Composites Paint & Finish Technician - Materials Sciences LLC

MSC Composites Paint & Finish Technician Job Description

Location: Greenville, SC

Job Description: Materials Sciences LLC (MSC) is looking for a US citizen to become the organization's lead Composites Paint & Finish Technician. The role of Composites Paint & Finishes Technician is vital to the continued growth of Materials Sciences LLC and its service in the defense of the United States of America. This role will provide the team with finishes expertise for composite assemblies and well as secondary composites lamination support (will provide training) to balance out task work.

The Composites Paint & Finish Technician performs work in a dedicated production paint booth and directly on the composites manufacturing floor. Both areas necessitate the usage of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment). While it is desired for employees in this role to work with minimal supervision, they must also communicate effectively with other technicians to complete production objectives in a timely manner. Organizational skills and attention to detail are essential as the final manufactured components are high-performance, requiring skill and precision to correctly produce on-time and on-budget. Composites Paint & Finish Technicians are responsible for reporting their progress to a Composites Supervisor.

All Technicians, including the Composites Paint & Finish Technician, must be able to stand on their feet for several hours at a time and lift heavy objects up to 50 lbs on occasion. A high school diploma is a minimal educational requirement, and prior experience in manufacturing or a related field is highly beneficial. Industrial certifications are greatly respected.

General Responsibilities Include:

• Being a team member of outstanding character, including a willingness to hold self and team members accountable for operational excellence.
• Bringing to work more often than not, a relentless drive to win and a positive, fun attitude.
• Willingness to train finishes expertise into others as well as master new skills for the greater good of the organization.
• Modeling a disciplined safety and ergonomic work ethic when handling, applying, storing and disposing of paints, composite materials, adhesives, sealants, resins and solvents per OSHA and EPA regulations.
• Disciplined and proper application of PPE to protect self and team members.
• Stewarding company resources while minimizing waste-stream flow.
• Maintaining a superbly organized and clean work space in order to model 5S culture.
• Exhibiting a zero-defect mentality as well as a "right-the-first-time" approach.
• Extreme discipline in following Manufacturing and Inspection Procedures (MIPs) and Work Orders, coupled with a willingness to support engineering in their improvement.
• Disciplined completion of all required documentation.
• Inspecting finished surfaces for defects, imperfections, foreign material (FOD) or other non-conformances, and correcting as necessary to specifications.
• Complying with established QMS (Quality Management System) procedures.

Specific Skills Include:

• Ability to interpret SDS (Safety Data Sheets), material supplier specifications, and MIL-specifications in order to enable premium paint and finishes application.
• Ability to thin to best, allowable paint and finishes viscosity that will achieve desired engineering result.
• Ability to apply target paint and finish thicknesses to achieve engineering requirements.
• Ability to color-match and blend paints and finishes to achieve engineering requirements.
• Highly efficient and accurate filling/fairing/sanding/cleaning of composite materials to proper dimensions based on MIPs, Work Orders and drawings prior to the addition of primers, paints, and final finishes.
• Highly efficient and accurate application of masking and stenciling methods. Ability to interpret engineering and/or customer drawings. Cradle-to-grave ordering and/or self-creation of custom stencils is a bonus skill that can be trained if not available.
• Interpretation and build application of customer camouflage patterns as required.
• Ability to touch-up incidental manufacturing defects that occur during or after paint and finishes applications.
• Mentoring the Lamination Technician team towards providing completed composites products that requires minimal to no Finishes Technician re-work prior to paint and finish.
• Using basic math to calculate, weigh, mix and catalyze paints, finishes, and resins.
• Basic computer skills that can be supplemented by additional training as required.
• Occasionally lifting 35lbs and infrequently lifting up to 50 lbs.
• Supports broader team in the design and fabrication of crates and specialized packaging that protect paints and finishes all the way through customer delivery.
• Other team duties as required.

Working Conditions:

• Currently, all production happens on 1st shift. There will inevitably be times when extended work hours or work weekends will be required to complete customer deliveries on time.
• Will be exposed to normal manufacturing noise, sanding/fairing debris, hazardous chemicals, are standard industrial equipment that can pose personal danger if safety regulations are not followed.

Required Qualifications:

• Must pass a respiratory physical in order to be certified for a half and full-face respirator PPE.
• Must have basic math and mechanical knowledge, manual dexterity, good eyesight and the ability to perform repetitive tasks.
• High School diploma.
• United States Citizen.
• Understanding of basic tools.
• Willingness to learn and execute supporting Lamination Technician skillsets (will train) to supplement the team when Paint & Finish task work is well under control.
• Highly desired but not mandatory: A two-year technical certificate, preferably in aerospace or automotive paints and finishes technologies that would lead to your fast and successful contribution to the MSC team.

What will set you apart from your competition?

• Being a team member of outstanding character, including a willingness to hold self and team members accountable for operational excellence.
• Bringing to work more often than not, a relentless drive to win and a positive, fun attitude.
• Willingness to train others as well as further develop your own skill.
• The above Paint and Finish skills.
• Ability to contribute to business planning by recommending equipment and processes that are not currently deployed at MSC, but would improve safety, quality, and efficiency if they were.
• Incoming, basic familiarity with 5S, AS9100, OSHA, EPA standards.
• Experience operating within a QMS (Quality Management System).
• Leadership skills even if you have no direct reports.

Benefits offered:

• 401(K)
• Medical PPO and HSA health plans
• Employee life insurance
• A great team to work with within a recognition culture
• Opportunity to provide US warfighters with the best equipment in the world