PAINTER - 100% FTE, DAYS - UW MEDICAL CENTER - MONTLAKE
About The Position
UW Medical Center - Montlake has an outstanding opportunity for a PAINTER. This role performs skilled painting work on the interior and exterior of buildings and facilities, performing journey-level duties. The individual will paint a variety of surfaces to support UW Medical Center renovation projects, track time spent on projects, and prepare surfaces for painting or finishing by scraping, sanding, washing, or otherwise removing dirt, grease, old finishes, and rust scale. They will also make minor repairs in plaster, sheetrock, metal, wood, and masonry surfaces. The role involves applying primers, sealers, stains, and undercoats, as well as painting machinery, piping, floors, and walls with hi-tech industrial enamels and epoxies. Responsibilities include moving furniture, placing drop cloths, taping surfaces, and cleaning painting equipment. The Painter will install, work from, and remove scaffolding, stages, planks, ladders, and other work platforms. Driving a service truck, loading/unloading materials, and operating ladder/boom trucks and forklifts may also be required.
Requirements
- Completion of a recognized apprenticeship as a painter; OR full journey status as a painter in a union; OR four years of applicable work experience.
- Vocational training may be substituted for work experience on a year-for-year basis.
- May require valid State of Washington driver’s license.
Responsibilities
- Paint a variety of surfaces to support UW Medical Center renovation projects.
- Track time spent on projects, reporting time spent on time sheets.
- Prepare surfaces for painting or finishing by scraping, sanding, washing, or otherwise removing dirt, grease, old finishes, and rust scale; remove paint from surfaces by using sanders, wire brushes, and paint and varnish remover.
- Make minor repairs in plaster, sheetrock, metal, wood and masonry surfaces by filling with putty, caulks, fiberglass, resin, etc.
- Apply primers, sealers, stains and undercoats with brushes, rollers, or spray-painting equipment, striping machine, etc.; paint machinery, piping, floors, and walls; apply hi-tech industrial enamels, epoxies.
- Move furniture, place protective drop cloths; tape baseboards, glass, and other surfaces when needed.
- Clean brushes, rollers, spray and other painting equipment with water, solvent, thinner or other appropriate cleaners to keep equipment and tools in good working condition; observing safety requirements.
- Install, work from, and remove scaffolding, stages, planks, ladders, jacks, spider staging, and other work platforms.
- Drive service truck as required, load and unload materials and supplies.
- May operate ladder and boom trucks, and forklift.
Benefits
- Benefits for this position, visit https://www.washington.edu/jobs/benefits-for-uw-staff/
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
