Aircraft Painter

About the Role

This role is at Spirit AeroSystems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company, supporting Spirit’s Commercial Business Units. Spirit Commercial designs and builds commercial aerostructures.

Location

Tulsa, OK

Key Responsibilities

• Move and/or obtain correct parts, materials, and tools within the assigned area as directed.
• Use all precision measuring instruments required to accomplish work assignments.
• Access and navigate electronic systems as required by the position program and/or company. (Company will provide training.)
• Work safely and maintain a safe work environment adhering to established company safety requirements.
• Train, coach, and/or assist fellow employees as requested or required.
• Maintain and utilize required personal certifications and qualifications as directed by the company.
• Ensure equipment and tool certification occurs per procedure.
• Report job handicaps such as errors in parts, procedures, tools, or sequences.
• Read and interpret blueprints, drawings, specifications, planning documents, sketches, engineering orders, electronic work instructions, charts, and graphs to determine methods and sequences of operations for processing and painting.
• Set up and operate chern-mill processing equipment to remove specified amounts of metal from parts and assemblies, utilizing etching solution.
• Set up, operate, adjust, and regulate various types of ovens and furnaces and quenching tanks to heat treat metal parts made from aluminum, titanium, stainless steel, and other similar metals.
• Operate hand and power moving and lifting equipment to place parts in ovens, furnaces, and baths.
• Set up and operate processing equipment to anodize, electroplate, or clean metal parts and assemblies.
• Determine sequences of dips and rinses, position parts and electrodes, calculate and adjust immersion times, temperatures, and voltage/amperage levels.
• Check and maintain processing solutions and chemicals in tanks.
• Set up and operate various types of paint spraying equipment or dip, roll, and brush interior and exterior prime, protective, or finish coats on aircraft, automobiles, trucks, trailers, parts, and assemblies.
• Thin and mix paints and other surfacing materials.
• Set up and operate robotic spray coating equipment by selecting and loading program tapes, masking material surfaces, mixing/blending coating material, and controlling spray flow rates, pressures, plume geometry, and robot travel speed and pattern.
• Apply finish coats where difficult access and special care are required to avoid runs and inconsistencies of coat thickness.
• Perform rework and touch-up when tests disclose rework is necessary.
• Record manufacturing data and statistics manually or with computer assistance.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Willing and able to work any shift.
• Overtime is an essential function and may be required in excess of 8 hours per day or over 40 hours per week.
• Previous experience using industrial paint sprayer guns (preferred).
• Must meet export control compliance requirements. A “U.S. Person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. § 120.15 is required. “U.S. Person” includes U.S. Citizen, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee.

Qualifications

• This is a union-represented position.
• Willing and able to work any shift.

Pay

• $20.00/hour, with potential to earn up to $32.69/hour in accordance with the terms of the relevant collective bargaining agreement.