Paint Specialist

Advance Auto Parts; Bradenton (FL); On-site; USD 19,286 - 24,796; Full time

Job summary

Advance Auto Parts in Bradenton, FL is seeking a PBE Specialist to support both Commercial and DIY customers. The role includes helping customers, mixing paint, tinting, and performing color match tasks while maintaining store presentation.

Responsibilities cover sales, stock duties, and using POS and inventory systems; flexible schedule with days, evenings, and weekends. Prior automotive PBE experience and a high school diploma are preferred.

Qualifications

• Ability to speak and write English; Spanish a plus.
• Read and interpret safety documents, manuals, and catalogs.
• Good math skills for measurements and price calculations.
• Proven sales ability and customer service orientation.

Responsibilities

• Achieve personal/store sales goals and service objectives.
• Ensure high standards of customer service and store appearance.
• Mix paint, train others to mix paint, and perform color tinting when needed.
• KEY holder duties: open/close, safety, task assignment.
• Assist in store inventory and maintain cleanliness.

Skills

Customer service

Sales

Communication skills

PBE knowledge

Color tinting

Education

High school diploma or GED

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

POS software

Inventory systems

Job description

Job Description

Primary Responsibilities

• Achieve personal /store sales goals and service objectives.
• Ensure high standards of customer service and store appearance standards.
• Perform specialty paint or industrial supply orders or source non-stock products as requested by customer.
• Mix paint, train others to mix paint, and perform camera readings and color tinting when needed.
• Key holder responsibilities: task assignment and completion, safety, open/close duties.
• Proven sales ability with experience in fulfillment of customer transactions.

Secondary Responsibilities

• Assist in store inventory processes including truck put away, shoot outs, cycle counts, back stock, etc.
• Store cleanliness including floors, bathrooms, facing, dusting, parking lot.

Success Factors

• Friendly communication.
• Ability to locate and stock PBE.
• Safety knowledge and skills of PBE.
• Operating inventory systems and store equipment.
• Operating POS for PBE or Parts lookup systems.
• Advanced solution, project, and product quality recommendation ability.
• Advanced PBE lookup and sourcing.
• Advanced selling skills for Commercial and DIY.

Essential Job Skills Necessary for Success as a PBE Specialist (Commercial and DIY combined)

• General knowledge of paint, body & equipment functions, and purposes.
• Ability to speak and write English (Spanish a plus); communicate effectively and build strong relationships with customers, peers, and management.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, PBE or Parts catalogs, and procedure manuals; ability to write simple correspondence.
• Ability to read and interpret financial and operational reports.
• Ability to understand and execute instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Successfully complete the PBE Knowledge Assessment.
• Ability to complete basic math accurately: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to use Microsoft software effectively (Word, Excel).
• Strong organizational skills.
• Ability to work an assortment of days, evenings, and weekends as needed.

Prior Experience

3-5 Years Of Prior Automotive PBE Experience Preferred.

Education

High school diploma or general education degree (GED).

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

• Must have a valid driver's license.

Physical Demands

The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job, with or without reasonable accommodation. While performing the duties of this job, the employee will predominantly be walking or standing, able to talk and hear, and use hands and fingers to handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job, with or without reasonable accommodation. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is usually working inside; however, they will occasionally be outside and exposed to various weather conditions while performing tasks such as installing paint mixing machines, color camera readings, paint color match tinting. The employee is also occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts, high precarious places, toxic or caustic chemical. Noise level is usually moderate.

We comply with all applicable federal, state, and local laws.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, or basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.