Painter

About the Role

Painter positions perform journey-level painting work throughout the City's facilities. Duties include:

• Stripping and refinishing metal, wood, and concrete surfaces by sanding, scraping, and grinding.
• Applying coats of latex, epoxy paint, lacquer, enamel, and protectants using brushes, rollers, and spray equipment on buildings, structures, pipes, pumps, tanks, furniture, light stands, and flagpoles.
• Performing corrosion control for treatment plants and pump stations within the Public Utilities Department, Wastewater Treatment and Disposal Division.
• Providing protective coatings for industrial equipment such as pumps, valves, motors, blowers, chemical feed systems, conveyors, and screening systems.
• Preparing surfaces using sandblasting, needle guns, chemical applications, and scrapers.
• Using specialized multi-part coatings and equipment for application.
• Addressing safety issues including color coding, walkway surface repair, and non-skid applications.
• Performing conventional painting and some roofing applications.

Painter employees may be required to work evenings, weekends, and holidays. For positions in the Public Utilities Department, Wastewater Treatment and Disposal Division, employees must be Confined Space certified and pass a Confined Space physical within six months of hire.

Requirements

• Must meet ONE of the following options:
  • Successful completion of a state-accredited three-year Painter Apprenticeship Program.
  • Three years of full-time experience as a journey-level Painter, including:
    • Painting metal surfaces, buildings, and structures.
    • Preparing surfaces for painting.
    • Mixing paint chemicals, such as colors, stains, and thinners.

  Note: Experience painting ships and/or vehicles only is NOT qualifying.

• A valid California Class C Driver License is required at the time of hire.

City of San Diego employees using Out-of-Class Assignment (OCA) experience to qualify must submit written documentation signed by their appointing authority or payroll specialist, detailing the work performed, dates, and total number of qualifying OCA hours. OCA experience without the required documentation will NOT be considered.

Qualifications

Highly Desirable:

• Experience with specialized multi-part epoxies and use with HVLP airless conventional spray systems.
• Experience with concrete repair products and cement repair.
• Experience with elastomeric roofing products and their application.
• Experience with drywall taping and texturing.
• Experience with wallpaper and other wall coverings.
• Experience painting industrial equipment (e.g., pumps, valves, motors, blowers, chemical feed systems, conveyors, screening systems, and other industrial equipment).

Benefits

Eligible benefitted employees originally hired on or after July 10, 2021, will be automatically enrolled in the San Diego City Employees Retirement System (SDCERS).

Pay

Employees in job classifications represented by AFSCME Local 127 are scheduled to receive the following general wage increases:

• 3.5% effective 7/1/27
• 2% effective 7/1/28
• 2% effective 1/1/29

In addition to the scheduled general wage increases, the following equity adjustment wage increase is scheduled for Painter:

• 5% effective 1/1/29