Industrial Painter I-Night Shift

Build Your Future at NWPX

At NWPX Infrastructure, we manufacture welded steel pipe and precast products that form the backbone of America's water infrastructure. It's work you can be proud of-and an opportunity to advance your career with a company committed to your professional growth and well-being.

Our brands-Northwest Pipe Company, NWPX Park, and NWPX Geneva-set the standard for safety, quality, innovation, and performance. Guided by our core values of Accountability, Commitment , and Teamwork , our people work collaboratively to deliver reliable products and trusted service to our customers-while building stable, rewarding careers along the way.

For over 50 years, NWPX has been a leader in reliable water infrastructure solutions, and our people are the foundation of our success. Build your future with us and be part of a legacy grounded in water .

WHAT NWPX OFFERS YOU:

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, AD&D Insurance
• Paid Vacation, Holidays, and Sick Time
• 401k Retirement Savings Plan with Employer Match
• On-Demand Pay (Access Your Earned Wages Before Payday)
• Bonus Potential
• Up to $5,000 per year Tuition Reimbursement
• Safety Footwear and Eyewear Voucher (Day 1 of Employment)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Opportunities for Career Advancement
• Values-Driven Culture Committed to Equal Opportunities and Safety

SUMMARY OF JOB PURPOSE:

Inspects, prepares and moves pipe for paint patch operations. Operates paint, tape and sandblasting machine safely and efficiently to create quality product. Under ongoing supervision, applies paint patch, load and unload pipe, mix paint materials, grind product, and modify product required by the facility.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Helps load, unload, and move product, materials and equipment safely and efficiently on or off vehicles.
• Prepares vehicles and equipment for loads.
• Mixes cement and prepares material for patchwork.
• Performs cement labor as needed by lead person and supervisor.
• Cuts materials in a safe manner to ensure safe transport of product and equipment
• Counts and marks all materials.
• Loads and unloads product in the paint and tape machine area.
• Assists in diagnosing problems associated with the patching, taping and painting of product.
• Inspects and maintains paint and sandblasting machine to ensure production of quality products.
• Inventories and maintains supplies.
• Loads paint product on paint machine in a safe manner.
• Operates poly paint machine in a safe manner
• Operates forklift and other product handling equipment.
• Follows ISO procedures
• Ensures pipe is cleaned prior to entering the paint machine area.
• Other duties may be assigned.

SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• None

PAINTER I - this level of Painter is responsible for performing quality paint application, and requires little or minimum experience. Individuals in this position operate, work with and around various large machinery and chemicals, so ample care and adherence to safety training is necessary. Duties are routinely carried out under close supervision; however, supervision is not always available for routine and repetitive tasks, which can be carried on without difficulty once they are learned. As work experience is gained and additional welding certification are obtained, the employee may be assigned to tasks that are more difficult in nature and require more responsibility.

PAINTER II - this level of Painter is responsible for performing duties described for a Painter I. This level of Painter requires additional training, skills and experience. Work normally is performed under limited to close supervision. As additional experience is gained, the employee may be assigned to tasks that are more difficult in nature and require more responsibility.

PAINTER III - this level of Painter is responsible for performing duties described for a Painter II. This level of Painter possesses advanced qualifications and experience. Work normally is performed under minimal supervision. Employees in this position may be responsible for providing on-the-job training to new employees.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

• Ability to ready, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the public.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

REASONING ABILITY:

• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

• High School degree or GED or equivalent or six months to one year related experience and/or training/or equivalent combination of education and experience.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS:

This job requires no licenses or certificates.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS/WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear.
• The employee frequently is required to climb or balance.
• The employee is occasionally required to sit.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts.
• The employee is frequently exposed to high, precarious places and outside weather conditions.

Physical Activity

Over 2/3 of the time:

• Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.

Up to 2/3 of the time:

• Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing or crouching on narrow, slippery or erratically moving surfaces. (This factor is important if the amount and kind of balancing the amount and kind of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.)
• Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with whole hand or grasping plastic or tape hoses.
• Grasping: Apply pressure to an object with fingers and palm to hoses plastic boards.
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and making fine discriminations in sound.
• Repetitive motions: Making substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers such as hoses, bolts, nuts, hose ends.

