Aircraft Painter

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