Painter

Veterans Health Administration

Wilkes-Barre (Luzerne County)

On-site

USD 54,000 - 65,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

The Veterans Health Administration at the Wilkes-Barre VA Medical Center (Facilities Management Service) is seeking a Painter to perform coating and finishing work under the supervision of the Maintenance and Operations Assistant Foreman. The role focuses on applying and maintaining decorative and durable finishes across hospital facilities.

Duties include material preparation, color matching, and applying finishes with brushes, rollers, spray guns, and graining devices.

Qualifications

Duties described focus on painting and finishing skills.
Attention to texture, thickness, and decorative finishes.

Responsibilities

Performs application, maintenance, and repair of finishes using coating materials and techniques.
Prepares coating materials by tinting, toning, blending, and adding additives.
Applies coatings with brushes, rollers, spray guns, and graining devices to achieve decorative surfaces.
Ensures coatings meet texture, thickness, and level requirements; checks viscosity and coverage.
Tapes joints, spackles, sands, and paints drywall; prepares surfaces for adhesion.
Work Schedule: Monday–Friday 7:00 a.m.–3:30 p.m.

Job description

Department: Department of Veterans Affairs

This position is located in the Wilkes Barre VA Medical Center of the Facilities Management Service under the general supervision of the Maintenance and Operations Assistant Forman. The painter is an integral part of the Maintenance and Operations section of the Facilities Management Service.

Key Responsibilities

Duties include but not limited too: Performs all duties associated with the application, maintenance, and repair of all types of finishes, including special finishing techniques such as marbling and graining, by using coating materials that are prepared in special and common way and by applying coating techniques that ensure surfaces have a smooth textured and decorative appearance and meet thickness and level requirements, Prepares coating materials by tinting, toning, matching, blending, and mixing in various additives, applies coating materials with any of the accepted trade devices including those designed to give special effects, for example, brushes, rollers, spray guns, and graining devices.

Ensures that the coating finish meets match, texture, decorative, thickness, and level requirements, check such things as viscosity of coating materials and thickness of coatings on surfaces, Adds various agents (for example, retardants, drying agents), and combine coating mixtures to get the proper color, texture, consistency, and drying state.

Coverings on plastered walls, metal and wood surfaces, roads, parking lots, furniture, small patching needs and equipment, after proper surface preparation, to insure good adhesion Must be able to tape joints, spackle, sand and paint drywall. Work Schedule: Monday- Friday 7:00 a.am-3:30 p.m. Position Description Title/PD#: Painter/PD01714A

Which agency is hiring for this position?

This position is with Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs.

What is the salary for this position?

The posted pay range is $26.13 – $30.5/hr.

What security clearance is required?

This position requires a Other security clearance.

What is the application deadline?

Applications close on 2026-10-02.

Who is eligible to apply?

This position is open under the 'Fed Internal Search' hiring path.