Aircraft Painter

Aircraft Painter Hourly: $22 - $25/hr Location: Greenville, SC Shift: 1st Shift, M-TH 6am-4:30pm Industry: Government/Defense Employment Type: Long-term contract with potential for permanent employment Qualifications: High school diploma with 2 years of relevant experience. Experience with media blast hoppers, high-powered pressure sprayers, and other related paint shop equipment. Paint shop process experience. Ability to handle strenuous activities. Responsibilities: Using Plastic Media to strip military aircraft to prepare for maintenance, and prep surfaces for repaint. Will load the media blast hopper, use high powered pressure sprayers to Plastic media blast aircraft components and full aircraft. Mask areas and prepare aircraft for media blasting. Coats surfaces of aircraft with paint, lacquer, epoxy, resin or other material, using brushes, rollers, spray guns and other devices, removes old paint from aircraft, using liquid paint remover and scraper. Smoothes surface with sandpaper and steel wool, roughens aluminum surfaces with acid solution and steel wool to insure that paint adheres to surface, masks and covers portions of surfaces not to be painted, and paint insignia, letters or numerals on aircraft surface, using stencils. May assist with other paint shop tasks as needed. EOE/ADA clearance IND123