Paint- Body Repair Technician

Hinckley Yachts has been building and servicing America’s finest yachts since 1928. With ten YachtCare Centers spanning from Maine to Florida, we offer comprehensive service, refits, transportation, and storage, providing our customers with pinnacle ownership experience. Our production facility is in Trenton, Maine near Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park.

Hinckley offers competitive wages, training, and full benefits, including medical, dental, vision, 401k with an employer match, and paid time off. Our expanding network allows the opportunity of upward mobility and a clear career path to achieve personal success.

The Hinckley Company, known for building and servicing, strong, seaworthy and beautiful yachts is seeking a Paint/Awlgrip Technician for our production facility in Trenton, Maine. The Paint/Awlgrip Technician assists, and performs basic preparation for painting boat exteriors and boat parts. Will learn the ability to perform a finish grade work product and is able to blend, repair, and paint decks, hulls, and parts. The Painter/Awlgrip Technician will spray finish coats to desirable thickness and may perform boot stripe layout.

• Tape or otherwise protect surrounding surfaces such as decks, hardware, windows from overspray during painting process.
• Cleans, sands, and smooths surfaces, using appropriate tools, such as scrapers, sandpaper, steel wool, or chemicals.
• Set-up and dismantle staging.
• Learns to mix materials.
• Performs long boarding using fairing compounds and polishes, and sands.
• Cleans boats and work area daily.
• May make repair recommendations to solve specific problems.
• Understands billing and material charging process.
• Some customer contact is necessary requiring diplomacy in communication skills.
• Follow prescribed safety rules and regulations and maintain safe, clean work area.
• All work to be performed to Hinckley Company quality standards.
• Perform other related duties as necessary and assigned.

• Vocational, High School diploma or General Equivalency Degree (GED) required.
• Basic reading, writing, math, and computer skills.
• Two (2) years experience in auto body or marine paint applications or equivalent experience.
• Operation of sanders/pneumatic tools, spray equipment use, set-up and maintenance.

Physical Requirements:

• Lift and carry over 25 lbs. and up to 60 lbs. on a frequent basis (over 40% and up to 70%)
• Requires frequently lifting or moving average weight material.
• Frequent mental and visual attention on an intermittent basis.
• Must be able to stoop, bend, kneel, lift, push, and pull and work in small, tight spaces.
• Requires working under disagreeable conditions on a frequent basis where elements such as dust, dirt, heat, fumes, cold, vibration, noise, water or chemicals may be present.

Mandatory respirator use is required for certain tasks.