CAREERS

• Assess Damage: You'll meticulously inspect vehicles to identify all dents, scratches, and structural damage.
• Bodywork Magic: Using your skills and specialized tools, you'll repair structural damage, remove dents, and replace damaged body panels.
• Prepping for Paint: You'll meticulously prepare surfaces for painting, ensuring a smooth and flawless finish. 
• Quality Control: You'll have a keen eye for detail, ensuring all repairs meet the highest quality standards before returning the vehicle to the customer.

• Keen Eye for Detail: You'll spot every imperfection, ensuring a flawless finish that matches the manufacturer's standards.
• Hands-on Skills: A mastery of working with hand and power tools is essential for shaping, welding, and repairing all types of body panels.
• Material Knowledge: Understanding the properties of different metals, plastics, and composites is key to selecting the right repair techniques.
• Safety Awareness: Working with paints, chemicals, and power tools requires a commitment to following safety protocols to protect yourself and others.

• Analyze Damage: You'll meticulously examine vehicles to assess the extent of collision damage, identifying all necessary repairs.
• Estimate Repair Costs: Using your knowledge of parts pricing, labor rates, and industry standards, you'll create detailed cost estimates for each repair.
• Communicate with Customers: You'll explain the repairs needed, answer customer questions clearly, and ensure they understand the repair process and cost.
• Work with Insurance Companies: You'll collaborate with insurance adjusters to negotiate repair costs and ensure coverage aligns with the estimate.
• Maintain Accurate Records: You'll meticulously document estimates, repairs, and customer interactions to ensure accurate record-keeping for the shop.

• Eagle Eye: You have a keen eye for detail and can meticulously assess vehicle damage from minor scratches to major structural repairs.
• Math Wizard: You're comfortable with numbers and can accurately calculate parts, labor, and paint costs to create precise repair estimates.
• Blueprint Buddy: You can interpret repair procedures, decipher body diagrams, and understand the technical aspects of collision repair.
• Customer Champion: You can clearly explain repair processes and costs to customers, building trust and rapport.
• Tech Talk Translator: You can effectively communicate with technicians, understanding their assessments and translating them into clear estimates for clients.

Job Duties / Responsibilities

Below are tasks a Paint Technician is typically responsible for:

Phase Duties

Preparation & Pre‑Paint • Inspect surfaces for damage, rust, defects, contamination

• Clean, degrease, remove old coatings or coatings failures

• Sanding, abrading, masking, taping off adjacent areas

• Apply primers, sealers, or anti‐corrosion treatments

• Mask or cover components that shouldn’t be painted

• Mix and prepare paint, thinner, catalysts, and additives

• Interpret work orders, specifications, color codes, or prints

Paint / Coating Application • Operate spray guns, rollers, brushes, electrostatic or HVLP equipment

• Apply base coats, top coats, clear coats, and specialty coatings

• Blend color transitions (feathering, panel blending)

• Monitor application for consistency, proper film thickness, and curing parameters

• Adjust parameters (pressure, flow, viscosity, spray patterns) as needed

Finishing & Quality Control • Inspect paint for defects (runs, sags, orange peel, dust nibs)

• Wet sanding, buffing, polishing, or compounding to final finish

• Touch up small defects or transitions

• Verify color match and visual consistency

• Conduct final inspection before release

Equipment & Maintenance • Clean and maintain spray guns, booths, filters, pumps, hosing

• Flush lines when changing colors

• Perform preventive maintenance on painting equipment

• Maintain inventory of paints, solvents, consumables

• Calibrate measurement / monitoring devices (e.g., film thickness gauges)

Safety, Compliance & Housekeeping • Wear and maintain personal protective equipment (PPE) — respirators, gloves, coveralls, eye protection

• Follow safety, environmental, and regulatory rules (e.g. hazardous waste, VOC limits, OSHA standards)

• Properly dispose of waste solvents, paint leftovers, and chemical containers

• Maintain clean, organized work area and adhere to 5S or similar standards

• Adhere to company SOPs and OEM / factory finishing requirements

• Keep records of work done, materials used, and job times

Coordination, Communication & Miscellaneous • Coordinate with body repair, assembly, or finishing teams

• Communicate job status, issues, or deviations

• Assist in estimates of labor and material usage

• Train or mentor junior/co‑op staff or helpers

• Attend meetings, review job release sheets, and accept job assignments

• Other duties as assigned