Manual Coating Operator

GENERAL SUMMARY: Blasts pipe to remove rust, contamination, and poly coating to prepare pipes for coating. Performs taping & coating procedures and prepares pipe for shipment.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: To perform the 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.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS/RESPONSIBILITIES: include the Manual Lining & Coating Operator I station duties described below. Other duties may be assigned, including but not limited to cross training and housekeeping. Responsibilities also include attention to safety according to all safety rules.

• Maintains blasting, taping and coating machinery by performing preventive maintenance, and reports repair or extensive maintenance requirements to Team Leader.
• Breakdown, fix and reassemble ID blaster
• Change out nozzles on blasting holes, gaskets on hoses pipes, ID hose to OD hose on the pots
• Check levels on the silos for the shots/black beauty (media).
• Fill the pots.
• Set up bunks for different pipes.
• Set up ID blaster.
• Clean ID blaster.
• Maintains protective abrasive hood with respirator.
• Confers with department Team Leader to determine progress of work and to provide information on changes in processing methods received from production control or engineering departments.
• Positions pipe for blasting, positions shrouds for protection, operates blasting control console to perform blasting operations per drawings and specifications.
• Applies primer, coating, or tape per customer specifications by operating machinery and monitoring application of tape or coating.
• Reads customer specification and drawings to determine type of coating, position of holdbacks and other specifications for setting up pipe for taping and/or coating operations.
• Reads, understands and interprets specifications from pyschrometer to determine the dew point and humidity before blasting
• Places end caps on pipe.
• Removes pipe from work area and stages it for removal to yard, shipping area, or fab finishing area.
• Performs other tasks as instructed by supervision.
• Maintains blasting, taping and coating machinery by performing preventive maintenance, and reports repair or extensive maintenance requirements to Team Leader.
• Breakdown, fix and reassemble ID blaster
• Change out nozzles on blasting holes, gaskets on hoses pipes, ID hose to OD hose on the pots
• Check levels on the silos for the shots/black beauty (media).
• Fill the pots.
• Set up bunks for different pipes.
• Set up ID blaster.
• Clean ID blaster.
• Maintains protective abrasive hood with respirator.
• Confers with department Team Leader to determine progress of work and to provide information on changes in processing methods received from production control or engineering departments.
• Positions pipe for blasting, positions shrouds for protection, operates blasting control console to perform blasting operations per drawings and specifications.
• Applies primer, coating, or tape per customer specifications by operating machinery and monitoring application of tape or coating.
• Reads customer specification and drawings to determine type of coating, position of holdbacks and other specifications for setting up pipe for taping and/or coating operations.
• Reads, understands and interprets specifications from pyschrometer to determine the dew point and humidity before blasting
• Places end caps on pipe.
• Removes pipe from work area and stages it for removal to yard, shipping area, or fab finishing area.
• Performs other tasks as instructed by supervision.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: 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 or moving objects. The employee is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions and fumes or airborne particles. The employee is occasionally exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals; outside weather conditions and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.