Job Description

The Automotive Painter will: Paint or remove paint from contract units in accordance with customer specifications. Understands and applies various corrosion control methods and technologies. Position reports to Supervisor.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Coats surfaces of contract units with primer, paint, lacquer, epoxy, resin or other material, using brushes, rollers, spray guns and other devices.

• Removes old paint using liquid paint remover and scraper or plastic/sand media blasting techniques.

• Smooths surface with sandpaper and steel wool. Roughens aluminum surfaces with acid solution and steel wool to ensure that paint adheres to surface and provides corrosion control methods to customer specifications.

• Masks and covers portions of surfaces not to be painted. Paints insignia, letters or numerals on vehicle surface, using stencils.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

Minimum Requirements:

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED) is required.

• Three (3) years recent experience in the maintenance, overhaul and painting/repainting of contract unit equipment is required

• Must have normal color vision.

• PFT and Respirator Fit test is required.

• Applicant must possess excellent customer service skills, and the background necessary to be granted government computer access.

• Must be able to speak, read, write and understand English.

• Position may require the ability to pass and maintain a Security Clearance.

• Position may require travel.

Work Environment, Physical Demands, and Mental Demands:

• Safety shoes required.

• Lifting of 10-50 lbs. may be required.

• Must be able to pass a pulmonary physical.

• Work is done on a concrete floor.

• Sounds of various tools being used at one time may be part of the work environment.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; use hand to finger, handle, or fee; and talk or hear.

• The employee frequently is required to walk reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.

• The employees is occasionally required to sit, climb or balance.

• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

• Specific vision abilities required by this job includes close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts and extreme heat.

• The employee is regularly exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions; extreme cold; and risk of electrical shock.

• The noise level in the work environment is usually loud, or may include unsafe conditions, questioning nonstandard operations or environmental factors that may involve unmitigated hazards, and providing feedback to supervisors and managers on all safety issues.

Other Responsibilities:

Safety – Amentum enforces a safety culture whereby all employees have the responsibility for continuously developing and maintaining a safe work environment. As appropriate, each employee is responsible for completing all training requirements and fulfilling all self-aid/buddy aid responsibilities, participating in emergency response tasks and serving on safety committees and teams.

Quality – Quality is the foundation for the management of our business and the keystone to our goal of customer satisfaction, It is our policy to consistently provide services that meet customer expectations. Accordingly, each employee must conform to the Amentum Quality Policy and carry out job activities in compliance with applicable Amentum Quality System documents and Customer contract. Each employee must reach and understand his/her Quality Management and Customer Satisfaction responsibilities.

Procedure Compliance – Each employee must read, understand and implement the general and specific operational, safety, quality and environmental requirements of all plans, procedures and policies pertaining to his/her job.

Amentum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran’s status, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, family structure, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law. Learn more about your rights under Federal EEO laws and supplemental language at EEO including Disability/Protected Veterans ( and Labor Laws Posters ( .

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