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Painter
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 2 days ago
About the Role
The Detroit VA Medical Center is hiring for a Painter with the experience to apply paint, dry wall tape, hang wallpaper by using brushes, rollers, sprayers, and other application tools. Can follow a line free hand, match and mix paints, patch holes and cracks in plaster, replace window and door glass as well as glaze and seal the installation. The purpose of this position is to provide painting, wall covering, glass replacement and sign making at a journeyman level for the Medical Center.
What You'll Do
- →Applies paint coating materials with any of the accepted trade devices including those designed to give special effects which the painter sees that the coating finish meets match, texture, decorative, thickness, and level requirements.
- →Prepares surfaces by methods such as smoothing with pumice and rotten stone, filling, shaping, and leveling with metal and synthetic resins, and mixing and applying pre-coating agents such as pickling and alkali compounds.
- →Uses standard tools and equipment such as brushes, rollers, spray guns, trowels, screeds, straight edges, viscosity testers, graining devices, and wet and other thickness gauges.
- →Prepares surfaces and uses appropriate coating techniques in performing painting duties.
- →Prepares surfaces and applies coating techniques that will insure surfaces have a smooth-textured and decorative appearance and meet thickness and level requirements.
- →Determines the methods, techniques, devices, and materials that are best suited to the surface finish required using a glossy finish, grained effect, or a finish that must meet specified thickness and levels.
- →Insures that surfaces meet smoothness, level and shape requirements by tinting, toning, matching and blending coating materials and adds various agents and combines coating mixtures to get the proper color, texture, consistency and drying state.
- →Prepares surfaces for plaster application.
- →Finishes new plaster surfaces as well as repairs and patches existing surfaces.
- →Mixes and applies plastering materials for application on all types of backgrounds such as metal, wood, or gypsum lath, wallboard, and masonry surfaces.
- →In repairing damaged areas, determines how much old plaster to remove to obtain a firm surface and whether to replace lath.
- →In accomplishing repairing or patching, prepares damaged areas to ensure that the new plaster adheres to the surface and surrounding plaster.
- →Installs or replaces metal, wood, wallboard, or gypsum lath.
- →Applies base or scratch coat to ensure that it adheres firmly to lath or other sub surfaces.
Requirements
- ✓Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
- ✓Suitable for Federal employment, determined by a background investigation All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓Selective Services Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued dentification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your probationary period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 72e6570d-8b65-499c-a10c-e43ddd1a380c
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