Automotive Paint Specialist

Description Acara Solutions is seeking highly qualified candidates to work onsite with our customer in Menlo Park, CA If intrested please contact me at Here's what you will get : Pay rate : $30 Hourly Duration : Temporary Shift : Mon-Fri, 5am-2 : 30pm on a 9 / 80 schedule Job Description 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. Major functions :

• 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

Technical / Functional Skills :

• 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 result, maintains records, and prepares reports.
• Maintain full compliance with respect to all EH&S and safety requirements.

Job Requirements Required Skills / Qualifications :

• Requires a high school diploma and / or a minimum of three to five years of industrial painting experience.
• Also 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.

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).
30+ days ago