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Powder Coater - Swing Shift

  2025-06-04     East Side Plating     Portland,OR  
Description:

East Side Plating is hiring multiple positions for a Powder Coater for our swing shift operations. The Powder Coater applies powder-coat paint to parts.

Responsibilities:

  • Sets-up and maintains spray booth and coating equipment
  • Assists in directing racking personnel to shift priorities as needed to maintain throughput
  • Operates powder application gun/equipment to apply powder coating to parts being painted
  • Makes recommendations for improvements and may assist in designing and manufacturing racks, fixtures, and masking used in the painting process
  • Tracks and records work order information in computer
  • Follows safety guidelines, achieves and maintains quality and productivity standards, maintains an acceptable dependability level, and must not pose risk to self or others

Qualifications:

  • Ability to perform visual inspection on parts prior to coating to prevent potential quality issues
  • Ability to perform visual and coating measurement thickness inspection on coated parts to ensure parts meet customer specifications
  • Able to work while standing during your shift
  • Ability to lift parts and push carts up to 50 lbs.
  • Must be able to read, write, and communicate in English with a demonstrated ability to follow written and oral instructions, and work well with others
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced team environment and receive direction from others

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Previous powder-coat or liquid coat production application experience
  • Previous experience working with/inspecting cosmetic surfaces

Shift:

Swing: Mon - Fri, 2:30 PM to 11:00PM

Must be able to adapt to schedule change and occasional Saturdays

Wage: $22 per hour with a $1.65 shift differential for swing

East Side Plating offers a competitive wage, medical, dental, and vision coverage, as well as PTO, paid holidays and a 401K plan.

Pre-employment background check and drug screen required.

About East Side Plating:

Imagine working on the front lines of customer satisfaction. As one of the largest plating, powder coating and finishing process companies in the Northwest, East Side Plating has been satisfying customers across a broad spectrum of industries since 1946. At East Side, we don't make our own products we add value to our customer's products through over 30 different finishes and processes. You'll see parts that we process from the dentist office to the hospital, from Ford trucks to Kenworth trucks and just about everything in-between.

Our continued success depends on finding and hiring the best and the brightest employees and we know that a dynamic, experienced team of exceptional employees is essential to our continued growth.

If you have a heart for service and a desire to be part of a winning team, please apply today - you never know, maybe you'll get the chance to see parts you helped create rolling down the road someday.


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