Painter (Various Shifts) - Indianapolis, IN

Painter

Textron Aviation has been inspiring the journey of flight for nine decades through the iconic and beloved Cessna and Beechcraft brands. We are passionate advocates of aviation, empowering people with the freedom of flight. As you join our legacy as a global leader in private aviation, you'll have opportunities to try new fields, expand your skills and knowledge, stretch your abilities, and build your career. We provide a competitive and extensive total rewards package that includes pay and innovative benefits to support you and your family members

now and in the future, beginning day one. Your success is our success.
Join the team that keeps the skies moving! We are hiring immediately a full-time Spray Painter for our Customer Service team.
What you'll be doing:
Prepare, mask, and paint aircraft surfaces using professional grade tools and techniques.
Perform precision touchups, matching specialty finishes, and operating industry standard spray equipment.
Work with supportive teammates while keeping the paint shop running smoothly through proactive materials coordination.
Your responsibilities may include (but are not limited to):
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.
Qualifications
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.
Why join us? 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.
At Textron Aviation, base pay is only one of the parts of our Total Rewards package and is determined within a range. This provides you with opportunities to grow and develop within your role, and depends on your experience, qualifications, and location.