Painter

Position Responsibilities

• Perform general painting for new construction, remodel projects, renovations, and facility redecoration.
• Paint and redecorate offices, wards, corridors, dining halls, living quarters, shop buildings, and other hospital areas.
• Paint and refinish furniture, wood, and metal surfaces, including desks, cabinets, chairs, operating room equipment, and laundry equipment.
• Prepare surfaces using spackling, joint compound, filling, shaping, sanding, and pre-coating agents.
• Prepare coating materials by tinting, toning, matching, blending, and mixing additives.
• Install vinyl wall coverings and hang wallpaper.
• Tape and bed walls and surfaces as required.
• Perform glazing, window caulking, glass cutting, and glass installation.
• Cut stencils, paint signs, blend and mix colors.
• Auxiliary with street marking and related facility painting tasks.

Required Qualifications

• Hands-on painting experience in commercial, institutional, healthcare, government, or facilities environments.
• Current OSHA certification.
• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Experience with interior and exterior painting, surface prep, coating application, refinishing, and wall coverings.
• Ability to mix, match, tint, and apply coating materials.
• Ability to use painting tools, equipment, ladders, and related safety equipment appropriately.
• Ability to follow daily work assignments from VA personnel and coordinate with the COR.
• Ability to complete daily service logs and timecards.
• Ability to comply with VA facility safety, privacy, information security, and rules-of-behavior training requirements.