Career Painter

Career Painter

– Shell Rock, IA – 1st Shift

As a Painter at Trinity, you’ll prepare, coat, and finish metal and/or other surfaces. You’ll operate conventional/airless spray equipment to apply industrial paint finishes on metal and/or other types of surfaces. You’ll also mix and apply alkyds, epoxies, gel coats, powder coats, urethane, zinc epoxies, and water‑borne paint systems according to a prescribed formula.

The Painter adjusts nozzles on spray guns to obtain the proper dispersion of spray and monitors the flow and viscosity of the paint for solution. The Painter utilizes mill gauge and monitors the pressure amount properly, cleans paint lines, paint guns, and performs other cleaning preventive maintenance to ensure painting apparatus remains in working order. The Painter also regulates temperature/air circulation in drying ovens.

What you’ll do

Proficiently apply exterior coatings by spray and/or hand‑held methods

Proficiently seal and/or bake final exterior coatings

Proficiently apply interior primer coats

Prepare painting area

Apply primer or first exterior coat

Prepare and/or mix paint

Follow all safety rules

May be involved in safety committees or initiatives

Perform other duties as assigned

What you’ll need

1 year of experience in manufacturing

Equal Opportunity Employer
Trinity Industries, Inc., and its subsidiary or affiliated companies (hereinafter “Trinity”) are committed to equal employment opportunity. It is our policy to consider candidates for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Trinity participates in E‑Verify and will provide the federal government with Form I‑9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.

Trinity is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please contact the accommodations team.

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