Posted 29d ago

Vehicle Painters

Carta & Co Pty Ltd Ingham QLD 4850

Permanent Full time
Base pay
$60,000 - $75,000

Key points we found

  • Qualified and experienced Automotive or Vehicle Painters required.
  • Duties include preparing surfaces, spray painting, and maintaining equipment.
  • Join a successful small engineering business with multiple manufacturing capabilities.

The Job Role

We are looking for a qualified and experienced Automotive or Vehicle Painters. This role is an excellent opportunity for a person with trade skills to join a successful, long standing, small engineering business with multiple manufacturing capabilities.

Duties & Responsibilities

  1. Abrasive blast and prepare metal surfaces for undercoating / priming
  2. Tape off, fill in, and sand back in preparation for painting
  3. Spray paint in enamel or 2 pac, water, and oil-based paints and primers
  4. Touch up paint jobs on repairs
  5. Spray paint spare parts
  6. Clean / maintain blast gear, plant, and tooling
  7. Clean / maintain paint gear and plant
  8. Ensure a high standard of quality

Qualifications & Requirements

  1. Experience with prepping and painting different media such as aluminum, fibreglass, steel, and wood
  2. Experience in a variety of practices and techniques related to blasting and painting
  3. Knowledge of operating general paint / blast shop equipment and tools
  4. Familiarity with executing blast / painting operations in compliance with safety policies
  5. Ability to use heavy machinery, such as forklifts and cranes would be an advantage

Salary: $60,000 - $75,000 annually

About The Company

Carta & Co Pty Ltd is the largest Australian manufacturer of Cane Transporters for the Australian Sugar Cane Industry.

Carta & Co Fabrication & Engineering is a small, locally owned company based in Ingham, with workshops in Townsville & Ingham that provides engineering, drafting, fabrication, fitting, machining, blasting & painting services. We also repair damaged transporters and fabricate spare parts and other agricultural equipment.

Join us at Carta & Co Fabrication & Engineering in supporting the sugarcane & engineering industry.

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Skills
ATTENTION TO DETAIL
Blast Equipment Operation
Familiarity with Paint Types (enamel, 2 pac, water, oil-based)
Heavy Machinery Operation
PAINTING
Painting equipment operation
PREPPING
SAFETY COMPLIANCE
SPRAY PAINTING
Surface preparation
TEAMWORK
TIME MANAGEMENT

More details
Expiring date
11 Apr 2026
Date posted
12 Mar 2026
Category
Trades & Services
Occupation
Painting, Wallpapering & Signage
Contract type
Permanent
Work type
Full time
Job mode
Onsite / Standard business hours
Industry
Manufacturing
Sector
Privately held company
Desired education level
Vocational or certificate, Bachelor's degree
Company size
11 to 50

Carta & Co Pty Ltd

11 to 50
Company size
Pay insights
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