This occupation is discovered within the engineering and manufacturing sector throughout the marine, aviation and automotive industries. Floor finishers may fit for boat producers, refit and restore boatyards, marinas, specialist marine firms, aerospace manufacturing, restore and restoration firms and automotive producers together with ‘supercar’ producers and motorsport firms. These will be small, medium or massive companies. Floor finishers can undertake work on quite a lot of merchandise together with for instance motorised cruisers, narrowboats, crusing boats, work boats, superyachts, excessive finish autos, supercars, non-public jets and business plane. It is a core and choices apprenticeship commonplace. Apprentices can be skilled and assessed towards the core and one possibility. There are three choices: 1. Marine floor finisher 2. Aviation floor finisher 3. Automotive floor finisher
The broad goal of the occupation is for floor finishers to arrange the wood (exhausting and smooth woods), steel (ferrous and non-ferrous) or composite (FRP, FRC) hulls, superstructures, chassis and parts of boats, autos and aircrafts of various complexity and measurement. They plan their work, arrange gear and apply coatings to the ready floor utilizing specialist methods and merchandise for instance, spray, hand paint, varnish and French polish. They determine paint defects, take corrective motion, perform efficiency testing and high quality assurance actions together with using inspection gear. They perform upkeep actions on amenities and gear and full a variety of documentation. The principle variations between the three choices are these regarding dimensional scale, quantity of throughput, operational setting, supplies (automotive makes use of water-based paints, marine makes use of loads of varnishes and aerospace makes use of extra advanced substrates topic to regulatory oversight), expertise, gear and software approach.
Of their day by day work, an worker on this occupation interacts with the rapid crew corresponding to manufacturing employees, high quality assurance employees and specialist trades corresponding to engineers, boat builders, riggers, carpenters, welders and electricians. In addition they liaise with different departments recurrently, corresponding to gross sales, well being and security, human sources, audit and coaching. Floor finishers may have contact with exterior technical paint representatives, contractors, prospects and suppliers. Floor finishers work in paint preparation workshops, ending spray cubicles, tented areas, product interiors and different exterior environments. These areas home a variety of specialist instruments and gear, which may embody a upkeep space, mixing space and adjoining workshops.
An worker on this occupation can be chargeable for making certain the very best requirements are met when making ready a product or coating to the suitable remaining floor end. They need to guarantee the protection of themselves and others and the setting making certain they utilise Private Protecting Gear (PPE), perform occupational well being surveillance and cling to Management of Substances Hazardous to Well being (COSHH). They could work on their very own or a part of a crew. They need to work inside budgets, timescales and high quality requirements to fulfill buyer necessities.
Aviation paint technician
Aviation woodwork/lacquer finisher
Element paint finisher
Element painter inside parts
Marine coatings finisher
Marine french polisher
Marine painter
Marine sprayer
Marine floor finisher
Paint crew member
Paint technician
Car painter
Car sprayer
Yacht finisher
Yacht painter
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Information
K1: Traits and options of the floor ending business and the floor finisher’s function and placement throughout the business, and who floor finishers work together with in an effort to carry out their work operations.
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K2: Communication methods, their function and options, together with the benefits and downsides of every when speaking with totally different prospects and stakeholders (inside and exterior). Organisational processes and procedures concerning communication channels, methods and the way communications and their outcomes are recorded and documented.
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K3: Floor ending terminology and its that means. Makes use of of data expertise related to floor ending work operations.
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K4: Downside-solving and testing methods and strategies used to resolve floor ending issues related to their space of accountability.
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K5: Sourcing of supplies and gear, costing, pricing and budgeting ideas and figuring out and addressing discrepancies and high quality points.
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K6: Organisational insurance policies, processes and procedures for the design, planning and arrange, and supply of floor ending actions together with instruments, supplies, gear and setting.
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K7: Laws, laws, business steerage, practices and procedures that direct well being and security and environmental sustainability at work and the significance of complying with management of drugs hazardous to well being (COSHH). Private protecting gear (PPE) and respiratory protecting gear (RPE).
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K8: The requirement for private accountability and common well being surveillance and the significance of correctly adhering to disposal of hazardous waste principals making certain safety of the setting.
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K9: Methods of making certain high quality of floor ending processes and work merchandise, together with steady enterprise enchancment methods and the way they’re built-in into floor ending work processes and procedures.
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K10: Sources of data and steerage that directs floor ending work operations, sometimes together with drawings and technical specs, the place this data and steerage will be discovered and when and the place it must be used.
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K11: Mathematical methods and calculations that underpin floor ending work.
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K12: Vary and goal of instruments, supplies and gear used when organising and when performing floor ending operations, their traits, options, their secure use, motion and operation and the results of utilizing inappropriate instruments and methods for the proper floor end.
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K13: The connection between totally different substrates, supplies and complicated shapes.
