Paint Shop Management Seminar

Real Shops – Real Painters

Vic Duppenthaler

A Does the perfect paint shop exist after the first job?

You’ve built the perfect paint shop.，Now what?

What imperfections exist with facilities?

A paint shop is nothing without a painter. How do you build and keep the perfect painter?

B Facilities Determine How You Approach Your JobsSite Issues and Logistics of a Boat Yard

Haul-out & Off-load

How do you support your paint shop for each job?

Work bays vs. open area

In the real world many shops must use large open buildings.

Containment is more effective and less costly if you have set up individual work spaces

C If You Build it, He Will Come…How do you find the perfect painter?

You may not find him unless you build him.

Look at potential for growth

Willingness to learn and manage

It takes training to build perfection

D Your Most Important Asset

Lead Painter/Technician Operates all equipment

Determines with manager technique to be used

Determines with manager fellow employees to be used on the project

Lead MUST buy into the process, people, budget, and schedule prior to starting the project.Estimating Requires Coordination

E Estimating Requires Coordination

Involve the lead painter in estimating

Visit future projects

Review each other’s input for estimating

Get more accurate estimates

Make the budgets more often

F Quality Control Takes CoordinationStart with a QC template, fit to each job

Quality goals are set during estimating faze

Create stop/check points

Go, no go authority

Lead painter shows work to manager, manager buys into quality

G Train or DieThere is no better way to keep good people than to make them better people

Certificates for product usage

Wages paid during training

Offer reimbursement for qualified training sessions

H What Makes Your Shop THE Place to Work?

Wages linked to performance and most important, continued learning

Benefits – don’t give your people reason to look elsewhere

Meaningful work

Involvement from start to finish

New products, projects, and techniques

High end work promotes pride

Regional examples

I Safety First = People First

Your commitment to safety shows your people that you value them

A paint shop can’t afford to loose time to accidents

J Flexibility for Your People and for YouAll work and no play…

Make it work for your people to spend time with their families & children

They will return the favor when you need them

K End Result is a Robust and Efficient ShopDevelopment of a paint crew team

Consistent Quality

Pride in each project

Efficiency for larger projects

Employees that stay with the company