Painter - 100% Fte, Days - Uw Medical Center - Montlake

University of Washington•Seattle, WA

3d•Onsite

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, and performs journey-level duties in skilled painting work. The individual in this role will perform skilled painting work on interior and exterior of buildings and facilities and perform journey-level duties in skilled painting work.

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.
Preparatory to painting, 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.