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Utility Painter - Weld Shop

USA Waste and Recycling

Position Summary:

The Utility Painter in the Weld Shop is responsible for preparing, priming, and painting the structure's steel or fabricated metal parts using sprayers, rollers, and/or brushes. This position is also responsible for ensuring surfaces are free of rust, scale, and welsppater while maintaining equipment and adhering to safety standards in a weld shop environment.

Your Role:

• Clean steel surfaces to ensure paint adhesion
• Apply industrial primers and topcoats on steel components
• Mask surfaces, mix coatings, maintain spraying equipment, and clean the painting area/equipment after use.
• Wear proper PPE and comply with safety regulations, ensuring proper ventilation during coaring operations.
• Assist with loading/unloading materials and moving finished products in the area.
• Participate in all required Company meetings, including weekly safety meetings.
• Maintains reasonable, regular, punctual attendance consistent with Company policies, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), and other federal, state, and local standards.
• Adapts to changing duties, as required, based on business needs.

Your Skills:

• Well organized and can manage time well.
• Dependable and punctual
• Customer service skills
• Time management skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• A service-driven and accountable disposition.

Requirements

• Painting experience
• Industrial or manufacturing painting experience is preferred

This Position Features:

• Family-Oriented Environment
• Excellent Benefits and Bonus Potential

Physical Demands:

Listed below are key points regarding the job's environmental demands and work environment. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.

• Required to use motor coordination with arm, hand, finger, and leg dexterity.
• Required to exert physical effort in handling objects more or less than 40 pounds frequently.
• Will be exposed to a physical environment, which involves dirt, odors, noise, or similar elements, for most of the workday.
• Clarity of vision
• Local travel

Our Story

USA Waste is at the forefront of waste hauling and processing, innovating at every step to deliver safe, efficient, and sustainable residential and commercial services. What began with a single truck has grown into a 10-company and 2,000-person workforce operating across five states, all united by a shared commitment to service, innovation, and environmental responsibility.

From building the country's largest state-of-the-art recycling facility to powering our buildings with solar energy and fueling our fleet with all-American natural gas, we continuously invest in smarter solutions for our customers, our communities, and our planet.

Our story began in 1974 when founder Guy "Sonny" Antonacci and his wife, Mary Ann, launched Somers Sanitation in their hometown of Somers, Connecticut. Today, three generations of family leadership, supported by a talented and dedicated team, continue to drive our companies forward. While our fleet, facilities, and services have grown significantly, we remain grounded in the same principle that started it all: delivering exceptional service through innovation.

Together, we're taking big leaps to remain at the forefront of sustainability and operational excellence.

Some see waste. We see possibilities.

Join a team that's building the future of sustainable waste solutions.

USA Waste and Recycling, Inc. EEO Statement: The Company is committed to and supports equal employment opportunity and affirmative action to all employees and applicants. Equal employment opportunity means equal treatment of employees and applicants without regard to the following legally-protected characteristics: race, color, religion, creed, sex (gender identity), pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, ancestry, age, medical condition, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), veteran status, physical or mental disability status or any other legally-protected status.