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The Paint Department currently hiring for 3 positions:
- Paint Technician 1
- Paint Technician 2

The position for each candidate will be based on skills, knowledge, experience, and business needs.


The Paint Shop is responsible for ensuring corrosion protection and topcoat application to the body. The Body is cleaned, conditioned, and coated for protection. A primer coating is applied to create consistency in the surface prior to paint and t opcoat is applied robotically to complete the final appearance of the body. Seams of PVC sealant and cavity wax are applied for additional rust protection.

Essential Job Functions may include:
- Retrieve and provide material, workpieces, tools, work documents, device parts, auxiliary materials, etc. according to the specified min/max stock. Arrange for disposal/treatment
- Prepare the workplace for manual activities ensuring that the area is clean, organized and up to 5S standards
- Prep cars and car bodies for paint process
- Mask/unmask parts and car bodies and areas to be coated
- Spray wax for cavity preservation
- Perform visual inspection for completeness and proper execution of standard and record defects into the quality reporting system
- Seal interior and exterior seams
- Spray or lay out PVC protection and sika, taking into account the required surface quality on the visible parts of the shell
- Fix minor issues with paint tools/equipment (such as through filter cleaning, changing of nozzles)
- Monitor and control coating/painting processes
- Set order sequence
- Analyze end-of-process items, and adjust the coating process accordingly
- Monitor production flow and buffer levels
- Coordinate with upstream/downstream areas
- Propose corrective measures for bottleneck situations, and coordinate with the foreman if necessary
- Accumulate manufacturing data and evaluate
- Analyze system errors, if necessary by the use of diagnostic systems. Identify vulnerabilities in advance
- Develop and implement corrective measures
- Carry out spot repairs (partial surface repair/coating)
- Adhering to painting standards, inspect, detect, classify, determine corrective measures and fix localized damage and defects outside of the normal painting process
- Act as the final coatings/paint quality point, and conduct repair work so the product will be released to the customer
- Refinish seam seals for finished painted vehicles
- Participate in the Continuous Improvement Program