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K14: Significance of precisely finishing floor ending documentation and the data that must be recorded throughout totally different levels of floor ending work operations.
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K15: Significance of restoring the work space to a tidy and secure state on completion of floor ending work operation and what this entails.
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K16: Checks, checks and inspections undertaken earlier than, throughout and after performing totally different floor ending work operations, how these are undertaken and any remedial motion required.
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K17: The widespread sorts of defects (for instance, sags, seeds, runs) and contamination results discovered at inspection and their potential causes.
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K18: Software ideas and methods for various floor ending supplies.
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K19: Fundamental operational ideas of floor ending gear and their servicing and upkeep necessities.
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K20: Significance of customer support and customer support ideas and methods.
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K21: Human elements and the way they’ll have an effect on a person’s efficiency whereas finishing up upkeep and floor ending actions.
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K22: Work at top laws and necessities for secure entry and egress from a vessel corresponding to engineering controls (handrails, guard rails, guard wires and so forth.) and PPE to be worn throughout the work at top exercise and its care and proper use (e.g. harnesses and lanyards).
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K23: Course of and security necessities for working in confined areas.
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K24: Laws and necessities to setup work platforms, staging, towers and cell elevated work platforms (MEWP) and coaching necessities to make sure secure use.
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K25: Necessities of lifting operations and lifting gear regulation (LOLER) in relation to MEWPs and harnesses.
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K26: Working practices, hazards, related dangers and the emergency preparedness when finishing up work in an operational marine setting (together with on or close to the water) together with using electrical energy instruments and necessities for PPE corresponding to life jackets.
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K27: Versatile work apply and the way marine paint operations impact the workflow and schedule of different trades to accommodate work processes and COSHH necessities corresponding to to fulfill product overcoating timeframes.
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K28: Native restrictions in relation to work operations corresponding to web site of particular scientific curiosity (SSSI) restrictions in harbours and rivers and consideration for environmental safety of watercourses.
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K29: Merchandise, methods and numerous strategies of making use of coatings by hand corresponding to roll and tip and hand varnishing.
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K30: Merchandise, methods, necessities and numerous strategies of sprucing and ending corresponding to French sprucing and gel coat ending.
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K31: Merchandise, methods and necessities for spraying massive advanced shapes, constructions and parts, together with the necessity to keep a moist edge while spraying. Group-based software strategies corresponding to a number of sprayers, pot males and spotters to securely spray hulls and enormous constructions.
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K32: Particular coatings and steel remedies utilized in aviation portray, together with sorts of end, measurement of coating thickness and the applying methods for matt and gloss finishes.
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K33: Processes used to arrange an plane for refinishing together with plane bonding, inspection methods and safety of significant parts.
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K34: Composites and substrates utilized in aviation and the preparation methods used with these supplies.
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K35: Army or civil laws as relevant to plane refinishing.
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K36: Important areas on an plane and the way these will be affected by refinishing together with Decreased Vertical Separation Minima (RVSM) necessities.
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K37: Inspection methods to examine an plane put up paint strip corresponding to inspecting for corrosion. Kinds of corrosion, therapy of corrosion and methods used for inspecting for delamination.
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K38: Processes utilized in making use of and positioning each obligatory and buyer chosen exterior markings.
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K39: Course of and security necessities for working in confined areas.
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K40: Properties of substrates associated to the automotive sector together with plastics, metals and carbon fibres. Influence of the substrate on the floor end, together with adjustments in color match and variations in methods.
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K41: Kinds of coatings utilized in automotive together with anti-chip blackouts, base coats and their traits and software methods.
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K42: The defect recording, processing and completion necessities required at automotive paint inspection levels.
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K43: Strategies used for masking out product, sorts of masking supplies, software methods.
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K44: Strategies of demasking, widespread considerations and defects arising from incorrect demasking.
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K45: Strategies, instruments, supplies and strategies utilized in sprucing and ending of automotive automobile finishes.
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K46: Kinds of spot restore. Strategies, instruments, supplies and strategies used to hold out spot repairs.
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Abilities
S1: Use communication and interpersonal methods and terminology to help interactions with colleagues, contractors, suppliers and others.
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S2: Ship applicable customer support ideas and methods, in accordance with organisational coverage and processes.
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S3: Preserve the protection of self together with others by following secure techniques of labor and complying with all related laws, laws, codes of apply and different related data and steerage.
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S4: Think about sustainability and environmental impacts when planning and performing floor ending work operations.
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S5: Comply with authorized business and producer’s steerage and methods, operational work strategies, practices, processes, ideas and procedures when endeavor totally different floor ending work operations, inside required time frames.
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S6: Choose, use, and retailer sources safely and appropriately together with instruments, supplies, gear, equipment and consumables.
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S7: Perform the proper preparation methods when working with a substrate.
