Painter (Lead)

Job Description - Painter (Lead) (260000KD) Job Description Painter (Lead) - ( 260000KD ) Description Position Grade: 211T Department: Multiple Departments Job Type: Full-Time (Permanent) Examination Number: EX1755 Location: Multiple Locations - St. Louis, MO Incumbents in this position lead a crew of painters, painter helpers, or assigned personnel, and assist with a variety of painting projects. Essential Functions and Responsibilities: Schedules, distributes/balances and guides the work assignments of co-workers, according to established workflow/assignment requirements, to assist supervisory staff with timely completion of the assigned work load. Lays out, assigns, supervises and monitors journeyman painters. Refinishing interiors and exteriors of building, signs, equipment and other structures. Orders supplies and materials for painting projects. Completes work reports and time sheets. Cleans, maintains and performs routine repairs on equipment. Removes and replaces window glass, hang wall coverings as well as lay out and stripes parking lots, runways and taxiways. Lays out and stencils signs, sets up and removes ladders and scaffolding. Mixes and tints paint, apply primer and finish coats through hand application or spraying. Repairs and refinishing wood. Inspected work ensures it is completed neatly and correctly. Ensures subordinates are familiar with safety programs and guidelines established in the city safety manual. Ensures employees who are issued personal protective equipment are used at all times. Reporting vehicle damages/accidents and personal injuries. Keeps daily and weekly equipment condition reports and prepares daily status reports. Prepares requisitions and minor purchased orders, trains co-workers, as directed, in specific tasks, job practices and procedures of painting work to improve and maintain the performance levels of these employees. Keeps updates of new products and technology related to the painting trade. Observing subordinates while evaluating their work performance. Ensures that equipment assigned to crew receives proper care and maintains a valid driver’s license. Other duties as assigned. Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Data Utilization: Requires the ability to perform basic level of data analysis including the ability to review, classify, categorize, prioritize and/or reference data, statutes and/or guidelines and/or group, rank, investigate and diagnose. Requires discretion in determining and referencing such to established standards to recognize interactive effects and relationships. Human Interaction: Requires the ability to persuade, convince, influence, train and monitor co-workers, in favor of a desired outcome. Requires the ability to act as a lead person. Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use: Requires the ability to operate, calibrate, tune and synchronize, and perform complex rapid adjustment on equipment, machinery and tools such as painting rollers/brushes, scrapers, common hand and power tools, ladders, scaffolding, stencils, sandblasting equipment, compressor, paint sprayer, glass cutter, and/or related materials used in performing essential functions. Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference and descriptive data and information such as work orders, project reports, time sheets, material safety data sheets, work safety regulations, color charts and general operating manuals. Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; calculate percentages, fractions and decimals. Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of rational systems. Ability to interpret instructions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic or schedule form. Ability to exercise independent judgment to adopt or modify methods and standards to meet variations in assigned objectives. Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the evaluation of information against measurable or verifiable criteria. Environmental Factors: Tasks may risk exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as dirt, dust, pollen, odors, wetness, humidity, fumes, temperature and noise extremes, machinery, vibrations, electric currents, traffic hazards, heights, toxic/poisonous agents. Physical Requirements: Requires the ability to lift, push and pull carts, ladders, painting equipment and signs up to fifty pounds. Requires manual dexterity to paint and perform related tasks. Requires the ability to stoop, kneel, bend, twist balance and climb while painting and making signs. Sensory Requirements: Requires the ability to recognize and identify degrees of similarities or differences between characteristics of colors and shapes associated with job‑related objects, materials and tasks. Incumbents are required to recognize colors and shapes to paint and letter signs. Requires the ability to distinguish object at close range. Qualifications Current employment with the City of St. Louis as a Painter for at least three years; OR two years experience as a journeyman painter and completion of a recognized painter apprenticeship program. License: Must possess and maintain a valid driver's license while employed by the City of St. Louis. Must possess a valid driver's license at the time of filing application and be able to present it upon request. Please note type of license, number, class and expiration date on the Employment Application. Only qualified applicants who provide proof of a valid driver’s license will be considered for this position. Scoring Components and Their Weights Experience and Training: 100% May be Subject to: Background Investigation: Pass/Fail Medical Examination: Pass/Fail Documentation of Academic Credentials must be Submitted Upon Request When completing the Employment History and the Educational/Training History sections of the Employment Application, please be as thorough as possible when describing your education, training and experience relating to this position. Applicants will only receive credit for their experience, training and education as shown on the application. Resumes will not be accepted as a substitute to a fully completed application. Incomplete applications will not be considered. To be eligible for veteran's preference points, the applicant must submit a copy of their DD 214 Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty with the Employment Application or upon request. The Director of Personnel may, in their discretion, accept alternate documentation. City Residence Preference Points City residents who pass an examination for a position in the classified service and do not receive any other preference will receive a five (5) point preference on a scale of 100 points on the exam. An additional one (1) point shall be added to the passing score of City residents who receive any other preference on a scale of 100 points. City residents must have resided in the City for at least one (1) year at the time of filing their application to be eligible for the preference points. Accommodations If assistance with the job application is necessary based on a physical impairment, mental impairment, or otherwise, they should reach out to the Office on the Disabled with contact information. This office will not disclose any information that an applicant or employee has a disability or has discussed possible accommodations without the applicant's or employee's prior consent. 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