1st Shift Painting and Shipping Technician

Non-Exempt/Hourly

Starting pay is commensurate with experience

About Philippi-Hagenbuch, Inc.: Philippi-Hagenbuch, Inc. (PHIL) is a global leader of customized off-highway truck haulage enhancements including: Autogate® Tailgates, Water Tanks, Truck Bodies, Trailers, Load Ejectors and Sideboards. PHIL was founded in Peoria, IL in 1969 and has continued to operate as both a privately owned and team-centered company since. We are very passionate about the success of our associates. We strive to provide everyone that comes to work for PHIL with a lifelong career instead of just a job and we support the training and development of each one of our team members to help them realize and achieve their highest potential. PHIL offers competitive wages and a solid benefits package consisting of medical, dental, vision, paid vacation, sick time and personal days. PHIL also has a 401k plan, paid company holidays, offers educational assistance programs and other great benefits.

About the Position: We are looking for Painter & Shipping Technician to join our team. This individual will work in conjunction with the Production Supervisor and Purchasing Manager to ensure orders are correct and load orders according to priority. In addition, this position will also prep, paint, and finish orders ensuring specifications, quantity, and quality of orders are correct. This role also works to verify inventory, identify losses, and maintain an organized layout and safe work environment.

Responsibilities:

• Pulls individual parts and gathers orders per the packing slip
• Preps all product to begin painting process, i.e., grinding, wiping down, cleaning
• Removes weld berries from finished product
• Coats product with Xylene and primer to protect the quality of paint
• Operates an airless sprayer to paint product per customer need
• Visually inspects painted product to ensure quality and that product has been painted/finished to Company standards
• Uses Company provided tablet to take photographs of product packed and ready to ship for customer service quality standards.
• Palletizes parts to ship to customer
• Conducts physical inventories, e.g. checks content of shipping product against packing slip for verifying stock and identifying losses, signs off on packing slip and routes to direct supervisor for final sign-off
• Prepares orders for UPS daily and outbound freight as needed
• Alerts direct supervisor of any discrepancies on Engineering prints
• Assists in documenting any adjustments to Engineering prints
• Completes material handling functions as needed, e.g. bringing materials into the building, operating a fork truck
• Operates an overhead crane
• Reads and interprets Bill of Materials (BOMs) and Engineering prints to complete work to design specifications
• Reports any inventory shortfalls to direct supervisor
• Completes daily pickup of area and remains responsible for cleanliness of work area
• Maintains all equipment and tools
• Adheres to all safety protocols including always wearing proper Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
• Assists in conducting periodic physical inventories of the entire Production Department
• Uses a barcode scanning system to clock in and out of jobs
• Assists other PHIL and Welarco personnel as requested
• Remains willing and able to cross-train and float into other positions of the Production Department as requested

Experience Required:

• High school diploma or general education requirement
• Preferred experience with air enamel gun
• 2 years' experience operating similar paining equipment (air enamel gun)
• Availability to work standard hours and overtime as needed for painting parts after hours (i.e. shift ends at 3:20PM - must be willing and able to work until 5PM if needed)

Philippi-Hagenbuch/Welarco Fabrications is an Equal Opportunity Employer.