Industrial Paint Technician-Night

Build Your Future at NWPX At NWPX Infrastructure, we manufacture welded steel pipe and precast products that form the backbone of America’s water infrastructure. It’s work you can be proud of—and an opportunity to advance your career with a company committed to your professional growth and well-being. Our brands—Northwest Pipe Company, NWPX Park, and NWPX Geneva—set the standard for safety, quality, innovation, and performance. Guided by our core values of Accountability, Commitment, and Teamwork, our people work collaboratively to deliver reliable products and trusted service to our customers—while building stable, rewarding careers along the way. For over 50 years, NWPX has been a leader in reliable water infrastructure solutions, and our people are the foundation of our success. Build your future with us and be part of a legacy grounded in water. WHAT NWPX OFFERS YOU: • Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, AD&D Insurance • Paid Vacation, Holidays, and Sick Time • 401k Retirement Savings Plan with Employer Match • On-Demand Pay (Access Your Earned Wages Before Payday) • Bonus Potential • Up to $5,000 per year Tuition Reimbursement • Safety Footwear and Eyewear Voucher (Day 1 of Employment) • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) • Opportunities for Career Advancement • Values-Driven Culture Committed to Equal Opportunities and Safety SUMMARY OF JOB PURPOSE: Inspects, prepares and moves pipe for paint patch operations. Operates paint, tape and sandblasting machine safely and efficiently to create quality product. Under ongoing supervision, applies paint patch, load and unload pipe, mix paint materials, grind product, and modify product required by the facility. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES: • Helps load, unload, and move product, materials and equipment safely and efficiently on or off vehicles. • Prepares vehicles and equipment for loads. • Mixes cement and prepares material for patchwork. • Performs cement labor as needed by lead person and supervisor. • Cuts materials in a safe manner to ensure safe transport of product and equipment • Counts and marks all materials. • Loads and unloads product in the paint and tape machine area. • Assists in diagnosing problems associated with the patching, taping and painting of product. • Inspects and maintains paint and sandblasting machine to ensure production of quality products. • Inventories and maintains supplies. • Loads paint product on paint machine in a safe manner. • Operates poly paint machine in a safe manner • Operates forklift and other product handling equipment. • Follows ISO procedures • Ensures pipe is cleaned prior to entering the paint machine area. • Other duties may be assigned. SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITIES: • None PAINTER I – this level of Painter is responsible for performing quality paint application, and requires little or minimum experience. Individuals in this position operate, work with and around various large machinery and chemicals, so ample care and adherence to safety training is necessary. Duties are routinely carried out under close supervision; however, supervision is not always available for routine and repetitive tasks, which can be carried on without difficulty once they are learned. As work experience is gained and additional welding certification are obtained, the employee may be assigned to tasks that are more difficult in nature and require more responsibility. PAINTER II – this level of Painter is responsible for performing duties described for a Painter I. This level of Painter requires additional training, skills and experience. Work normally is performed under limited to close supervision. As additional experience is gained, the employee may be assigned to tasks that are more difficult in nature and require more responsibility. PAINTER III – this level of Painter is responsible for performing duties described for a Painter II. This level of Painter possesses advanced qualifications and experience. Work normally is performed under minimal supervision. Employees in this position may be responsible for providing on-the-job training to new employees. SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: This job has no supervisory responsibilities. KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. LANGUAGE SKILLS: • Ability to ready, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. • Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. • Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the public. MATHEMATICAL SKILLS: • Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. • Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs. REASONING ABILITY: • Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. • Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form. EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE: • High School degree or GED or equivalent or six months to one year related experience and/or training/or equivalent combination of education and experience. CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS: This job requires no licenses or certificates. PHYSICAL DEMANDS/WORK ENVIRONMENT: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear. • The employee frequently is required to climb or balance. • The employee is occasionally required to sit. • The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts. • The employee is frequently exposed to high, precarious places and outside weather conditions. Physical Activity Over 2/3 of the time: • Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips. Up to 2/3 of the time: • Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing or crouching on narrow, slippery or erratically moving surfaces. (This factor is important if the amount and kind of balancing the amount and kind of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.) • Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with whole hand or grasping plastic or tape hoses. • Grasping: Apply pressure to an object with fingers and palm to hoses plastic boards. • Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly. • Hearing: Perceiving the na