Description:
The Powder Coating - Level 1 position is an individual contributor in the Paint Department. This person must be a highly driven individual that will prepare Valmont products prior to painting, ensure high quality finishes after the painting process, and package the finished product for shipment.
Essential Functions
- Hang and unhang parts such as light poles, arms, bases, and small components as needed
- Blasts the product using a Wheelabrater and ensures the product has a sufficient blast profile
- Responsible for blowing shot and dust off of parts and repairs all damaged galvanizing and removes all oil and contaminates
- Responsible for final visual quality check of poles
- Installs all post finish attachments and package poles and arms
- Performs basic maintenance on blasting, rigging, and packaging equipment
- Ability to lift an average weight of 20 to 40 pounds, 40% of the time(i.e., all small parts, arms and pedestal bases), and lift 50 pound containers 5-10 times per shift
- Ability to wear all required personal protective equipment (PPE) and work both in a non-temperature controlled environment and outdoors
- Ability to spend 100% of the shift standing, walking, sitting, bending, squatting, balancing, stooping, kneeling and lifting in the process of preparing and/or coating of all poles and parts within the department
- Ability to operate fork lifts, overhead cranes, power tools, packaging equipment, Wheelabrator, and blasting equipment
Important Details About The Role
- The employee is responsible for own work
- Must be able to work with other employees to complete job
- Helps train employees in proper packaging, blasting, and hanging techniques
- Must be able to determine the acceptance or rejection of finished coated poles and small parts according to standard specifications.
- Extreme care is required when blasting galvanized parts so as not to remove the zinc and cause galvanized re-work at significant cost
- The employee must maintain safe and productive work environment producing a quality product which is shipped complete and on time to satisfy the needs of the customer
- The employee has a direct impact on safety, quality, productivity, TME (total manufacturing expenses), and customer satisfaction
- This position reports to the shop’s Production Manager