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Aircraft Painter

Tulsa, Oklahoma Job ID 2025-15723 Category Manufacturing Role Type Onsite Post Date Dec. 10, 2025
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This role is at Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company, supporting Spirit’s Commercial Business Units (“Spirit Commercial”). Spirit Commercial designs and builds commercial aerostructures, including for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, one of Boeing’s three business units and the premier manufacturer of commercial jetliners for decades. Spirit Commercial’s core products include fuselages, pylons, nacelles and wing components, with a focus on innovative composite and aluminum manufacturing solutions.

Location: Tulsa, OK

  • Move and/or obtain correct parts, materials, and tools, as necessary within the employee's assigned area as directed by management.
  • Use of all precision measuring instruments required to accomplish work assignments.
  • Capable of accessing and navigating electronic systems as required by the position program, and/or company. Company will provide training as required in a timely manner.
  • Works safely and maintains a safe work environment adhering to established company safety requirements.
  • Train, coach and/or assist fellow employees as requested or required by the company.
  • Maintain and utilize required personal certifications and qualifications as directed by the company to perform job assignments.
  • Ensure equipment and tool certification occurs per procedure.
  • Report job handicaps such as: errors in parts, procedures, tools, sequences, etc.

Other Duties:

  • Read and interpret blueprints, drawings, specifications, planning documents, sketches, engineering orders, electronic work instructions, charts, and graphs to determine the methods and sequences of operations required to support processing and painting operations.
  • Set up and operate chern-mill processing equipment to remove specified amounts of metal from sheet metal parts, and assemblies, extrusions and forgings utilizing etching solution, includes developmental. Experimental, first run and parts with non - symmetrical surfaces, radial tapers, deep draws, or complex contours.
  • Set up and operate, adjust, and regulate various types and sizes of ovens and furnaces and quenching tanks to heat treat metal parts made from aluminum, titanium, stainless steel, and other similar metals. Load on racks to minimize warpage and obtain even heat. As necessary operate hand and power moving and lifting equipment to place parts in ovens furnaces, and baths and quench.
  • Set up operate processing equipment to anodize and electro plate or clean metal parts and assemblies. Determine sequences of dips and rinses, position parts and electrodes, calculate and adjust immersion times, temperatures, and voltage amperage levels. Check and maintain processing solutions and chemicals in tanks as required.
  • Set up and operate various types of paint spraying equipment or dip, roll and brush interior, exterior prime, protective or finish coats on aircraft, automobiles, trucks, trailers, parts and assemblies.
  • Thin and mix paints and other surfacing materials.
  • Set up and operate robotic spray coating equipment by selecting and loading program tapes, masking material surfaces, mixing blend coating material and controlling spray flow rates, pressures, plume geometry and robot travel speed and pattern.
  • Apply finish coats where, difficult access and special care must be taken to avoid runs and inconsistencies of coat thickness, a baked smooth or wrinkle finish is required, assemblies require hand brushwork.
  • Operate robotic spray coating equipment to apply radar absorptive materials to surfaces.
  • Perform rework and touch-up when tests disclose rework necessary.
  • Record manufacturing data and statistics manually or with the aid of a computer or computer-based system.

Required:

  • All Candidates must pass the WorkKeys Assessment (www.workkeys.com) or provide verification that they have passed the WorkKeys Assessment. Delay in completing your WorkKeys Assessment will result in a delay in your start date. You may complete your assessment in advance of an interview.
    • IMPORTANT WorkKeys note: Any person scheduling their WorkKeys Assessment will be required to present two (2) forms of identification to be verified before their scheduled date for the WorkKeys assessment. Please click and review this provided link Acceptable Forms of ID and plan ahead by deciding which documents can be located or if need be, ordere
  • Must be willing and able to work any shift.
  • This is a union-represented position.
Preferred: 
  • Previous experience using industrial paint sprayer guns

Union:

This is a union-represented position.

Pay:  $13.00/hour, with potential to earn up to $26.88/hour in accordance with the terms of the relevant collective bargaining agreement.


Export Control Requirements:

Export Control Requirements: This position must meet export control compliance requirements. To meet export control compliance requirements, a “U.S. Person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. §120.15 is required. “U.S. Person” includes U.S. Citizen, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee.


Equal Opportunity Employer

Boeing is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

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