Composites Painter in SHEPSHED, United Kingdom

Composites Painter

Location : SHEPSHED, LEICS, United Kingdom

Job Family : Manufacturing

Job Type : Regular

Posted : Oct 15, 2024

Job ID : 52411

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We are a global leader in the research, design, integration, manufacture, certification, and lifetime service of flight control, hydraulic, fuel and inerting, fluid conveyance, thermal management, lubrication, and pneumatic systems and components for aerospace and other high-technology markets. We support the world’s aircraft and aero engine manufacturers, providing a century of experience and innovation for commercial and military aircraft.

Joining our team means, you are helping to deliver our purpose of ‘Enabling Engineering Breakthroughs that Lead to a Better Tomorrow. A career at Parker Meggitt offers boundless potential for professional and personal growth. You will work alongside the brightest minds in the world, help develop innovative technology and products, and contribute to our company’s goal of solving the world’s greatest engineering challenges.

We have succeeded in employing the top talent in the industry by focusing our hiring efforts on the individual, not the job description. If you are an inquisitive thinker with great ideas and a desire to succeed, we will find the perfect spot for you on our team.

Summary

Great opportunity arises to join our team for a Composite Painter. In this role you will be fulfilling the main duties – surface preparation, masking, application of paints by brush and air spray techniques and drying procedures. These techniques will be utilised on military anti ice and civil radomes requiring spraying on internal and external surfaces. Highly desirable experience would be from Automotive Paint Spraying, Paint Spraying, or more desirable, Aerospace.

Responsibilities

• Able to read/interpret company and Customer Engineering drawings, process specifications and work instructions.

• Surface Preparation – prepare component surfaces using Vapour blasters, Orbital sanders and manual sanding techniques.

• To effectively mask components prior to paint application using masking tapes and paper.

• Paint mixing – to mix paint by volume and viscosity to approved documentation and specifications.

• Paint application – to apply paint by brush and spray techniques to process documentation and specifications.

Qualifications

• A Secondary Certificate/High School Diploma or equivalent combination of relevant education and work experience that will allow successful performance of job expectations.

• Vocational training, apprenticeships or the equivalent experience in related field.

• Paint Spraying, either automotive or aerospace.

• Minimum of 3 years professional experience to show.

• Surface preparation .

What we offer

Parker Meggitt is proud to offer a competitive total rewards framework designed with our colleagues’ health, wealth and well-being in mind to help our employees balance a successful career. Our competitive package will include:

• Early finish on Fridays.

• Career progression opportunities.

• Buy & sell holiday.

• Company shares scheme.

• Pension up to 10% company contribution.

• Employee Assistance Program for Health & Wellbeing.

• Employee Perkz – offering our employees discounts on a huge variety of goods and services.

• Income Protection.

• Employee Resource Groups.

• Volunteering day off.

  Parker Meggitt is an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to developing an inclusive and diverse working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and beliefs define who we are as a business and that building a culture of respect and appreciation will give everyone the opportunity to recognise their full potential.