Lead Painting Engineer

NACE or BGAS certified candidates should have knowledge of :-

• Surface Preparation: Dry abrasive blasting, Hand & Power Tool cleaning, Pickling & Passivation.
• Coating Systems : Liquid Epoxy Coating, Thermal Sprayed Alu, Internal Lining, Zinc Based Coating.
• Method of Paint Application: Airless/Conventional spraying, Stripe coating, Brush & Roller Application etc.
• Testing of Prepared surface: Surface contamination - Test- Presence of Salts & Chlorides, Dust Level measurement on blasted surface, Anchor Profile by Testex Tape, Moisture, Oil & Grease, Holiday/Pinhole detection, Coating thickness- WFT/DFT, Adhesion Test- X cut/ cross Hatch, Blotter test for compressed air quality.
  Coating: Inspection of coating faults such as Blisters, Blooming, Chalking, Cracking, Sagging, Run, Tear, Dry Spray, Flaking, Holidays, Lifting, Orange peel, Pinholes, Wrinkling, and Opacity defects etc.
• Equipments and Piping Painting/ coating: Dry Film Thickness- Electromagnetic Gauge, Wet Film Thickness- Wet Film Gauge (Tooth Gauge), Adhesion Test-Dolly pull off gauge (ASTM D 4541), Tape pulling (Cross Hatch & X Cut), Chemical Resistance Test- MEK wiping, Check Profile height- Testex tape & Calibrated Dial micrometre.