Product Painter
Valencia, CAJob$23.41–34.86/hrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago
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Job overview
The Product Painter prepares product surfaces by repairing defects, sanding, cleaning, and applying paint. The role includes masking parts, mixing coatings, operating spray equipment and curing ovens, and performing paint touch-ups. The position requires at least four years of recent painting or preparation experience in aerospace, automotive, or manufacturing, along with English literacy and respirator clearance and fit testing.
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Full job description
About ITT:
ITT Inc. (NYSE: ITT) is a diversified global leading manufacturer of highly engineered critical components and customized technology solutions serving the flow, aerospace and defense, transportation, industrial, and energy markets. Through operational execution, innovation, and disciplined capital deployment, including strategic acquisitions such as SPX FLOW, ITT partners with its customers to deliver enduring solutions to the key industries that underpin our modern way of life.
Headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, ITT has a market cap of roughly $20 billion and employs more than 15,000 people across 40 countries and serves customers in approximately 125 countries. Following the acquisition of SPX FLOW, the company is expected to generate $5.4 billion in annual revenue.
Our businesses are organized in three distinct segments, each based around our core engineering DNA:
Flow Technologies: A global leader in, providing a broad portfolio of pumps, valves, mixing and agitation equipment, heat transfer, homogenizers, separation, water and wastewater treatment, and engineered process solutions.Our leading brands include the iconic Goulds Pumps (with more than 175 years of history), Anhydro, APV, Bornemann, Bran+Luebbe, C'treat, Engineered Valves, Gerstenberg Schröder, Habonim, Johnson Pump, Lightnin, Philadelphia, Plenty, PRO Cast, Rheinhütte, Seital Separation, Stelzer, Svanehøj, Tigerholm, Uutechnic, VIDAR, Waukesha Cherry-Burrell.
Motion Technologies: A global leader in brake pads (ICE and electrified brake pads) and shock absorbers (energy absorption solutions) for transportation applications. Our leading brands include Friction Technologies, KONI and Axtone.
Connect and Control Technologies: A leader in critical applications for the aerospace, defense and industrial markets, including harsh environment connectors and control components. Our leading brands include ITT Cannon, Enidine, Aerospace Controls and kSARIA.
Position Summary
The Product Painter performs preparation work prior to painting, such as repairing surface defects sanding and cleaning. Then The Equipment Operator paints parts to completion.
Essential Responsibilities
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Applies masking tape or other material over parts and areas that are not to be coated.
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Mix paints and catalyst prior to applying, pouring coating liquid into pressure pot and connects gun to air hose.
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Regulates the width and pressure of spray according to knowledge of painting technique and compliance spraying the work surface to apply prime or finish coat.
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Cleans spraying equipment with solvent using proper personal protection and maintains a clean and safe work environment.
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Required to operate oven to cure and dry, as well as perform paint touch up.
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Cleans grease and dirt from product using various products depending on the situation.
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Fills, grinds, and sans repaired surfaces, using power tools and hand tools.
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Fills depressions with body filler and may file dings to remove burrs and rough spots to attain smooth surface.
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May prime or paint surfaces after performing body repair.
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Visually examines and feels surface of work piece to achieve required results.
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Performs other work as assigned.
Position Requirements
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4 or more years of recent experience in a paint preparation, painting, sanding and scuffing in the aerospace, automotive field, or manufacturing.
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Knowledge of commonly used safety concepts, practices, and procedures within field
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Ability to read English such as specifications and instructions - such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
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Good Attention to details
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High school diploma, GED or equivalent
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Must be able to read, write and understand English and follow verbal and written instructions accurately.
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Medically cleared to wear a respirator.
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Must be fit tested for a respirator.
Equal Pay Act Statement
We aim to pay our 'ITT'ers' fairly and competitively in the locations that they live and work. Pay-for-performance is a principle that we believe in, and employees are rewarded based not only on 'what' they accomplish, but also on 'how' they reflect ITT's values. ITT offers a competitive salary and robust total rewards package, such as health insurance, 401(k), short and long-term disability, paid time off, growth and developmental opportunities, and other incentive compensation programs. Specific benefits are dependent upon whether or not the position is part of a collective-bargaining agreement. The salary offered to a candidate is based several factors such as candidate experience and qualifications, location, as well as market and business considerations.
Equal Pay Act Range
$23.41 - $34.86
How this job compares
Set against the 421 open Painter jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$23.41–34.86/hr
- US median$21–26/hr170 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $29.14/hr, is 25% above the US median midpoint ($23/hr) — in the top quarter of Painter hourly ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 23 open Painter jobs in California and 421 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Essel3 open
- ABM Industries2 open
- ASM Global2 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience — more than three in four Painter postings that state a minimum ask for (median 2 years, across 177 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 168 of the 421 open Painter jobs (40%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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