Painter

Job title: Painter

Job type: full-time

Job location: The Central Alabama Veterans Healthcare System (CAVHCS), Montgomery and Tuskegee, AL

Schedule: 8 hours each day for a total of 40 hours per week

Qualifications:

The applicant must have at least 3 years’ documented experience.

Be able to perform:

• Heavy work (lifting of 50 lbs. frequently and 75 lbs. occasionally).
• Work at heights and climb ladders (Conditions of dizziness or vertigo, uncontrolled or poorly controlled insulin dependent diabetes, uncontrolled or poorly controlled seizure disorder or any condition that would interfere with alertness will be disqualifying.)
• Work in confined spaces (A history of claustrophobia, any physical limitation(s) interfering with agility or the ability to perform work in awkward and sustained postures such as severe progressive arthritis, or body size larger than the confined space opening will be disqualifying)
• Work in heat – over 100 degrees F
• Work in a noisy environment (Must be able to wear hearing protection when necessary)
• Work involving potential hazardous exposures such as asbestos, machine parts, soot, dirt, grease, chemicals, oil, and fumes.
• Ability to function safely while wearing a respirator - Work requiring an OSHA approved respirator and proper fit tested.
• Standing and bending for long periods of time

Duties:

Performs coating work using accepted coating methods, such as brushing, rolling, spraying.

Applies coating techniques to ensure a smooth decorative appearance and meeting thickness and level requirements.

Applies coating materials with any of the accepted trade devices including those designed to give special effects, for example, brushes, rollers, spray guns, and graining devices.

Prepares surfaces methods such as smoothing with pumice and rottenstone, filling, shaping, and leveling with metal and synthetic resins.

Able to make repairs and alterations to paintable exterior and interior surfaces such as walls, floors, ceilings, windows, and doors.

Apply techniques to remove wallpaper and prep surface.