Maintenance Painter - Plant Maintenance Non-Union

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS AND CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Applies cost-effective measures in utilization of time and supplies.
• Available to Director of Facilities for emergency response to hospital situations.
• Creates special effects by applying paint.
• Fills nail holes, cracks and joints with putty plaster or other filler.
• Maintain professional growth and development for job related skills and techniques through educational programs, seminars, workshops, and experience on the job.
• Must perform any or all of the following: cut stencils and stencil surfaces with lettering or decorations, paint signs on such surfaces as cloth and bulletin boards.
• Must perform other duties as required.
• Paints surfaces, using brushes, spray gun or paint roller.
• Performs assigned tasks with a constant concern for safety.
• Place cloth or canvas over floors and furniture to protect them from spattered paint.
• Scrapes, wire brushes or blowtorch to prepare surfaces for painting.
• Selects premixed paints or prepares paint to match specified colors by blending and mixing required proportions of pigment, oil and thinning and drying substances.
• Simulates wood grain, marble, brick or tile effects.
• Smooth surfaces, using sandpaper, wire brushes or steel wool and removes old paint from surfaces, using paint remover.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls; and reach with hands and arms. The employee frequently is required to climb or balance. The employee is occasionally required to walk, sit, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.

Minimum (Required):
High School diploma or GED

Preferred (Not required):
Trade or vocational school graduate

Minimum (Required):

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals
• Five years' experience as a painter.

The hourly salary rate range for this position is $29.00 - $45.20. When extending an offer of employment, the University of Southern California Arcadia Hospital considers factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the candidate's work experience, education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, federal, State, and local laws, contractual stipulations, grant funding, as well as external market and organizational considerations.

Applies coats of paint, varnish, stains, enamels or lacquer to decorate and protect interior and exterior surfaces, trimmings and fixtures of the hospital, using paintbrushes, rollers, scrapers and blowtorches.