Hiring for Industrial Painters in Taylors, SC pays up to $21.15/hr.
Job Description
The Industrial Painter prepares, coats, and finishes steel products, structural components, and equipment in a steel mill environment. This role focuses on applying protective and decorative coatings to prevent corrosion, enhance durability, and meet precise customer specifications. The Industrial Painter operates spray equipment, performs thorough surface preparation, conducts quality inspections, and consistently follows safety and environmental regulations while working in a heavy industrial setting.
Responsibilities
Prepare steel surfaces for painting by cleaning, grinding, sanding, blasting, masking, and degreasing to ensure proper adhesion of coatings.
Mix paints, primers, epoxies, and industrial coatings according to manufacturer specifications and job requirements.
Apply coatings using airless spray systems, conventional spray guns, brushes, and rollers to achieve uniform coverage and desired finish.
Measure coating thickness and inspect painted surfaces to verify that quality standards and customer specifications are met.
Read and interpret work orders, blueprints, and customer specifications to plan and execute painting tasks accurately.
Operate overhead cranes, forklifts, and other material handling equipment as required to move and position steel components safely.
Maintain paint booths, spray equipment, hoses, pumps, and related tools by performing routine cleaning and basic preventive maintenance.
Perform touch-up painting and repair coating defects as needed to ensure finished products meet quality and appearance requirements.
Follow all safety procedures and environmental regulations while working in a heavy industrial steel mill setting.
Collaborate with production team members to coordinate workflow and meet production schedules across multiple shifts.
Essential Skills
Proven experience with industrial painting in a heavy manufacturing or steel mill environment.
Proficiency in using airless spray systems and conventional spray guns for applying industrial coatings.
Strong skills in surface preparation techniques, including cleaning, grinding, sanding, blasting, masking, and degreasing.
Ability to mix paints, primers, epoxies, and industrial coatings accurately following manufacturer specifications.
Competence in measuring coating thickness and inspecting finished surfaces to ensure consistent quality.
Ability to read and interpret work orders, blueprints, and customer specifications.
Experience operating overhead cranes, forklifts, or similar material handling equipment.
Capability to maintain paint booths, spray equipment, hoses, pumps, and related tools in good working condition.
Commitment to following safety protocols and environmental regulations in a hot, heavy industrial work environment.
Additional Skills & Qualifications
Experience working across multiple shifts, including days, nights, and weekends in a production environment.
Ability to perform touch-up work and repair coating defects with attention to detail.
Strong teamwork and communication skills to coordinate with production and maintenance personnel.
Flexibility to adapt to changing production schedules and extended shift hours as needed.
Why Work Here?
This opportunity offers consistent full-time hours in a production-focused environment with multiple shift options, including day, night, and weekend schedules. Team members benefit from shift differentials that reward work during off-peak hours, as well as paid hours on weekend shifts. The workplace emphasizes safety, reliability, and quality, providing the chance to develop specialized industrial painting skills on large steel structures while contributing to essential manufacturing operations.
Work Environment
This role is based in a hot, heavy industrial steel mill environment where large steel products and structural components are processed and coated. Work is performed around paint booths and production equipment, using spray systems, overhead cranes, forklifts, and other material handling tools. Shifts are structured as day (typically 6:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., currently 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.), night (typically 4:30 p.m. to 3:00 a.m., currently 6:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.) with a shift differential, and weekend (6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Friday through Sunday, paid for 40 hours) with an additional differential. The environment requires adherence to safety protocols, use of appropriate personal protective equipment, and comfort working in hot conditions around heavy machinery and industrial processes.
Job Type & Location
This is a Permanent position based out of Taylors, SC.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $36000.00 - $44000.00/yr.
Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.
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Workplace Type
This is a fully onsite position in Taylors,SC.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Sep 15, 2026.
About Aerotek
Aerotek® Inc. provides staffing and services solutions in manufacturing, logistics, construction, aviation, facilities and maintenance. We provide the expertise, solutions and people required to rise to the challenges of North American industry. Headquartered in Hanover, Md., Aerotek operates a unified network of over 200 offices across North America, supporting more than 18,000 clients each year. Aerotek is an Allegis Group company, the global leader in workforce and business solutions. To learn more, visit: Aerotek.com | 1-888-AEROTEK.
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.
San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance:
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, for all positions located in the city and county of San Francisco, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Massachusetts Lie Detector:
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI):
We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our hiring process, including sourcing, screening, and evaluating candidates. AI helps assess applications and qualifications, but final decisions are made by our hiring team. By applying, you acknowledge and agree that your application may be reviewed using AI tools.
