Boat Painter

About The Role

Join a fast-growing team building some of the most advanced high-performance boats in the world. As a Boat Painter, you will play a crucial role in ensuring that every product leaves our facility with an outstanding finish and exceptional quality. Working in a dynamic and ambitious environment, you will contribute directly to the final appearance and customer experience of our boats.

Your Core Responsibilities

• Prepare carbon fiber components for painting, including cleaning, sanding, masking, and surface preparation.
• Apply primers, fillers, and paint coatings using spray-painting techniques while ensuring compliance with quality standards.
• Perform finishing work, including sanding, wet sanding, polishing, and touch-ups to achieve a flawless surface finish.
• Inspect painted surfaces and ensure all products meet established quality requirements.
• Maintain painting equipment and tools to ensure safe and efficient operation.
• Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of painting processes and best practices.
• Follow all company guidelines, quality requirements, and health & safety procedures.

To Be Successful in This Role

You are a detail-oriented and quality-focused professional who takes pride in delivering exceptional results. You thrive in a fast-paced environment, adapt quickly to changing priorities, and enjoy working as part of a highly motivated team. Most importantly, you are excited by innovative products and enjoy contributing to the creation of world-class boats.

Required Qualifications

• Experience using air spray guns for priming and painting in an industrial manufacturing environment.
• Experience with surface preparation, including masking, cleaning, degreasing, and paint finishing.
• Ability to perform detailed touch-up work when required.
• Ability to work safely in an environment involving dust particles, paint products, and other chemicals while wearing full PPE.
• Physically capable of standing for extended periods and performing hands-on work, including working in confined or tight spaces.
• Good communication skills in English, both spoken and written.
• Willingness to work on a two-shift schedule (8-hour morning and afternoon shifts).
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to delivering a high-quality surface finish.
• Understanding health & safety requirements, facility needs, and equipment requirements within a professional paint shop.
• Previous experience in automotive, marine, aerospace, or other high-end industrial painting environments preferred.
• Experience setting up, improving, or optimizing painting processes.
• Experience working with composite or carbon fiber components.

What We Offer

• The opportunity to work with cutting-edge products in a growing and innovative company.
• A highly skilled and ambitious team with short decision-making paths.
• A dynamic work environment where your expertise directly impacts the final product.
• Opportunities to contribute to process improvements and continuous development.

Form of employment: Full-time with initial 6 month probation period

Start date: Asap

Location/base: Rotebro

Team: Painting

Reporting to: Painting Production Area Manager

Why people love working at Candela?

At Candela, we’re not just building electric vessels - we’re creating a whole new category of clean, efficient waterborne transport. You get the chance to work with cutting-edge technology, solving complex challenges, and seeing the results in action - sometimes literally, when we organize test rides for our newcomers! We’re a diverse and ambitious team of over 50 nationalities, united by a revolutionary spirit and kindness. That means we work hard, but always with humility and while having fun - whether it’s solving a manufacturing challenge, improving processes, or cheering each other on during Candela Months, our year-round calendar of bonding activities and events.

We’re office-first but not office-only. We believe collaboration is most powerful when we build together, in person - but we also trust our team to work in ways that fit their life. At Candela, you’ll find a place where bold ideas are welcomed, great people are celebrated, and the ride is just as important as the destination.

Recruitment process:

We aim to keep our recruitment process as straightforward and efficient as possible. As an international company with English as our corporate language, the entire process is conducted in English. Therefore, please submit your application in our corporate language as well. Kindly note that we cannot process applications sent via email due to GDPR so please use our career website for you application.

Due to the holiday season, feedback regarding your application will be provided in August

We welcome the opportunity to meet you!