**Job Title: Lead Painter** **Job Description** As a lead painter, you will be responsible for the painting department for window and door frames. Performing painting duties such as filling, smoothing, and repairing each product's surface, mixing the coating liquids, and spraying each layer according to specifications. To ensure success as a lead painter, you should have excellent hand-eye coordination, a good knowledge of paint-mixing techniques, and strong attention to detail. A top-class painter should be able to produce even, hard-wearing coatings that exactly match the colors and finishes requested. You will oversee personnel and be responsible for assignments for the painting department. You will be responsible for training and performance of personnel in the department, ensuring production, performance, and quality standards are consistently met. Your duties will include preparing surfaces for spray painting by sanding, patching, and sealing cracks and holes, scraping, and smoothing surfaces. You will select, mix paint, and match colors where exact matching is required. You will apply paint to window and door surfaces, clean painting tools and equipment, apply masking tape and coverings over areas that are not being sprayed, select and attach the correct spray nozzle to create the desired spray pattern, spray machines, products, and surface areas using industry techniques, clean spray nozzles and other spraying equipment after each spray job, and inspect and assess spray coatings after the paint has dried. Performs other duties as assigned. **Hard Skills** + Painting + Paint-mixing techniques + Color matching + Spray painting + Surface preparation **Soft Skills** + Attention to detail + Hand-eye coordination + Leadership + Training + Performance management **Work Site** This is a fully on-site position in Oxnard, California. **Work Environment** Manufacturing of door frames and windows. Loud environment, there is welding, cutting, fabricating and painting. **About Aerotek:** We know that finding work is hard, and finding meaningful work is harder. Aerotek connects 180,000+ light industrial and skilled trades workers with 14,000+ employers each year, helping our workers navigate an evolving labor market and find jobs that meets their goals, skills and interests. Since 1983, we have provided a variety of career opportunities across North American industry – from short-term assignments at Fortune 500 companies where you can build your skills, to long-term opportunities where you can play a vital role solving for companies’ construction, manufacturing and maintenance challenges. Our 1,500+ experienced recruiters across 250+ offices work relentlessly to put our workforce in a position to thrive. Let us rise to meet your challenges and put our people-are everything spirit to the test as your career continues to grow. Aerotek offers weekly pay, employee benefits including medical, dental & vision, life insurance, health advocacy and employee assistance programs, a 401(k) plan, and employee discounts. The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.