles.

Perform math skills of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division

Knowledge of decimals, fractions, and metric/English conversions

Participate in continuous improvement activities that result in reducing variation and waste in the manufacturing process

Using a specified training format, work closely in training new painters

Overtime is typically voluntary. However, during busy production periods overtime will be required.

Other duties as assigned

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands or fingers and talk and hear.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those and 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.

AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT:

If you are a qualified individual with a disability, you have a right to request that the Authority make reasonable accommodations in order to help you accomplish your work, which must still be performed in all essential functions.