Branch Specialist Color Blender

The Sherwin-Williams Company; Charlottesville (VA); On-site; USD 20,664,000 - 30,307,000; Full time

Job summary

The Sherwin-Williams Company is seeking a Branch Specialist Color Blender to support two Charlottesville area stores. You will assist with sales to wholesale customers, prepare paint orders, blend batches, and adjust shades and gloss to ensure accurate color matches.

Responsibilities include handling various warehouse tasks and maintaining equipment, with an emphasis on safety, accuracy, and customer service in a retail paint store environment.

Qualifications

• 18 years of age or older
• Legally authorized to work in country of employment without requiring sponsorship for employment visa status
• Be able to operate a computer and communicate via the telephone
• Ability to retrieve material from shelves and floor stacks and lift and carry up to 50 lbs.
• Willingness to work all scheduled hours, including evenings and weekends
• Operate material handling equipment safely after training
• Ability to distinguish colors for color matching or tinting paint

Responsibilities

• Support sales efforts at a Sherwin-Williams commercial paint store, servicing wholesale customers.
• Prepare customers' paint orders quickly and accurately, including blending initial batches, shade and gloss adjustments, and labeling batches.

Job description

Job Factors/Additional Comments - Internal

• Support sales efforts at a Sherwin-Williams commercial paint store, servicing wholesale customers.

• Prepare customers' paint orders quickly and accurately, which involves blending initial batches, making shade and gloss adjustments, filling and labeling batches, preparing draw-downs for submittal to customers, maintaining accurate work order files and formulas, in addition to cleaning, filling and repairing equipment as necessary.

• Assist with general warehouse, delivery and customer service duties as needed, including loading, and unloading of material, and waiting on customers.

The Branch Specialist Color Blender role will be expected to work at Store #3376 located at :2115 Berkmar Dr Charlottesville VA 22901 AND Store # 7658 located at :976 Seminole Trail, Charlottesville VA 22901.

Job duties involve contact with customers, which may include minors; and access to cash and other payment methods, electronic equipment, personal information, store merchandise and other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company's customers, staff, employees, vendors, contractors, and the general public.

Responsibilities

• Support sales efforts at a Sherwin-Williams commercial paint store, servicing wholesale customers.

• Prepare customers' paint orders quickly and accurately, which involves blending initial batches, making shade and gloss adjustments, filling and labeling batches, preparing draw-downs for submittal to customers, maintaining accurate work order files and formulas, in addition to cleaning, filling and repairing equipment as necessary.

Qualifications

Our Must Haves - These are our Basic Qualifications.

• 18 years of age or older

• Legally authorized to work in country of employment without requiring sponsorship for employment visa status, now or in the future

• Be able to operate a computer and communicate via the telephone, with or without reasonable accommodation

• Ability to retrieve material from shelves and floor stacks and lift and carry up to 50 lbs., with or without reasonable accommodation

• Willingness to work all scheduled hours, which may include evenings and weekends, with or without reasonable accommodation

• Operate material handling equipment (e.g. hand truck, pallet jack, forklift, etc.) safely once trained, with or without reasonable accommodation

• Ability to distinguish the difference between colors, a skill used when color matching or tinting paint, with or without reasonable accommodation

Job duties involve contact with customers, which may include minors; and access to cash and other payment methods, electronic equipment, personal information, store merchandise and other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company's customers, staff, employees, vendors, contractors, and the general public.