Apprentice - Paint

The Brock Group provides specialty craft and maintenance services to key industries across North America. We are dedicated to offering the safest and highest quality service and solutions. We view ourselves as partners with our customers, our employees and the communities in which we operate. Our performance-driven culture is led by having and developing the best people, the most efficient processes and the right tools for the job.

An Industrial Paint Apprentice is responsible for assisting in all aspects of the preparation and application of industrial coatings to a high standard of workmanship using a variety of tools and materials.

• Promote, demonstrate and instill Brock’s Bsafe and Bbest culture in all aspects of the business
• Comply with all manufacturer’s specifications
• Work closely with assigned Mentor as per SSW Program
• Follow all Brock, Contractor’s, and governmental safety requirements
• Perform work in accordance with Contractor Specifications
• Follow the applicable Brock, Contractor, and governmental safety requirements
• Learn to prepare and clean surfaces to be painted/ coated using methods including scraping, sanding, media-blasting, wet/ dry, hydro-blasting
• With supervision, match specified colours by using premixed paints, or mixing colour and pigment, oil, and thinning and drying additives.
• Learn to apply paint, varnish, stain, enamel or lacquer to colour, decorate or protect from corrosion or deterioration, surfaces of buildings, towers and other structures using conventional spray painting equipment.
• Use brushes, rollers or spray guns to apply liquid coatings such as paint, stain or varnish to surfaces of wood, metal, brick, concrete, plaster, stucco or stone.
• Clean and maintain equipment
• Assure proper equipment is being used for the specified tasks.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Meet Brock’s Fit For Duty Program
• Ability to meet and maintain customer requirements for site access
• Work in an indoor and outdoor environment including field, yard, shop locations, and office.
• Necessary Personal Protective Equipment is required.
  Travel as required
• Working at heights
• Must be able to work in all types of environments, extreme heat or cold
• Able to work in confined spaces
• Must have required tools
• Must have transportation to and from the work location

• Ability to communicate effectively with team and supervisor
• Abiity to understand and follow directions
• Knowledge of craft and industry

• High School or equivalent (Level I)
• 1 year scaffold experience, preferred (Level II)
• 2 years’ scaffold experience, preferred (Level III)
• Adherence to regional and local requirements (level I – IV)

Fed Ex TN

Location of Job: US:

TN:

Memphis

Shift:

Exempt:
No

Work Type:
Full Time

Working Conditions:

ORIENTATION
- Must be able to successfully pass Brock and/or Safety Council Site Specific Orientation requirements.

HEAVY WORK
- Lifting up to 50 pounds of force from the floor to the waist and 35 pounds of force from the waist to above shoulder.

CLIMBING
- Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, and the like, to elevations in excess of 100 feet, to maintain three-point contact at all times.

LADDERS
- Using vertical ladders Frequently up to 100 feet
- Activity exists up to 60% of the work shift.

STAIRS & RAMPS
- Using stairs or ramps:
Occasionally up to 100 feet
- Activity exists up to 40% of the work shift.

BALANCING
- Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing, crouching, on unprotected elevated surfaces using fall protection equipment; or maintaining body equilibrium when performing scaffold construction at elevations using…