ROLE TYPE: Permanent
HOURS: 39 hours per week
PAY: £12.50 – £14.50 an hour dependent on experience
Due to the Company’s ongoing success and growth, we have an exciting new position as a Wet Paint Sprayer/General Operative. This role requires a team player, with extensive hand spraying experience with primers, basecoats, metallics and lacquers. As well as having 1 and 2k paint mixing and component preparation knowledge; ensuring high-quality standards are met whilst maintaining safety protocols.
- A minimum of 3 years’ experience, spraying all types of paints, onto automotive components of various sizes.
- Ability to spray high volume components to a consistently high-quality standard, throughout a shift.
- Knowledge of all types of substrates and their preparation prior to painting.
- Understanding of spray equipment, from stripping and cleaning spray guns to spray-booth maintenance.
- Able to independently set up and adjust spray gun settings as per works instructions, and competently spray specific jobs unsupervised.
- Very good attention to detail, spraying high-end cosmetic automotive parts.
- Ability to meet deadlines and respond positively to pressure.
- Able to spray components continuously throughout your shift to meet customer demand.
- Can work speedily with no detriment to quality, managing time well with no loss of output.
- To understand and work to detailed Process Card, works instructions.
- Maintain equipment by performing routine checks.
- Keep environment and equipment clean and in good working order.
- Ensuring PPE is worn at all times. Whilst carrying out daily maintenance of Air fed masks (including air pressure settings).
- Ensure compliance with safety regulations and proper handling of hazardous materials.
- General operative duties as required by the business
- Excellent work life balance
- Company pension
- Competitive salary
- Company benefits/rewards scheme
Frederick Cooper (Birmingham) Ltd is recognised as a service-driven, cost-effective and friendly, Wet Paint Spraying & Powder Coating Business. We finish components for a wide variety of Industries, covering Automotive (customers include Aston Martin, Bentley, Bugatti, JLR, McLaren, Rolls Royce amongst others), General Industrial, Engineering, Drinks (Dispense), and Medical and have a very strong reputation in all sectors.
We provide our customers with end-to-end bespoke finishing solutions, including component preparation, paint application and post application, finishing processes, which includes polishing and/or printing. Our teams are used to dealing with volumes of products, from 5 million parts per year down to one or two parts per day for high-end projects.
We have multiple coating lines, booths and wet spray rooms, meaning we can offer our customers an agile service, and react swiftly to last-minute fluctuations in scheduling and priorities. Frederick Cooper is ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 45001:2018 accredited.
