Our client is looking for a skilled Vehicle Spray Painter to join their bodyshop team. This role involves preparing, painting, and refinishing vehicles — applying primers, basecoats, topcoats — and ensuring a high-quality finish, colour match, and a presentation standard that meets manufacturer or client expectations.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare vehicle surfaces for painting: sanding, masking, priming, filling, and ensuring surfaces are clean, smooth and ready for paint.
• Mix paint to match manufacturer colour codes and specifications; use spray-guns and painting systems (booth work) to apply primer, basecoat and final coats.
• Perform finishing operations: polishing, buffing, quality checks, and final inspections to ensure paintwork is smooth, even, and meets quality standards.
• Operate and maintain paint shop equipment (spray booths, spray guns, mixers), ensuring all tools and work environments meet health & safety regulations.
• Work collaboratively with panel beaters/body technicians to coordinate repair and paint schedules, ensuring timely completion of vehicle repair & refinishing jobs.

Required Skills & Experience

• Proven experience as a Spray Painter / Vehicle Painter / Paint Technician within a bodyshop or accident repair environment.
• Good knowledge of paint types, refinishing products, paint mixing, colour matching and vehicle paint techniques.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to deliver high-quality work consistently.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision, as part of a team, and handle a varied workload under time constraints.
• Awareness of health & safety practices and safe handling of paint materials and equipment.

Desirable Qualifications / Attributes

• Previous experience across a range of vehicle makes/models (cars, vans, possibly light commercial vehicles) to handle diverse workloads.

Essential Language / Immigration Requirement

• Must already hold — or be willing to obtain — a UKVI-recognised IELTS certificate (or equivalent proof of English language proficiency acceptable for UK work eligibility).