Industrial Painter - 2nd Shift

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.

At Johnson Controls, we support our nation’s most critical facilities, the people who occupy them, and the missions they enable. Johnson Controls Federal Systems (JCFS) is a specialized team serving as a trusted partner to the federal government. We help modernize U.S. military installations, Department of Defense and other federal agency facilities to be smarter, more resilient, efficient, sustainable, and secure.

Pay: $31.79 /per hour plus 2nd Shift Differential at $2.00 per hour. (Increased 3/30)
Shift: 2nd Shift (3pm - 11:30pm)
Benefits: Begin first day of employment.
Relocation: Assistance may be available. Conditions apply
*This is a Union position

Learn more about Navy Systems York, PA Plant: Navy Systems, York PA

As an Industrial Painter , you will:

• 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.

Who We Are

The primary mission of Johnson Controls Navy Systems is to supply Chilled Water Air Conditioning, Refrigeration Systems and associated equipment to the US Navy and US Coast Guard. Johnson Controls Navy Systems is a part of the Johnson Controls Federal Systems business. Our robust, high reliability products are designed, manufactured and tested in York, PA to military and other stringent customer specifications. Most of our designs are custom engineered for the specific application

If you’d like to learn more about who we are, what we do, and the systems and products we work with please check out our “Who we are” video on Youtube to learn more. (Around 2 minutes long)

Recently, Johnson Controls has been recognized by several organizations for leadership in Environment, Sustainability and Governance, as well as innovations in smart building platforms:

Named to FORTUNE’s “Most Admired Companies” List

Corporate Knights Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World

Named to Forbes Net Zero Leaders list

CDP 2023 Climate Change 'A List '

Ranked 67 on the Drucker Institute’s list of best-managed companies in America

Forbes Best Employers for Diversity list.

Newsweek  America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity

Ethisphere 2024 World's Most Ethical Companies list for the 17th time

Newsweek America’s Greatest Workplaces for Women in 2024

Named to Newsweek America’s Greatest Workplaces for Veterans 2024 / 2025listing

Named to Forbes America’s Best Employers for Veterans 2024

· Named one of the top military friendly employers by military.com.

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

Division: JCFS (Johnson Controls Federal Systems)
Job: 1515

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