Less than 1/3 of the time:

• Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized. (This factor is important if the amount and kind of climbing required exceeds that required for ordinary locomotion.)
• Stooping: Positions self to you blast hoses paint hoses boards chock air hoses. (This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the full use of the lower extremities and back muscles.)
• Kneeling/Crouching: Positions self to remove plastic cleaning repairing parts.
• Crawling: Moving about to position self to move blasting painting inside pipe cleaning pipe.
• Reaching: Grabbing things from a distance above or from the side.
• Standing/Sit: Remaining upright in a stationary position, particularly for sustained periods.
• Walking: Moving about to accomplish task, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.
• Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward downward or outward.
• Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, drag, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
• Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to position. (This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the substantial use of the upper extremities and back muscles.

Physical Requirements:

• Very heavy work: Exerting in excess of 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or in excess of 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or in excess of 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

Visual Acuity:

• The worker is required to have visual acuity to determine the accuracy, neatness and thoroughness of the work assigned (i.e., custodial food services general labor, etc.) or to make general observations of facilities or structures (i.e., security guard inspection etc.)

Vision Requirements:

Up to 2/3 of time, the worker is required to have:

• The worker is required to have close vision (clear vision at 20 inches or less)
• The worker is required to have peripheral vision (ability to observe an area that can be seen up and down or to the left and right while eyes are fixed on a given point)
• The worker is required to have depth perception (three-dimensional vision, ability to judge distances and spatial relationships)
• The worker is required to have the ability to adjust visual focus (ability to adjust the eye to bring an object into sharp focus)

Less than 1/3 of the time:

• The worker is required to have distance vision (clear vision at 20 feet or more)
• The worker is required to have color vision (ability to identify and distinguish colors)
• The worker will not be required to have any special vision.

Weather Conditions:

Up to 2/3 of time, the worker is required to have:

• The worker is subject to inside environmental conditions: Protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes.
• The worker is subject to noise: There is sufficient noise to cause the worker to shout in order to be heard above the ambient noise level.
• The worker is subject to atmospheric conditions: One or more of the following conditions that affect the respiratory system of the skin: Fumes, odors, dusts, mists, gases or poor ventilation.

Less than 1/3 of the time:

• The worker is subject to inside environmental conditions: Protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes.
• The worker is subject to oils: There is air and/or skin exposure to oils and other cutting fluids.
• The worker is subject to extreme cold: Temperatures typically below 32 degrees for periods of more than one hour. (Consideration should be given to the effect of other environmental conditions such as wind and humidity.)
• The worker is subject to extreme heat: Temperatures above 100 degrees for periods of more than one hour. (Consideration should be given to the effect of other environmental conditions such as wind and humidity.)
• The worker is subject to hazards: Includes a variety of physical conditions, such as proximity to moving mechanical parts, moving vehicles, electrical current, working on scaffolding and high places, exposure to high heat or exposure to chemicals.
• The worker is required to wear a respirator.
• The worker frequently is in close quarters, crawl spaces, shafts, manholes, small-enclosed rooms, small sewage and water line pipes, and other areas, which could cause claustrophobia.
• The worker is required to function in narrow aisles or passageways. The worker is exposed to infectious diseases.

Noise Levels:

Up to 2/3 of the time:

• Loud noise (examples: metal can manufacturing department, large earth-moving equipment)

Less than 1/3 of the time:

• Very loud noise (examples: jack hammer work, front row at rock concert)

Supervision Received:

• Supervision: The incumbent performs a variety of routine work within established policies and procedures and receives detailed instructions on new projects and assignments.

Personal Protective Equipment is required when in the Plant, Yard or Construction Areas:

• Hard Hat
• Safety Glasses
• Steel-toed Boots
• Hearing Protection
• Reflective Vest

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Except where prohibited by state law, offers of employment may be contingent upon the successful completion of a background check, drug test, and/or physical examination, as determined by the essential functions and physical requirements of the position.

NWPX Infrastructure is committed to equal employment opportunity. Veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

NWPX Infrastructure reserves the right to close the position, with or without notice, if a qualified candidate is identified prior to the close date.