Painter - IAH Airport

Painter

The Painter supports airport services operations by preparing, painting, refinishing, and maintaining airport equipment, facility surfaces, and related assets. This role performs surface preparation, coating application, touch-ups, corrosion prevention, and general finish repairs while following all safety, security, environmental, and airport operational requirements.

These duties are not meant to be all-inclusive, and other duties may be assigned.

• Prepare surfaces by cleaning, sanding, scraping, masking, grinding, or applying primer.
• Apply paint, coatings, sealants, and finishes using brushes, rollers, or spray equipment.
• Perform touch-up painting, rust removal, corrosion control, and finish repairs on airport equipment, facility areas, and related assets.
• Mix and apply paints and coatings according to specifications, safety requirements, and company standards.
• Inspect completed work for quality, coverage, and compliance with work orders.
• Maintain painting tools, equipment, materials, and work areas in a clean and safe condition.
• Follow all safety, PPE, chemical handling, hazardous material, lockout/tagout, fall protection, and airport security procedures.
• Document completed work, materials used, and repair needs.
• Support general maintenance tasks as needed.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Minimum qualifications include a high school diploma or GED equivalent, a valid driver license, and experience with prep, grit blast, and final paint of heavy machinery. Required to understand all paint related safety training including, Haz-Mat, respirator, VOC, and paint booth operation. Ability to communicate professionally to customers and fellow employees. Ability to be badged to work in secure areas of an airport. Ability to work flexible schedules, including nights, weekends, holidays, and overtime based on operational needs.

Preferred qualifications include familiarity with airport operations, computer skills, specifically with Microsoft Word and Excel, and possess basic mechanic skills including mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, troubleshooting.

Physical demands include standing, walking, using hands and fingers to handle or feel, reaching with hands and arms, stooping, kneeling, crouching, or crawling, climbing or balancing, and working in small spaces. Ladder work required. Must lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Ability to work in outside weather conditions on an airport ramp around aircrafts and the confined areas of baggage conveyor systems. Specific vision abilities required by this job include good close proximity vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. Good hand / eye coordination is required.

The work environment is similar to airport operation with vehicular traffic. The employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts, high, precarious places, outside weather conditions, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, cold, and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud. Employees will work on an airport ramp around aircrafts and around heavy equipment.