Production Associate - Paint Prep

Join the Special-Lite team to help us drive growth through relationships as strong and dependable as our products!

As a Production Associate - Paint Prep, you will perform a variety of duties related to the preparation of our custom doors and entryways to be painted. Duties include:

• Inspecting doors, frames, and accessory components for cosmetic defects
• Sanding and performing cosmetic repairs as needed
• Hanging doors, frames and accessory components in preparation for priming and painting
• Mixing paint according to shop sheet specifications for prepared doors, frames and accessory components.
• Examining finished product to verify conformance to specification
• Cleaning and maintaining equipment and work area

Position Requirements:

• High school diploma or GED.
• Ability to read, comprehend and carry-out instructions in written, oral, and/or diagram form.
• Lift 70lbs with assistance.
• Complete all work within our safety guidelines.
• Ability to work as part of a team.
• Knowledge of safe operation of basic hand and power tools.
• Intermediate mechanical comprehension and abilities
• Skills to measure and perform mathematical computations, including fractions, percentages, ratios and proportions.
• Ability to read a tape measure down to a 1/32".
• Work and train in other departments as needed.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous experience with Bondo and Sanding
• Previous experience with spraying wet paint
• Previous manufacturing, assembly, or construction experience.
• Blueprint or template reading a plus
• Bilingual in Spanish and English a plus

Physical Requirements:

• Frequently required to use hands and fingers to handle, feel or operate office equipment, and reach with hands and arms.
• Frequently required to talk and hear.
• Required to stand and walk.
• Required to lift, push, pull and/or move up to 70-pounds with assistance.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:

• Safety glasses are always required on the production floor.
• Hearing protection is required in designated areas.

Our Story:

Special-Lite manufactures engineered architectural products, which includes commercial entrance systems, interior aluminum (Type II) framing with swing or sliding aluminum framed doors, and FRP restroom partitions. Our interior and exterior complete entrance system products are fiberglass or aluminum flush doors with many door face texture options including wood grain, aluminum monumental (stile & rail) doors, fiberglass and aluminum framing. Our engineered, made to order architectural products are used in new construction and renovation projects for educational, commercial, institutional, industrial and municipal applications. The company was founded in 1971 and pioneered the use of fiberglass reinforced polyester (FRP) material for door skins in the early 1980's, and today is the largest volume producer of commercial FRP doors in the United States.

Special-Lite will make reasonable accommodations to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Employment at Special-Lite:

The ability to work a full shift, come to work on time, work overtime as needed and the ability to work according to the necessary schedule to meet job requirements with or without reasonable accommodation is an essential function of this position.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, disability, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, sexual orientation, age, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.