Job Title: Coating Craftsman

Job Summary:

Marquis Construction Services is seeking a skilled Coating Craftsman to join our team. As a Coating Craftsman, you will be responsible for performing blasting and coating duties as required per the job specifications.

Key Responsibilities:

• Adhere to Safety Protocols: Adhere to all OSHA, site-specific, and Marquis Construction Services requirements for the blasting and painting.
• Environmental Compliance: Abide by all environmental (EPA) standards.
• Job Site Safety: Inspect job site for safety hazards.
• Safety Pre-Job Audits: Participate in safety pre-job audits (JSA's) with the painting crew to ensure all safety hazards have been identified.
• Scaffolding Inspection: Conduct daily visual inspections of scaffolding to ensure structural stability.
• Surface Preparation: Prepare and paint a variety of surfaces, including ferrous and non-ferrous metals, aluminum, and concrete, to Marquis and customer specifications.
• Blueprint Interpretation: Work from non-complex blueprints, specifications, work sheets, dimensions, color codes, mixing charts, tables, verbal, and written instructions.
• Paint Mixing: Prepare, match colors, and mix standards and other primers, paints, and coatings to proper consistency and viscosity, using thinners, solvents, additives, and agitators as required.
• Surface Masking: Prepare and clean items and surfaces to be finished. Mask, plug, block finished, machined, or specified surfaces not to be coated.
• Coating Application: Uniformly apply wet primers, paints, and wet or dry coatings to parts and components and other items, using care to avoid over-spraying/coating and to obtain a smooth, covered, and even surface free from runs and thin spots.
• Quality Control: Visually and mechanically check finished items for pinholes, runs, bare spots, proper coverage. Refinish and touch up as required.
• Sample Preparation: Prepare and coat sample pieces.
• Equipment Maintenance: Ensure the proper movement of finished goods to inspection or shipping areas, cleaning and maintenance of spray application equipment, booths, filters, protective clothing, and equipment according to established practices.
• Communication: Communicate effectively with crew members and supervision.
• Cleanup: Cleanup work area, supplies, materials, and equipment.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described represent those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

• Moving Mechanical Parts: Working around moving mechanical parts.
• High Places: Working in high precarious places.
• Weather Conditions: Exposed to all types of weather conditions - hot/humid/cold/wet.
• Chemicals: Working around different types of chemicals.
• Noise: Working in high noise areas.
• Shop Elements: May be exposed to any number of adverse shop elements, odors to the extent of being disagreeable.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Standing: Stand for long periods of time.
• Hand and Arm Use: Ability to feel and reach with hands and arms.
• Mobility: Ability to stand, walk, climb, or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, talk, or hear, and taste and smell.
• Lifting: The employee must regularly lift and/or move 50 pounds.
• Vision: Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Qualifications:

• Education: High School Degree or equivalent.
• PPE: Required to wear PPE on the job site at all times.
• Mathematics: Use of shop mathematics together with the use of specifications, blueprints, tables, color charts, adjustable measuring instruments.
• Background Check: Ability to pass Hair Follicle Testing.
• Background: Acceptable Background.
• Experience: 2 to 3 years of coating experience preferred in a chemical plant environment. (Does not apply to Helper positions).
• Overtime: Ability to work overtime.
• Training: Successful candidates could be required to complete lead abatement training and regularly scheduled lead testing.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Marquis is an equal opportunity employer and considers candidates regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veterans' status.