Fiberglass, Patch and Inspect

Merritt Precision • Full-time • Sweetwater, Tennessee • 3m ago

Company Description

Merritt Precision manufactures highly sophisticated molds for the marine, automotive, and aerospace industry in Sweetwater, TN. As part of a Correct Craft company, Merritt Precision provides the high level of quality, service, and confidentiality that customers have come to expect. Through expanded capacity and new technologies, Merritt Precision creates great vision for our customers, transforming ideas into reality.

Job Description

Summary:

This is a critical position in the production of our high quality molds. Working successfully in our team environment is key, and the perfect candidate must have an eye for detail. Candidates will properly mix gelcoat and putties when making repairs and individuals in this position will buff and sand parts as needed.

Key Responsibilities:

Perform tasks under time sensitive deadlines
Identify and correct imperfections in the gel-coat
Sand/Buff areas as needed
Repair fiberglass molds and tooling using specialty gelcoats, buffing with wax, polish, compound, fillers, putty, and/or paste
Use hand tools that may include gel-coat spray equipment, drill, buffer, die grinder, polishing compounds, orbital sanders or other specialty tools

Qualifications

Essential:

Must be able to work in non-climate-controlled environment where ambient air temperature can exceed outside air temperature.
Must be able to wear proper safety equipment when necessary
Able to stand for extended periods of time
Experienced working with Fiberglass
Experienced working with hand and power tools
Able to squat, climb, bend, etc. as needed
Experienced using an Orbital Sander

Preferred: