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Painter

National Gallery of Art · Posted 87 days ago

On-site Washington, DC $32.9 – $38.4/hr Apply by Jul 21, 2026 Painting INFPISFP Trades
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About the Role

The National Gallery of Art welcomes all people to explore art, creativity, and our shared humanity. Millions of people come through our doors each year, with even more online, making us one of the most visited art museums in the world. Our renowned collection includes over 160,000 works of art, from the ancient world to today. Admission to the West and East Buildings, Sculpture Garden, special exhibitions, and public programs is always free.

What You'll Do

  • →This position is located in the Facilities Management staff at the National Gallery of Art.
  • →The incumbent functions as a Painter who employs skilled techniques in the preparation of a variety of surfaces and in the application of coating materials to obtain a desired result.
  • →Duties for this position include.
  • →Paints both interior and exterior surfaces such as offices, corridors, stairwells, floors, hallways, cabinets, bookcases, walls, windows, gutters, and cornices.
  • →Surfaces may be wood, metal, glass, fiber, concrete, or plastic and may require one or more of a variety of coating materials such as paint, shellac, varnish, enamel, lacquer, stain, bonding agents, pre-coating material, epoxy resin or other special application.
  • →Prepares surfaces for new coating materials and removes the old finish, if neccessary, by sanding, scraping, brushing, or by using steel wool, paint remover or burning.
  • →Builds up, shapes and levels surface with plastics, patching compounds, synthetic resins and by applying pre-coating agents such as alkali compounds.
  • →Prepares coating materials by tinting, toning, matching, blending and mixing various additives to achieve the desired colors/tones/shades.
  • →Applies the coating material using accepted trade practices and techniques and ensures that the finish meets the desired requirements for match, texture, thickness and decoration.

Requirements

  • ✓Qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement.
  • ✓For information on qualification requirements, see Qualification Standards Handbook for General Schedule Positions viewable on OPM Website.
  • ✓It is your responsibility to ensure that you submit appropriate documentation prior to the closing date.
  • ✓Your resume serves as the basis for qualification determinations and must highlight your most relevant and significant experience as it relates to this job announcement.
  • ✓Be clear and specific when describing your work history since human resources cannot make assumptions regarding your experience.
  • ✓This position is being advertised under Delegated Examining procedures under this announcement NGA-26-120-DE.
  • ✓Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social).
  • ✓Your resume must include the dates of all qualifying experience (from month/year to month/year) and the number of hours worked/volunteered per week.
  • ✓This position does not have an education requirement.
  • ✓You must be a United States Citizen.
  • ✓This employer participates in the e-Verify program.
  • ✓Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
  • ✓See "Other Information" section regarding Selective Service requirements.
  • ✓Suitable for Federal employment, determined by a background investigation.

Benefits

  • ★The Federal Government offers a comprehensive benefits package.
  • ★Please see Benefits at https://www.si.edu/OHR/benefits for a complete description.
  • ★Flexible Spending Accounts - https://www.fsafeds.com/ Health Insurance - http://www.opm.gov/insure/health/index.asp Leave - http://www.opm.gov/oca/leave/index.asp Life Insurance - http://www.opm.gov/insure/life/index.asp Retirement Program - https://www.opm.gov/retirement-services/

Personality Fit

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