Industrial Painter
Johnson Controls · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · Posted Jul 2, 2026
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Job Description
We are seeking an Industrial Painter (2nd Shift) to join our federal team at our York, PA location. We keep the Navy cool. Literally. Our team custom designs, develops, and manufactures chilled water HVAC and refrigeration equipment for Navy vessels around the world. This role consists of performing duties to spray and finish paint parts, and medium to large complex, specially engineered product units, systems and affix data plates.
Pay: $31.79
Shift: 1st
Benefits: Begin first day of employment.
Relocation: Assistance may be available. Conditions apply.
Union: This is a Union position.
Responsibilities
- Paint in booth, on floor, or product, ladders, and scaffolds. Work indoors or outdoors.
- Working from drawings, customer orders, process sheets, specifications, paint manufacturer instructions.
- Cleans, prepares surfaces to be painted, chip, slag, mask as required.
- Mixes paint to proper viscosity, measure, add epoxy powders, and thins down as required.
- Erect canvas shelter around units.
- Spray paint various primers, enamels, epoxies, protective compounds.
- Clean, wipe up excess paint, remove masking, visually check for runs, shadows, improper coverage, touch up, check paint thickness.
- Clean, maintain spray gun, and paint system.
- Uses hand, powered hand tools, paint gauge, spray painting, viscosity measuring, and appropriate material handling equipment.
Required Qualifications
- Over 1 and up to 2 or more years of industrial or automotive painting experience; spray, brush, finish, paint parts, etc of specially engineered product systems, equipment, and units.
- Ability to perform moderate physical effort working continuously with light weight or frequently with average weight materials when manipulating spray gun, hand paint materials, cleaning surfaces.
- Ability to follow safety precautions necessary to prevent injury to others.
- Ability to work in somewhat disagreeable conditions with varying degrees of exposure to paint, thinner, fumes, dirt, rust to the extent of being objectionable.
- Exposure to incapacitating accident, working under crane held unit, climbing on ladder and crawling atop unit.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working with MIL-Specs (military specifications).
Preferred Education
- Read, write, add subtract decimals, fractions, simple use of process sheets, proportion materials.
Benefits
- Benefits begin first day of employment.
- Relocation assistance may be available under applicable conditions.
- Union position.
Johnson Controls is an equal employment opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information, please view EEO is the Law. If you are an individual with a disability and you require an accommodation during the application process, please visit www.johnsoncontrols.com/careers.
Division: JCFS (Johnson Controls Federal Systems)
Job: 1594