About this role
Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate. or equivalent experience.
Work site environment: Confined spaces. Dusty. Hot. Noisy. Odours. Work setting: Willing to relocate.
Tasks
- Clean work area.
- Organize and maintain inventory.
- Check proper thickness of plating using micrometers, callipers or other devices.
- Clean and maintain equipment.
- Operate and control: electroplating equipment to coat metal, hot-dip metal plating equipment to galvanize metal and/or spray equipment to build up worn or damaged parts.
- Paint small items and apply touch-ups using paint brushes.
- Prepare and apply stencils, decals or other decorative items on finished products.
- Prepare and mix metallizing solutions according to formulas or specifications.
- Select appropriate paint or mix paints.
- Tend automatic metal coating machines which convey objects through a series of cleaning, rinsing and plating solutions.
- Tend or operate equipment to prepare items for application of protective or decorative coatings.
- Tend or operate equipment to spray or coat.
- Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses : First Aid Certificate.
- Forklift Operator Certification.
- Type of product: Aircraft or motor vehicles.
- Construction materials or coatings.
- General metal products.
- Ornamental ironwork.
- Surface preparation methods: Abrasive head blasting.
- Masking.
- Removing old coatings manually.
- Sandblasters.
- Water blasting.
- Type of paints or coatings: Drying oils paint.
- Metallized coatings.
- Resinous, solvent drying paints.
- Application methods: Airless gravity pump.
- Automated spray painting.
- Brush or pencil.
- Hand-held spray guns.
- Equipment and machinery experience: Automatic metal coating machinery.
- Galvanizing equipment.
- Hot-dip metal plating equipment.
- Metal spray equipment.
- Type of industry experience: Automobile and Trucking industry.
- Construction industry.
- Rail industry.
- Security and safety: Criminal record check.
- Driving record check (abstract).
- Transportation/travel information: Valid driver's licence.
- Work conditions and physical capabilities: Attention to detail.
- Bending, crouching, kneeling.
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking.
- Fast-paced environment.
- Hand-eye co-ordination.
- Handling heavy loads.
- Manual dexterity.
- Physically demanding.
- Repetitive tasks.
- Standing for extended periods.
- Own tools/equipment: Ear plugs.
- Steel-toed safety boots.
- Personal suitability: Excellent oral communication.
- Flexibility.
- Organized.
- Reliability.
- Team player.
Experience: 2 years to less than 3 years.
- Employment terms options: Morning.
- Day.
- Weekend.
- Health benefits: Health care plan.
- Support for newcomers and refugees: Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports newcomers and/or refugees.
- Support for youths: Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports youth employment.