Supervising Painter

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Work type: Staff
Location: East Bay
Categories: Unit 6 - Teamsters Local 2010, Probationary, Full Time, Trades, On-site (work in-person at business location)

PLEASE NOTE: The starting salary placement depends on qualifications and experience and is anticipated to be in the range of $6,705.00 per month to $8,174.00 per month (Step 1 - Step 11).

Cal State East Bay offers a broad range of benefits that includes medical, dental, vision, retirement (CalPERS), 401k, 457, 403(b), dependent and health care reimbursement accounts, life insurance, vacation and sick, 14 paid holidays, one personal holiday and tuition fee waiver.
For more information on the benefits program, please visit our benefits website. The CSU Total Compensation Calculator demonstrates the significance of our benefits package.

Cal State East Bay's beautiful main campus is located in the Hayward hills with panoramic views of the San Francisco Bay shoreline. Situated above the city of Hayward, the campus offers an ideal setting for teaching and learning and yet easy access to the many cities along the bay. The University has a satellite campus in Concord, a professional development center in Oakland and a significant presence online.

Founded in 1957, Cal State East Bay is one of 23 universities of the California State University system (CSU). Cal State East Bay is recognized as a regionally engaged and globally oriented university with a strong commitment to academic innovation, student success, engaged and service learning, diversity, and sustainability.

Under general direction of the Associate Director, the Supervising Painter will supervise and lead a crew of skilled and semi-skilled staff performing maintenance and projects as assigned. This position is responsible for supervising one or more small groups or crews comprised of semi-skilled and skilled journey-level staff.

Review of applications will begin on March 26, 2026.

Planned Maintenance

• Under the general direction of the Associate Director and in coordination with Work Control, this position is responsible for planning and assigning staff to a five-year scheduled maintenance plan designed to promote a predictive maintenance approach addressing the University’s aging infrastructure.
• Lead staff to perform a wide range of journey-level and semi-skilled painting work, including maintenance, repair, alteration, and construction tasks across University facilities.
• Assign staff to support paint shop and facilities project workloads to ensure projects are completed efficiently and within established time frames, as needed.
• Responsible for maintaining accurate work order updates in the TMA system.
• Ensure the Paint Shop Dashboard is current and reflects ongoing maintenance activities and project progress.

Projects

• Supervises a work crew in support of projects, alterations, remodels, and new construction as needed.
• Attend meetings and work closely with Planning, Design & Construction (PDC), project managers, customers, staff, and vendors to ensure successful project delivery.
• Provides comprehensive technical leadership, conducts inspections, and ensures quality assurance of work performed by both staff and contractors.
• Collaborate with project managers and customers to interpret complex plans and drawings, ensuring clarity and accuracy throughout the project.
• Coordinate staff work schedules and assignments to meet project objectives, as well as sequencing and staging work to guarantee the availability of necessary materials and equipment before project start.
• Analyze the effectiveness of internal operations and work collaboratively with other leads, supervisors, and project managers to schedule trade workers efficiently across multiple projects.
• Responsible for preparing cost, material, and time estimates, ensuring the accuracy of staff entries in computerized recordkeeping or maintenance management systems.
• Conduct detailed inspections to verify compliance with building and safety codes.
• Design minor tenant improvements as assigned.

Administrative

• Under the direction of the Associate Director plans, schedules and sets priorities of supervised…