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Bargaining Unit:

CSEA

Job Summary:

The Department of Facilities Management and Development at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University is seeking a full-time Trades Specialist, Painter.

A Trades Specialist (Painter) performs journey-level painting work and may supervise others in preparing surfaces and applying coats of paint, varnish, and other finishes and stains to decorate and protect interior or exterior surfaces and fixtures of buildings, structures, furniture, equipment, and materials.

Illustrative Tasks

Supervises and instructs others in the preparation and painting of interior and exterior surfaces:

• Assigns work to painting crew.
• From measurements of area to be painted, may recommend to supervisor and order the kind, quantity, and quality of paint and other materials to be used.
• Assembles materials, tools, and equipment required to accomplish work.
• May give verbal instruction and/or demonstrate proper painting techniques and the use of painting tools and equipment.
• Observes and inspects work in progress and when completed to ensure that the job is done properly.
• When supervising individuals for whom the State has custody or responsibility, a Trades Specialist (Painter) must always be aware of and account for their activity while on the job and ensure that the rules and regulations of the facility governing such activities are followed.

Applies paint, varnish, stains, enamel, or lacquer to interior and exterior surfaces, trimming and fixtures of buildings, furniture, a variety of equipment, signs, and like surfaces requiring protective or decorative treatment:

• May erect scaffolding, swing stages, or ladders.
• Prepares surfaces for painting using a variety of tools and materials, including sandpaper, brushes, or steel wool, and if required, removes paints using paint remover, blow torch, wire brush, or scraper.
• Fills nail holes, cracks, or joints with putty, plaster, or other filler.
• Uses premixed paints or prepares paint tip match specified colors by mixing the required portions of pigment, oil, and thinners.
• Paints surfaces using brush, spray gun, paint roller, or mittens.

May cover interior walls with wall coverings:

• Measures wall to compute amount of wall covering required.
• Prepares and cleans surfaces to be covered and cuts wall covering to proper lengths.
• Mixes paste, brushes on back of wall covering, and places and smooths strips on wall.

Required Qualifications:

• Non-competitive: 4-years of full-time experience in painting under a skilled tradesperson which would provide training equivalent to that given in a training, apprenticeship, or equivalent program;
  • Or an equivalent combination of experience and training gained by completion of technical courses in painting at a school, institute, or branch of the Armed Services. When required to operate motor vehicles, candidates must possess a valid New York State driver's license appropriate for the type of vehicle to be operated. 
• When required to operate motor vehicles, candidates must possess a valid New York State driver's license appropriate for the type of vehicle to be operated. 

Preferred Qualifications:

Work Schedule:

Variable Days; 7:30am to 4:00pm (Full-Time)

Salary Grade/Rank:

Salary Range:

As per civil service guidelines

• $48,986 to $59,757 Base Salary plus $3,400 Location Pay

Executive Order:

Pursuant to Executive Order 161, no State entity, as defined by the Executive Order, is permitted to ask, or mandate, in any form, that an applicant for employment provide his or her current compensation, or any prior compensation history, until such time as the applicant is extended a conditional offer of employment with compensation.  If such information has been requested from you before such time, please contact the Governor’s Office of Employee Relations at (518) 474-6988 or via email at info@goer.ny.gov.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:

SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, creed, age, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, familial status, pregnancy, predisposing genetic characteristics, military status, domestic violence victim status, criminal conviction, and all other protected classes under federal or state laws.

Women, minorities, veterans, individuals with disabilities and members of underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply.

If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please contact Human Resources at ada@downstate.edu