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Form of workJob Title: Paint Technician
Location: Walsall, West Midlands
Compensation: Competitive + £1000 bonus + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF56854
At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Paint Technician at our Walsall site.
The role
As a Paint Technician, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You'll be part of a team which prepare and paint automotive components and complete vehicles.
Day-to-day, you'll cover the prepping of vehicle body parts which includes removing dents, repairing scratches, polishing, and refinishing. It will also include paint repair work to include touch ups and blow ins with a big part of the role respraying vehicle parts.
- Prepare components for final paint finish
- Full vehicle re-sprays
- Fault finding and rectification of paint defects
This position involves manual work. This could include lifting, bending, using tools or standing for extended periods of time.
This role is full time, 40-hours per week and is based on site at Walsall.
Essential experience of the Paint Technician
- Proven paint refinishing experience in the automotive refinishing industry
- Ability to follow paint processes
- High attention to detail
- Ability to work effectively under own initiative, or as part of a team to achieve desired results
- Maintaining and cleaning equipment
Qualifications for the Paint Technician
We value difference and don't have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held.
What we offer
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
- Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
- 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing date: 16/04/2024
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