Painter, Facilities Operations & Maintenance

About the Role

The Painter provides journeyman level skills to perform painting. This role is responsible for preparing and finishing a wide range of surfaces using various painting techniques to maintain and enhance the appearance and durability of campus facilities, equipment, and furnishings.

Core Responsibilities

• Prepares surfaces for painting, and applying paints to machinery, equipment, furniture, and interiors and/or buildings by spray gun or brush.
• Provides painter skills to include erecting or rigging scaffolds; scrapes, sandpapers, primes, or seals surfaces prior to painting; mixes, matches, and applies paint, varnishes, shellacs, enamels, and other finishes; and covers surfaces and furniture to protect against paint.
• Checks condition of woodwork; removes spattered paint upon job completion; and cleans and cares for brushes, spray guns, and other equipment.
• Reports needs for carpentry repairs.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Vocational training, apprenticeships or the equivalent experience in a related field.
• Three (3) years of related work experience.
• This position may require the ability to maintain the security and integrity of UT San Antonio and its infrastructure per Texas EO-GA-48.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Verbal and Written Communication
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Paint Mixing, Matching and Tinting
• Varnishes, Enamels, Shellacs, and Other Finishes
• Surface Preparation for Painting
• Paint Equipment Cleaning and Maintenance
• Identification and Reporting of Carpentry Repairs
• Safety Procedures

Working Conditions

• Indoor and Outdoor Environments.
• Exposure to mechanical and electrical hazards, hazardous chemicals, high pressure water and air systems, high speed equipment, confined spaces, and heights.
• Exposure to variable Texas weather conditions and/or physical hazards such as working in elevated and confined spaces; working in attics, sub-floors, machine rooms, on roofs, and other operational areas. Exposure may be prolonged.
• Exposure to various mechanical, electrical, laboratories, and other university spaces.
• Exposure to variety of construction and physical plant hazards including medium voltages (15KV), confined space, elevated heights, dust & dampness, high noise levels, outside weather, and energized equipment & systems.
• Exposure to potential occupational hazards including toxic, biological, and chemical hazards within certain laboratory spaces.
• Exposure to elevated levels of noise.
• Required to wear Personal Protective Equipment when needed, including steel toe or non-slip shoes, eye protection, hard hat, back belt, body harness, biological protective gear, ear muffs or plugs, respirator, and arc flash protection.
• Must wear and properly maintain uniforms.
• Required to be on stand-by call status, carrying a pager, cell phone, or two-way radio as assigned, and respond to after-hours emergency calls.
• Required to be on stand-by call status for overtime, evenings, after hours, odd hours, shift work, weekends, and/or holidays as needed. Flexibility in scheduling may be required.

Physical Demands

• Medium work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
• Regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to feel, reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear.
• Frequently required to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, reach, stand, walk, push, pull, lift, finger, grasp, feel, and/or use repetitive motions.
• Ability to climb ladders and stairways and work on building rooftops of high elevation.
• Ability to work in confined spaces such as ceiling, under floor crawlspaces, and manholes.
• Repetitive motions that may include the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
• Reaching overhead, at or below shoulder level.
• Operating machinery and/or power tools.
• Required to have visual acuity to perform an activity such as: operating machines such as lathes, drill presses, power saws and mills where the seeing job is at or within arm's reach; performing mechanical or skilled trades tasks of a non-repetitive nature such as ones by carpenters, technicians, service people, plumbers, painters, mechanics, etc.

Pay

$38,000 annualized.

Schedule

Full Time. This position will work primarily on campus. Required to be on stand-by call status for overtime, evenings, after hours, odd hours, shift work, weekends, and/or holidays as needed. Flexibility in scheduling may be required.