Red Sky have an exciting opportunity at Heathrow Airport for an Aircraft Painter. You will be responsible for carrying out paint repairs and touch ups on aircrafts interior.
Duties
- Prepares for painting by masking, stripping, washing aircraft sections and components. Blends and mixes paints, inks, and coatings to proper spraying consistency and aircraft specification.
- Responsible for maintaining their equipment between jobs and ensuring they are ready for the next task. They make repairs to old paint jobs using colour-matching software and appropriate touch-up paints and finishes.
- Adherence to all EASA regulations, company procedures, airport regulations, including Health & Safety
- Applies coating filling compounds per aircraft specification.
- Clears any spots and defects. Applies touch up if required. Inspects base colour coat before applying metallic clear colour application Prepares and applies topcoat application with little or no direction,
- Buffs and polishes for final finish using proper abrasives.
- Removes pull tapes and masking tape material after paint prep stage is completed.
- Inspects aircraft for any defects, discoloration, spots, and touch up as needed.
- Maintains and cleans an organized work area
- Ability to complete form 1/ Part145 paperwork and will ensure proper use of all personal protective clothing and equipment as required and provided.
Essential
- Ability to read, understand and interpret engineer coating drawings, customer option selections solutions, and placard installations (interior, exterior, and wheel well).
- Detail oriented.
- Familiar with Hazardous and self-verification processes applicable to chemicals such as Alodine, Alodine PH, MEK and solvent usage.
- Must work under own initiative and be able to plan workloads and prioritize.
- Ability to follow instructions.
- Ability to work in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
- PC/Tablet Knowledge
- Diploma or equivalent
- 5years + related experience in aircraft paint
- SSPC Certification strongly preferred
- Advance paint mixing knowledge and abilities to colour blend and colour match
- Spot paint repair inspections
- Current human factors, EWIS and FTS papers desirable.
Whats on offer?
- 4 on 4 off 12hr shifts
- £40,000pa + £3,000 shift allowance