Paint Kitchen Technician - Peterborough, Canada - CB Canada

Description

Flex-N-Gate is a leading manufacturer and supplier of components for the automotive industry, recently ranked 10^th of the 150 Top North American Suppliers in "Automotive News." A growing and vital company, Flex-N-Gate provides a great opportunity for hard-working and skilled individuals.

Great Opportunity to learn the Paint Line in the Automotive Sector. 3 month training program. The job entails Preparing paint by adding solvents to reduce strength and supplies the paint line. Our paint line is first in class in the industry.

• Prepares paint by adding solvents to raw paint and ensure proper viscosity;
• Flushes and cleans paint systems to run multiple colours;
• Receives paint, solvents shipments and supplies and stores in proper place and rotates stock;
• Collects reclaimed solvents and ensure that it is pumped into waste totes and shipped out;
• Supplies and maintains 26 permanent paints system, clears, ad pro and catalysts;
• Interchanges piggable systems which use multiple colours;
• Records paint load into a log recording system;
• Records purge solvent usage and reclaimed solvent usage on daily usage sheet;
• Performs daily viscosity checks and records on viscosity check sheet
• Orders solvents, filters and paint kitchen supplies as required;
• Changes all paint system filters;
• Performs weekly system flushes as assigned by paint management:
• Ensures all pumps and agitators are running and well-oiled;
• Maintains lift trucks by using a daily check list;
• Changes totes and ensures grounding straps are used when transferring paint from drum to drum, and using lift trucks and agitators ;
• Checks paint schedule to ensure that required paint is available;
• Reports any health and safety issues to supervisors and or process techs;
• Empties all solvent drums before putting them on skids for removal;
• Ensures all pails are properly labeled to avoid confusion of contents; (WHMIS labels);

• Seeks a team approach perspective when required;
• Good communication, painting, safety conscious and organizational skills;
• Ability to lift heavy drums of paint and to learn different shades of paint.