Union St John MI Painter

Detroit, Michigan

Responsibilities

• Coordinates, schedules, and performs painting, varnishing, and staining to decorate and protect interior and exterior surfaces, equipment, and furniture.
• Assigns painters to complete tasks and provides direction, guidance, and instruction to newer employees.
• Ensures all installations conform to specifications and regulations.
• Maintains sufficient inventory of paint, supplies, scrapers, brushes, pans, and other materials.
• Receives and reviews work orders for priority status and designated time schedules.
• Estimates time, material, and cost requirements; requisitions materials and supplies.
• Prepares surfaces for painting by removing old paint, washing, scraping, sanding, patching holes, cracks, and joints.
• Moves and rearranges furniture, spreads canvas, and erects scaffolding.
• Selects premixed paints or prepares paints by thinning and blending.
• Hangs wallpaper, measures wall space, cuts wallpaper to size, and applies it to walls.
• Loads and unloads equipment, fills and empties paint containers, and inspects jobs prior to completion.
• Operates electric sanding machines, parking lot stripers, and uses hand tools such as scrapers, putty knives, tape measures, razor blades, paint brushes, and rollers.
• Maintains records and documents related to corrective maintenance activities, including mixing instructions, sketches, and blueprints.
• Completes work orders in a timely, legible manner to maintain meaningful equipment histories.
• Responds to emergency calls promptly.
• Applies cost-effective measures to improve efficiency and support cost containment while delivering high-quality service.
• Provides customer service consistent with hospital policy.
• Keeps work area clean, orderly, and safe; ensures proper care of tools, equipment, and supplies.
• Demonstrates safe work practices, follows safety rules, and participates in organizational and department safety programs.
• Improves patient safety by understanding and applying patient safety goals to prevent preventable deaths or injuries.

Requirements

• High School diploma or equivalent (required); related trade school education (preferred).
• Three to five years of experience as a professional painter (required); four years in a hospital setting (preferred).

Skills

• Effective written and oral communication skills consistent with mission and values.
• Ability to operate related power equipment.
• Critical thinking skills and decisive judgment to work with minimal supervision.
• Ability to work in a stressful environment.