Lead Painter

Lead Painter

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Company:
Kaminski Construction

Location: Eugene, Oregon, with travel to project sites in surrounding communities

Job Type: Full-time, W-2 Employee

Pay: $26.00-$32.00 per hour USD

Schedule: Monday Thursday, typically 7:00 a.m.5:30 p.m. Hours may vary based on project needs.

Kaminski Construction is seeking an experienced Lead Painter to perform high-quality interior and exterior painting while providing day-to-day leadership to painting crew members on residential construction, repair, and renovation projects.

This is a hands-on lead position. The Lead Painter will work alongside the crew while helping plan daily activities, coordinate materials and equipment, maintain quality standards, promote safe work practices, and keep assigned painting work progressing efficiently.

The ideal candidate has strong professional painting experience, takes pride in quality workmanship, pays close attention to detail, communicates effectively, and can provide clear direction and guidance to other crew members.

• Perform professional interior and exterior painting on residential structures and other surfaces.
• Lead and coordinate the day-to-day activities of painters and other crew members assigned to painting work.
• Review project plans, instructions, specifications, and surfaces to determine preparation requirements, materials, application methods, and work sequence.
• Help plan daily work assignments and communicate priorities and expectations to crew members.
• Prepare job sites by protecting floors, fixtures, furnishings, landscaping, and other surfaces as appropriate.
• Prepare walls, ceilings, trim, siding, and other surfaces by cleaning, scraping, sanding, caulking, patching, filling holes and cracks, and removing loose or deteriorated coatings.
• Select and prepare appropriate paints, primers, stains, varnishes, sealers, and other coatings based on the surface and project requirements.
• Mix and match coatings as needed to achieve the appropriate color, consistency, and finish.
• Apply paint and other finishes using brushes, rollers, sprayers, and other appropriate tools and equipment.
• Perform detailed cutting, masking, trim work, touch-ups, and finish work to maintain professional-quality results.
• Inspect work throughout the project and after completion for coverage, consistency, appearance, and overall quality.
• Identify preparation, coating, material, or job-site issues and work with project leadership to develop practical solutions.
• Estimate quantities of paint, coatings, and other materials needed for assigned work.
• Help coordinate materials, tools, ladders, scaffolding, sprayers, and other equipment required for the job.
• Monitor progress and communicate schedule, material, quality, or job-site concerns to project leadership.
• Provide hands-on instruction, guidance, and support to less-experienced painters and crew members.
• Promote teamwork, professionalism, productivity, and respectful communication on the job site.
• Follow and reinforce company safety practices and applicable job-site safety requirements.
• Safely use ladders, scaffolding, sprayers, hand tools, power tools, and other painting equipment appropriate to assigned work.
• Properly clean, maintain, and store painting tools and equipment. Maintain an organized work area and ensure job sites are left clean at the end of each workday and upon project completion.
• Communicate professionally with coworkers, subcontractors, customers, and other project participants as appropriate.
• Perform other painting and construction-related duties as needed to support successful project completion.

• Proven professional experience performing interior and exterior painting.
• Previous experience leading, mentoring, training, or providing day-to-day direction to painting or construction crew members preferred.
• Strong knowledge of professional surface preparation and painting techniques.
• Knowledge of paints, primers, stains, varnishes, sealers, and other common coatings and their appropriate applications.
• Experience selecting, mixing, preparing, and applying painting materials.
• Proficiency using brushes, rollers, sprayers, caulking equipment, sanding equipment, and other common painting tools.
• Ability to evaluate surfaces and determine appropriate preparation and application methods.
• Ability to produce clean, consistent, professional-quality finishes.
• Strong understanding of job-site safety practices.
• Ability to safely work from ladders, scaffolding, and other approved work platforms as required for assigned projects.
• Good basic math and measurement skills for calculating areas and estimating material quantities.
• Ability to organize work and help keep a crew productive and focused on project priorities.
• Ability to identify job-site problems, make sound decisions within the scope of the role, and communicate concerns to project leadership.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to quality workmanship.
• Reliable, professional, and able to work effectively both…