FABRICATOR/PAINTER

Fabricator/Painter

As the Fabricator/Painter, your responsibilities will include applying finish protective coatings, both air dry and baked with spray guns and/or brushes. You will be required to clean cadmium, copper, tin, and other electro-plating of missile, other products, test equipment, and tooling parts by electrolytic processes. You will operate sandblaster or tumble blast equipment for removal of scale, flux, corrosion, and dirt from material or parts. You will also prove ablative, plastic, and bonding fabrication and assembly tools, components, materials, methods, and techniques for fabricating and assembling production and prototype components. You will apply carbon fiber material in the fabrication of composite structures. You will set up, plan, and prove the sequence of operations on injection molding machines and related controls. You will assure proper installation of molds, instruct operators, check initial parts, and assure continued quality of production. You will monitor and perform required adjustments to ensure acceptable hardware is produced. You will plan, setup, and operate various ablative processing equipment, such as presses, tape-wrapper, hydroclaves, autoclaves, bonding, and molding equipment; and make difficult layouts without the aid of templates to produce production and other parts including prototypes using a variety of materials, such as ablatives, plastics, foams, resins, rubber, felts, as well as ferrous and non-ferrous metals. You may involve responsibility for oven temperatures, time controls, and coating consistency. You will mix paints, lacquers, and enamels and thin to consistency stipulated in company or customer specifications. You will check surface conditions prior to painting for cleanliness and masking and for post paint treatments such as etching and baking. You will set up and operate spray painting equipment following routine procedure. You will maintain close check and control on viscosity of paints. You will do any touch-up and rework with spray gun and/or brushes. You will blend paint by mixing two or more colors to meet color standards or specifications as required. You will require the cleaning or irradiating of parts or assemblies and performing other basic immersion processes.