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Job overview
The Painter carries out assigned tasks according to work instructions and standard operating procedures while maintaining safety and quality. Team members receive training and coaching, and may be expected to attain relevant certification. The role emphasizes identifying safety and quality issues, contributing improvement ideas, supporting colleagues, and following applicable legal, regulatory, and company policies.
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Full job description
GKN Aerospace is ‘s werelds meest toonaangevende leverancier binnen de vliegtuigindustrie. Met 32 productielocaties in 12 landen bedienen we meer dan 90% van ‘s werelds vliegtuig- en motorfabrikanten en een omzet behaald van £3.6 miljard in 2025. Wij ontwerpen en produceren innovatieve slimme ruimtevaartsystemen en componenten. Elke keer dat je per vliegtuig reist, is het waarschijnlijk dat GKN je op weg helpt.
We zijn op zoek naar mensen die een verschil willen maken, getalenteerde medewerkers met de vaardigheden en passies om het beste te worden in wat ze doen.
Job Summary
The Painter role is responsible for carrying out the required standard activities of their assigned tasks, in full compliance to the Work Instruction and/or Standard Operating Procedure, and without compromise to their own, and colleagues, safety.
Where required to achieve certified status, the team member will be taught how to undertake their tasks safely, and to a high quality level, through a rigorous Job Instruction process, and will be expected to attain the relevant certification, as measured by the competence matrix and specified in the sites BMS/QMS.
The team member will be fully supported by their Team Leader (TL), who will enable their training, coaching and quickly respond to them if they find any off-standard / quality issues.
They will be expected to actively identify safety concerns (Hazard identification), make problems immediately known to their TL (Pull the Andon), and raise improvement ideas to solve problems (Kaizen).
They will be part of a team that will collectively work on creating a Great Place To Work through a culture of continuous improvement, safe working and open dialogue.
Job Responsibilities
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Contribute to their team in creating a Great Place to Work by role-modelling safety-first, a Kaizen mind-set, and supporting their colleagues
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Hold themselves, and fellow team members accountable to embody the GKNA culture principles
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Undertake all of their tasks in compliance with the standard work and their training, and make any problems; safety, quality, or other, immediately known to their TL
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Exemplify a safety-first mindset and follow all GKN Aerospace Health, Safety and Environmental policies and standards
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Understand their teams People, Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cash and Cost Key Performance Indicators and their contribution to them
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Become certified at the Lean Foundation level and implement at least 1 Kaizen per month
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Support the team and TL in problem solving, contributing ideas based upon own experience of their tasks
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Be an active member of the team, promoting collective engagement with each other
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Comply with all legal and regulatory requirements:
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The companys Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action policies
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Compliance and Ethics Policy on Contracting with the United States Government in all areas of responsibility involving direct and indirect contracting with the United States Government
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Export Control regulations
Job Qualifications
Required :
- A high-school (18 years old) level of education, certified at the relevant national level.
Preferred :
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GKN Aerospace Experience
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Committed to the rigorous adherence to standardized work.
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Good standard of a language relevant for the site
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An effective communicator
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A track record of Kaizen implementation
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Experience working within a Lean Operating Model / Production System
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Aerospace experience
Diversity Inclusion and Belonging (DIB)
As a global engineering company, innovation is what differentiates us from our competitors and is central to our success.
A balance of cultures, ethnicities and genders help bring new ideas and creativity to GKN. We need people of different backgrounds, with different skills and perspectives to spark originality, imagination and creativeness in our teams around the world.
GKN is an equal opportunity employer.
We treat all our employees and applicants fairly and are committed to ensuring that there is no discrimination or harassment against any employee or qualified applicant on the grounds of age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
How this job compares
Set against the 438 open Painter jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$21–26/hr182 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 438 open Painter jobs across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
- Oshkosh Corporation20 open
- Tradesmen International, Inc.16 open
- CARMAX15 open
- Experience
- Painter postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 3 years (186 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 175 of the 438 open Painter jobs (40%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 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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