Letterer and Sign Painter

City of New York•Woodside, NY

46d•$319 - $319•Onsite

About The Position

The Bureau of Building Maintenance within the New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) is seeking a Letterer and Sign Painter. DSNY is the nation's largest municipal sanitation agency, responsible for keeping New York City healthy, safe, and clean through waste management, street cleaning, and snow removal. This role involves performing various types of lettering and sign painting work on diverse surfaces and materials, utilizing both traditional and modern techniques. The Department of Sanitation is committed to inclusivity and equal opportunity, fostering a diverse workforce and a work environment free from discrimination.

Requirements

Five years of satisfactory full-time, paid experience, as a sign painter or letterer doing layout and preparation of lettering, signs and posters, using a brush freehand, paste-on or stenciled letters, or computer graphics software, and other related sign/lettering work.
A satisfactory combination of experience and/or education which is equivalent to the above requirement. Six months of acceptable experience will be credited for each year of related education and/or computer training in an accredited trade or vocational school, including apprenticeship or helper experience in lettering or sign painting.
All candidates must have at least two years and six months of the required experience.

Responsibilities

Perform various types and kinds of freehand, automated and/or computer-designed lettering and sign painting work on various objects, materials, and surfaces using any and all types of mediums available or necessary.
Design, lay out, proportion, block-in and finish all styles of lettering work on all kinds of surfaces.
Perform work on signs, asphalt, roadways, road signs, plaques, billboards, buildings, walls, doors, storefronts, windows, etc., using mediums such as oil or water-based paint, gold leaf, silk screen, vinyl sheeting, metals, plastics, etc.
Utilize pressure-sensitive letters and related equipment.
Perform freehand lettering and painting of signs and backgrounds.
Paint signs and graphics on all kinds of materials, such as metal, wood, masonry, tar, asphalt, concrete, plastic, cardboard, glass, etc.
Install backgrounds on signs using mediums such as paint, vinyl, powder coating, etc.
Work with reflective and non-reflective vinyl sheeting, and apply sheeting on various substrate materials, such as aluminum, other metals, plastic, wood, glass, etc.
Use specialized computer graphics and logo design software and computer-driven tools, such as thermal and vinyl cutting plotters, to design, lay out and draw lettering, text, graphics, logos and signs.
Prepare master signs from which silk screens will be made.
Lay out and set lettering by silk screen process manually or using mechanical means.
Produce silk screens, using hand-cut and photographic processes (including overlays) for the mass production of signs.
Apply lettering and logos to motor vehicles and equipment.
Perform roadway painting.
May work, either indoors or outdoors, from scaffolds, ladders, booms or platform-, bucket- and tower trucks.
Maintain tools, equipment and work areas.