Paint Shop Manager

Powerhouse
Come join a team where People make the difference! As a part of Marmon Holdings, Inc., a highly decentralized organization, we rely heavily on people with the aptitude, attitude, and entrepreneurial spirit to drive our success, and we're committed to attracting and retaining top talent.
This position is responsible for managing all paint shop employees. The position also orders all parts, supplies and materials needed in the paint shop.
Essential Duties and Responsibilites

• Managing workflow: Planning, organizing, and directing the work of painters and mechanical employees
• Ensuring quality: Ensuring that painting, manufacturing instructions and safety standards are followed
• Managing resources: Ensuring that the required tools and materials are available
• Evaluating performance: Conducting performance evaluations and recommending hiring and disciplinary actions
• Collaborating: Collaborating with other skilled crafts and interacting with customers
• Complying with policies: Complying with company policies and procedures, and fulfilling legal health and safety duties
• Developing reports: Developing and maintaining management tools and reports to monitor performance
• Estimating and budgeting for material and labor costs

Qualifications

• The qualifications listed below represent the credentials necessary to perform the essential duties of this position. To be successful in this position, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience

• High School Diploma or equivalent and painting certification required. Vocational diploma and experience in a manufacturing environment which includes all aspects of industrial painting of locomotives and assembly of locomotive subassemblies is highly preferred.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Must be highly detail-orientated and possess excellent organization skills.
• Superior communication skills; must be comfortable engaging in a variety of different communicative modes (verbal, non-verbal and written) and be attuned to others through strong active listening skills.
• Must be able to perform the physical requirements of working on locomotives.
• Ability to assess multiple tasks and develop a plan to complete them in a timely manner.
• Must have the ability to work well with others as part of a team.
• Ability to maintain and operate all industrial painting equipment.
• Ability to train employees on how to safely operate all industrial painting equipment and other equipment.

Language Skills

• Ability to read and interpret documents. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.

Mathematical Skills

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals

Reasoning Ability

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

Work Environment

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• The employee works in a plant environment. While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be exposed to moving mechanical parts, airborne particles or fumes when in the plant environment. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Physical Demands

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand and walk. The employee is occasionally required to sit; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear; and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move heavy weights. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

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Following receipt of a conditional offer of employment, candidates will be required to complete additional job-related screening processes as permitted or required by applicable law.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to their membership in any protected class. If you require any reasonable accommodation to complete your application or any part of the recruiting process, please email your request to , and please be sure to include the title and the location of the position for which you are applying.