Painter

Vehicle Refinishing Position

Responsibility for refinishing vehicles to meet pre-accident condition or industry standards of quality.

Essential duties and responsibilities include:

• Keep area safe and clean.
• Follow all safety measures for personal and environment safety.
• Wear all safety equipment for eyes, hands, face shields, lungs respiratory, and dust masks.
• Examine damaged vehicles and estimates cost of repairs. Reports any hidden damage to supervisor immediately.
• Report any lost or broken parts to the supervisor.
• Maintain all body shop equipment in good safe working condition.
• Maintain spray booth and mixing equipment. Keep mixing room in good working condition.
• Check body repairs before primer is applied.
• Maintain a level of quality to industry standards.
• Keep repaints to a minimum.
• Must remove all dirt and runs from painted area 2-3 dirt specks per panel.
• Clean paint areas and tools and equipment.
• Maintain proper stocking levels of paint and materials.
• Maintain a 25% gross profit margin or higher on paint and materials.
• Color match (tint) and mix paint.
• Keep production manager aware of status.
• Clean grease and dirt from product.
• Apply masking tape over parts and areas that are not to be coated.
• Fill cavities and dents with putty to attain smooth surface.
• Ability to multi-task under pressure.
• Alert the production manager to any unusual problems and delays.
• Must demonstrate positive corporate citizenship and the Rush Driving Principles.
• Maintain safe work environment.
• Maintain professional appearance.

As a condition of continued employment, the employee is required to exhibit positive corporate citizenship, with demonstrated ability to positively interact with others, follow required Company policies and procedures which include but are not limited to policies regarding conduct, record keeping, and safety. As a condition of continued employment the employee is required to refrain from any behavior that is construed as sexual harassment, harassment and/or creating or participating in a hostile work environment, and/or violence in the workplace.

Qualifications and position requirements include:

• High School Diploma or General Education Degree (GED). Minimum of 2-3 Years related work experience in a similar position. May substitute the equivalent combination of education and training
• Must possess a current and valid driver license with a driving record that meets the insurability guidelines set forth by the company's insurance carrier.
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions; correspondence; memos and various operating or procedural manuals. Ability to write routine reports and/or correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and/or group situations to customers, clients and other employees of the organization.
• 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 graphs.
• Ability to apply understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form. Ability to apply common-sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving few concrete variables in standardized situations. Ability to make decisions consistent with business practices and in the best interest of the Company within the scope of the job responsibilities.
• Proficiency with related hardware/software systems as needed to fully execute the duties required. General office skills and knowledge of equipment and systems including but not limited to filing systems, use of copiers, facsimile machines, postage meters telephone systems and other communication or electronic equipment as may be applicable.

Physical demands include:

• While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, and use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools and/or controls. The employee is frequently required to stand; sit; walk; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and talk or hear. The employee is required to stoop, kneel, crouch, push/pull, or crawl.
• The employee must regularly be able to with assistance lift and/or move more than 80 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work environment is usually moderate in noise level.

CCFT is an equal employment opportunity employer.