Working Conditions:

Employees are required to do hard work every single day. The production floor can be a hot working environment . Heavy Lifting is required on a regular basis. A culture that promotes serving others , anticipating needs , ensuring excellence and investing in relationships . We need talented people with a strong work ethic : Do you improve on your supervisor's standards and continuously upgrade and fine-tune them? Are you a self-starter that performs consistently at a level above our standard without being prompted to do so? Do you manage your own job responsibilities and make things happen? Do you have a good vision of the job and never have to be reminded to cover your basic responsibilities? Are you emotionally signed up for the job? Are you an achiever and work at 120% plus? If so, you are a Peak Performer and we want to talk to you about a career at Valley Rubber.

Job Goal:

A painter is responsible for applying paint, varnishes, and similar coatings to materials such as metals.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Select appropriate coatings, paints, or sprays, or prepare them by mixing substances according to formulas. Hold or position spray guns to direct spray onto articles. Fill hoppers, reservoirs, troughs, or pans with material used to coat, paint, or spray, using conveyors or pail. Assist and converse with Fabrication Department to allow for proper job planning, staging of steel, production time, etc. Determine paint flow, viscosity, and coating quality by performing visual inspections, or by using viscometers. Follow proper handling protocol of all metals to be painted and storing protocol for steel. Set-up and maintain work areas and operate painting equipment in accordance to safety procedures. Record and report working hours and material usage. Maintain clean work areas, tool repair, and equipment inventory. Inspect paint jobs and materials, adjusting colors and fixing defects

Qualifications and Requirements:

Knowledge of basic computer skills. Ability to wear personal protective equipment while in the plant required. Effective communication skills required. Attention to detail required.

Working Conditions:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear.

This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing all day. The employee must frequently lift and/or move items over 75 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Painters must have the ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions and to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness. They must have the ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position and to quickly move their hand, their hand together with their arm, or their two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work:

This is a full-time position. Must be available for overtime and work weekends when necessary.