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S8: Comply with high quality enchancment ideas, methods, and strategies and determine any areas for enchancment, consulting internally and externally as applicable.
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S9: Conduct required checks and checks when performing floor ending work operations.
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S10: Restore work space to a secure and tidy situation in accordance with organisational and legislative coverage and procedures.
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S11: Full data and documentation related to floor ending work operations, in accordance with necessities corresponding to legislative or regulatory.
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S12: Examine and determine floor defects and contamination points to firm and business requirements, utilizing applicable and related documentation.
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S13: Eliminate waste supplies, in accordance with secure working and environmental practices and authorized procedures.
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S14: Perform required rework utilizing authorized supplies and methods.
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S15: Carry out routine upkeep and servicing on related gear.
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S16: Take care of any issues which will current themselves inside their very own space of accountability.
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S17: Adhere to work at top laws and necessities for secure entry and egress from or round a vessel and utilise applicable PPE when working at top making certain pre-use checks, operation and upkeep actions are carried out appropriately.
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S18: Setup work platforms to necessities and present laws together with staging, towers and cell elevated work platforms (MEWP) to make sure secure use.
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S19: Perform lifting operations in accordance with lifting operations and lifting gear laws (LOLER).
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S20: Establish hazards and management their related dangers when engaged on or close to the water, utilizing methods corresponding to danger evaluation. Use emergency preparedness procedures when finishing up work in an operational marine setting (together with on or close to the water).
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S21: Adapt working practices to help marine paint operations which have an effect on the workflow. Schedule work to accommodate different trades processes and COSHH necessities corresponding to to fulfill product overcoating timeframes.
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S22: Use merchandise, methods and numerous strategies of making use of coatings by hand corresponding to roll and tip and hand varnishing.
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S23: Use the proper merchandise, methods and numerous strategies of sprucing and ending corresponding to French sprucing and gel coat ending.
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S24: Use merchandise, methods, strategies and gear for spraying advanced shapes, constructions and parts corresponding to sustaining a moist edge while spraying and team-based software strategies (a number of sprayers, pot males and spotters to securely spray hulls and enormous constructions).
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S25: Arrange spray amenities in accordance with the producer’s product knowledge sheets and differing temperature and humidity necessities when making use of coatings to wood, composite or steel vessels.
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S26: Perform masking and demasking of huge or advanced shapes, with out inflicting floor end defects throughout the demask course of.
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S27: Comply with the authorized floor dealing with procedures in place to make sure the plane is appropriately positioned within the hangar, making certain secure working techniques are in place to permit entry previous to graduation of agreed works.
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S28: Adjust to the producer’s steerage notes on particular plane varieties utilizing the Plane Upkeep Handbook, structural restore guide and procedures when making ready and ending plane substrates together with in-house high quality documentation and procedures.
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S29: Examine, determine and report floor defects, contamination and high quality points utilizing applicable and related documentation and in accordance with the producer’s and the regulators necessities.
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S30: Full related activity staging documentation to the work carried out, guarantee this has been signed for and any supplies used recorded and supply reference for technical knowledge used.
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S31: Examine an plane, recording and rectifying listed defects utilizing related documentation. Adjust to technical knowledge and measuring strategies throughout the inspection, for instance dent and buckle charts, structural restore guide and commonplace practices.
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S32: Interpret and perceive Unique Gear Producer (OEM) and buyer knowledge to use and place exterior markings, each obligatory and buyer chosen.
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S33: Use supplies, gear and methods to realize acceptable finishes on substrates corresponding to plastics, metals and composites utilized in automotive manufacture.
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S34: Apply spray coatings throughout various components of a automobile shell together with vertical, horizontal and inside points of the automobile.
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S35: Apply numerous sorts of spray coating, corresponding to base coats, lacquer coats, anti-chip.
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S36: Perform masking of product.
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S37: Demask merchandise with out inflicting floor end defects.
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S38: Choose the supplies and strategies and full sprucing and ending of auto coatings.
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Behaviours
B1: Embrace a security tradition and situational consciousness together with being hazard and danger conscious when working.
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B2: Embrace an environmentally sustainable working tradition, taking accountability for the suitable use of sources and personal actions.
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B3: Reveal dedication to high quality, business consciousness and steady enchancment.
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B4: Deal with the necessities of the shopper (inside and exterior), searching for to supply excellent customer support, assembly buyer necessities.
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B5: Work individually and as a part of a crew, speaking at totally different ranges to realize constructive work outcomes.
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B6: Deal with everybody with respect and courtesy, valuing range.
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B7: Motivated, meticulous, proactive and adaptable, with a deal with steady private growth and information sharing.
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B8: Handle personal time to finish work operations throughout the confines of job accountability.
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B9: Reveal due consideration of human elements in performing upkeep and floor ending actions.
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