Decorative Paint Training Program for New Type of Hangar

This project was the development of a complete 200-hour classroom and lab training program for decorative painters working in a new type of paint hangar. Hangars at the facility had historically used stackers – platforms that go vertically from ground to heights above the aircraft – to access and paint the exterior of the airplane. Stackers have their own methods of use, safety precautions, procedures, and so on.

A new hangar being built would instead be using boom and scissor lifts to paint. The principles of painting would be the same, but the way painters went about painting would change entirely. Using lifts was entirely different from stackers. So this training program focused on the specifics of this method of painting. The painters who were used to stackers would need to learn how to maneuver and use lifts instead, and new painters would need to learn how to use the lifts as well.

I went to another paint facility to research a system they had in place already that was functioning efficiently. I gathered available information and documented all the processes for each type of lift, and the lift procedures for each section of the airplane, all related safety and associated procedures, then went back and developed the classroom training program, which covered two different job roles.

Deliverables included a front-end analysis, research, and all classroom and lab materials, photos, graphics, and videos.

NOTE: All images from existing online sources.