What are the responsibilities and job description for the Flightline Aviation Painter position at MAAS Aviation?
In General:
The Aviation Painter – Flightline is responsible for the direct hands-on labor necessary to complete the aircraft painting process to company and customer specifications, including the completion of paint repairs.
Essential Duties:
The Aviation Painter is directly responsible for the following essential duties:
- Compliance with all health, safety, and environmental policies, procedures, and processes, including the proper use of personal protective equipment (PPE).
- Cleaning and preparing the operational areas of the site for aircraft painting activities.
- Staging the aircraft for the aircraft painting activities prior to the commencement of the aircraft painting process.
- Accessing the aircraft topaint areas with lift equipment (scissor and manlift).
- Masking activities to protect the “nottopaint” areas of the aircraft.
- Prepaint preparation of the “topaint” areas of the aircraft, including but not limited to cleaning, paint removal and sanding and abrading as may be required by process.
- Positioning of stencils and other production aids which facilitate the aircraft painting in accordance with customer specifications.
- Mixing paints.
- Painting with electrostatic and HVLP equipment.
- Touchup painting with brushes and rollers.
- Reads and interprets aircraft paint drawings and follows them accurately to accomplish paint job and ensures regulatory, emergency, and other customer placards are correct.
- Reads instructions and all cautions/warnings/notes information as necessary for proper and safe completion of assigned work.
- Installing mandatory and technical marking on the aircraft by paint or sticker decals as required.
- Ensures proper cleaning and maintenance of spray guns and other painting equipment.
- Additional and secondary duties supporting aircraft painting activities, such as cleaning technical areas, organizing production materials, etc. may be assigned from time to time.
About MAAS Aviation
MAAS delivers specialist aircraft painting services to all sectors of the aviation industry. We are an active, successful, and growing company that offers a rewarding working environment, and we are looking for aspiring professional aircraft painters to join our team! We believe our highly skilled teams across the world achieve excellent results every day and are the largest contributors to the success of our business.