Spray Painter

About Us
Come work for Australia’s award winning, longest trading, and one of the largest signage companies in Australia. We design, manufacture, install and service all signage for the nation’s large retailers, corporations, builders, and events.

We set the benchmark in customer experience excellence in our industry and are driven by a team culture; valuing and recognising employees who contribute to measurable and sustainable growth of the business.

The Role
An exciting opportunity is available at our workplace for an experienced Spray Painter. This position will be responsible for a diverse range of duties, including quality assurance, industrial spray painting and be involved in the process of making signs.

You will be responsible for:
- Preparing parts and assemblies for painting
- Mix paint and other materials according to specification or formula
- Ensure facility and spray-painting equipment are in good working condition
- Monitor machine gauges and equipment operation to discover defects/deviations from standards, and make necessary adjustments
- Identify and separate non-conforming parts or materials and report them to Team Leader
- Utilize spray gun and apply paint in conformance with all specifications
- Employ heat or oven paint drying techniques for special purpose finishes
- Follow company requirements to select paint, and match colours of paint following specified colour charts
- Maintain stock levels of all items required for the completion of duties and minor maintenance.
- Manage OH&S and environmental hazards in the paint bay and workplace
- To Paint (and do some assembly of) signs according to instruction set by the Production Management team and the Job sheet, as and when required.
- To be actively involved in Housekeeping and Spray of basic contact adhesives
- Use of basic hand tools
- Associated tasks including helping elsewhere in the factory

We are looking for some with the following attributes:
- Minimum 4 years' experience in spray painting
- Prior experience in Signage industry will be an added advantage
- Trade qualification in spray painting
- Eye for detail and quality
- Ability to learn new systems
- Forklift Licence is desirable
- Great team player, who understands the impact of poor quality, rework & missing the deadlines will have on other work stations.
- Work under direct supervision either individually or in a team

To be successful in this role you must:
- Adhere to all health and safety guidelines
- Be punctual in all aspects
- Act with integrity, honesty and professionalism
- High level of attention to detail
- Hands on approach