An Automotive Refinishing Technician is a person who paints and refinishes automobiles, trucks, and buses whether it's a result of a collision, restoration work or a custom-design paint job. An Automotive Refinishing Technician is a nationally designated trade under the Inter-provincial Red Seal program. (Find out about Red Seal in the Trades Lingo section.)

What do these workers do?

Handle paint. Automotive Refinishing Technicians are responsible for calculating the amount of paint required for a job, mixing paint to exactly match existing colours, and blending paint to its correct thickness.

Using a spray gun to apply both the primer and final coats of paint.

Read the full Automotive Painter (Automotive Refinishing Technician) Profile (58kb pdf).

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