Painter (Various Shifts) - Indianapolis, IN

Spray Painter

Join the team that keeps the skies moving! We are hiring immediately a full-time Spray Painter for our Customer Service team. In this role, you can expect to build your craft as you prepare, mask, and paint aircraft surfaces using professional grade tools and techniques. You'll gain hands-on experience performing precision touchups, matching specialty finishes, and operating industry standard spray equipment. You can also expect to work with supportive teammates while keeping the paint shop running smoothly through proactive materials coordination. Your responsibilities may include:
Flight Advanced Surface Preparation & Painting: Prepare, strip, sand, clean, mask, prime, and spray-paint aircraft surfaces, including large structures such as fuselage, tails, and wings, using refined techniques to achieve high quality finishes and meet customer expectations
Precision Rework & Touchup: Perform detailed rework and blends on completed aircraftinterior and exteriorensuring seamless results and protection of surrounding surfaces through careful overspray control
Specialty Finish Matching: Match and apply specialized domestic and foreign paint finishes, ensuring consistency with field applied coatings and high-end customer standards
Equipment Operation & Maintenance: Set up, adjust, operate, and maintain spray guns, paint pots, hoses, and related equipment, ensuring optimal performance and compliance with operational requirements
Quality Inspection & Collaboration: Review paint work for discrepancies, determine required corrections, and collaborate with internal teams and external vendors to integrate quality enhancing products, materials, and processes
Materials Management: Monitor inventory, forecast supply needs, and order materials proactively to support uninterrupted paint operations
What you need to be successful:
High school diploma or equivalent, or a bronze level WorkKeys certification required
Ability to obtain and maintain an airport security badge, if required for the worksite
Basic understanding of measurements, tools and shop practices and high attention to detail with an interest in hands-on craft-driven work
Your success is our success. We provide a competitive and extensive total rewards package that includes pay and innovative benefits to help you and your family members

now and in the future, beginning day one.