Job Title: Spray Technician - Colour Matcher
Location: Swindon
Salary: £25,000 per annum plus benefits
Sector: Laboratory / Engineering / Manufacturing
Our client requires a Colour Matcher to work within different environments within the plant, including laboratory, production areas and spray rooms, where a flexible approach will be required as each of the areas represent a requirement for the Colour Matcher to adopt different skill sets.
Colour Matcher Main Duties:
- Evaluate in-house manufactured paint samples making adjustments with the use of pigments and other colourants to achieve a recognised colour standard matching previous production batches.
- operate different equipment, including laboratory test and evaluation devices, bench mixers, manual and automatic spray equipment
- application of paint with the use of a conventional hand spray gun or with the use of a paint robot
- adjust the larger production batch, where they will be required to operate manufacturing equipment including paint mixing dispersers and tanks.
- work in accordance with existing NPAE Standard Operations, where there will be a requirement to review previous paint adjustment documentation, record their progress with regard any adjustments made to the paint, and complete customer sub-mission documentation.
Colour Matcher Candidate Requirements:
- At least two years experience of working within a similar environment
- Must be a good communicator and listener where they will be called upon to discuss and interpret instructions with regard to colour direction from within NPAE and from the customer.
- Requires an element of manual handling, where lifting, pushing and pulling of various loads and weights is a requirement.
- Required to demonstrate a good level of mathematical numeracy where the role will require the Colour Matcher can equate a laboratory-based adjustment into a pro-rata batch adjustment where the degree of accuracy is critical.
- To use in-house IT systems, where data entry and operating colour evaluation software systems is a requirement.