Paint Technician

Landing Gear Technologies is an FAA Certified Repair Station specializing in the repair and overhaul of aircraft landing gears and components. We believe a company can only be as good as the employees that stand behind it, and in this constantly growing industry, we are always seeking talented and dedicated individuals to join our team.

Landing Gear Technologies offers a competitive range of employee benefits including Health, Dental, and Supplemental insurance, Company paid life insurance, Paid Major Holidays, Paid Vacation and Sick Days, and more.

Painter Technicians report to the Lead Painter Technician for their assigned department and are responsible for assuring all assigned tasks are executed correctly and in accordance with FAR, current manufacturers’ instructions, and this manual as applicable. Painter Technicians are also responsible for ascertaining the shop equipment and tooling used during the assigned tasks, making sure they are in a serviceable working condition, and maintain workstations in a clean and orderly manner. They are to ensure the technical data is correct and current pertaining to the task being performed and that required work records are properly executed.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintain paint equipment, mix paint, paint control.
• Perform stop-off at required areas per paint schematics, apply primer, and apply top coat to landing gear.
• Maintain paint booth and environmental logs.
• Perform surface preparation of component for final inspection, including sealing of bushings, stenciling, and application of corrosion preventatives.
• Execute minor polishing on major components for final inspection.
• Ability to independently perform all paint functions in a landing gear overhaul facility.
• Ability to interpret blueprints.
• Ability to use all necessary close tolerance measurement instruments with proficiency.
• Properly executing the duties assigned.
• Performing maintenance and alteration tasks, including machining operations, on civil aviation articles in accordance with the current technical data provided in the manufacturers’ Instructions for Continued Airworthiness, Services Bulletins, Service Letters, Airworthiness Directives, government and industry standard practices, and other data acceptable to or approved by the FAA / EASA.
• Ensuring that before performing their assigned task that they are thoroughly familiar with all tools and equipment, including inspection aids, used within their assigned area of responsibility.