Transportation Equipment Painters
On the Job
Transportation Equipment Painters operate machines that paint transportation equipment, including cars, buses, trains, airplanes, and boats.
Physical Demands
This career requires good eyesight and time standing, walking, or running.
Typical Work Tasks
People who work in this career often:
- Test chemical or physical characteristics of materials or products.
- Select production equipment according to product specifications.
- Select production input materials.
- Monitor equipment operation to ensure that products are not flawed.
- Clean production equipment.
- Clean work areas.
- Dispose of trash or waste materials.
- Load materials into production equipment.
- Mix ingredients to create specific finishes.
- Adjust equipment controls to regulate flow of production materials or products.
Typical Working Conditions
- Exposure to contaminants (like gases or odors).
- Exposure to hazardous conditions.
- Using your hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools, or controls.
- Wearing common protective or safety equipment such as safety shoes, glasses, gloves, hearing protection, hard hats, or life jackets.
- The importance of being accurate or exact.
- Meeting strict deadlines.
- Frequent decision-making.
- Having face-to-face discussions.
- Responsibility for outcomes and results.
- Working with a group or team.
- Working indoors in non-environmentally controlled conditions.
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