PAINTER (2348)

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About the Employer

In Glendale Unified schools, we focus on maximizing student achievement, fostering students’ social and emotional growth, and creating a vibrant, inclusive environment where all children can learn and thrive. Glendale Unified is the third largest school district in Los Angeles County. We proudly serve 25,000 students in preschool through 12th grade and beyond.

We proudly offer dual immersion programs in seven languages; Armenian, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish. Glendale Unified also offers six magnet schools focused on technology, world languages, and visual and performing arts, and a wide variety of Career and Technical Education pathways beginning in middle school. Through a collaborative partnership with Glendale Community College, Glendale Unified offers students multiple opportunities to earn college credit before they graduate from high school, including our Hoover Early College Academy and Glendale High Cloud Computing and Computer Science Academy. We are excelling together to provide our students with endless pathways for success! Several of our schools are recipients of prestigious awards such as: National Blue Ribbon Schools, California Distinguished Schools, California Gold Ribbon Schools, and Title I Academic Achieving Schools.

Glendale Unified is a diverse school district that welcomes students and families from all over the world. Our students come from a wide range of ethnic, cultural, and socio-economic backgrounds and speak 35 different languages.

Job Summary

Performs skilled painting work in protecting and decorating the surfaces of buildings, fixtures, and related equipment.

Job Description / Essential Elements:

GLENDALE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT CLASS DESCRIPTION

PAINTER

DEFINITION

Performs skilled painting work in protecting and decorating the surfaces of buildings, fixtures, and related equipment.

SUPERVISION RECEIVED AND EXERCISED

General supervision is provided by the assigned Regional Maintenance Supervisor or a high level management position.

Assignments may require the indirect supervision of other maintenance and repair personnel.

EXAMPLES OF DUTIES

Mixes and matches paint.

Applies paint, varnishes, stains, lacquers, and enamels to building interiors and exteriors, furniture, and equipment.

Applies paints by brush, roller, or airless spray gun to a variety of surfaces.

Does line striping of courts, parking lots, and lanes.

Does stencil painting of curbs, roads, signs, and doors.

Erects scaffolding and removes or covers objects to protect them from spattered paint.

Prepares surfaces by scraping, sanding, sealing, or washing, and by puttying and patching holes and cracks.

Cleans brushes and sees that tools and equipment are properly maintained.

Requisitions painting supplies.

Performs related work as required.

CLASS QUALIFICATIONS

Knowledge of:

Methods, materials, and equipment used in the painting trades.

Basic qualities of various paints and sealers used for school plant purposes and their adaptability and uses in specific situations.

Ability to:

Mix and match paints, blend, harmonize, and contrast colors.

Apply paints by brush, roller, or spray gun.

Use and care for painting tools.

Prepare and work from ladders and scaffolds.

Understand and carry out oral and written instructions.

Be insured at standard vehicle liability and property damage insurance rates and maintain insurability.

EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS

Five years of varied painting experience with at least one year at the journey level.

LICENSE OR CERTIFICATE

Possession of a valid State of California Class C driver’s license.

05/80 – Classification established by Personnel Commission
11/86 – Minor Revision
09/96 – Minor Revision

Requirements / Qualifications

Comments and Other Information

After an offer of employment, a candidate must submit evidence of freedom from tuberculosis, fingerprint clearance with the Department of Justice, and a pre-employment physical exam (district-paid).

Statement of Non-discrimination (Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973): The Board of Education is committed to equal opportunity for all individuals in education. District programs, activities and services shall be free from unlawful discrimination, harassment (including sexual harassment), intimidation, and/or bullying based on actual or perceived sex, race or ethnicity, color, national origin, nationality, religion, age, sexual orientation, sexual preference, ancestry, ethnic group identification, gender, gender expression, gender identity, physical or mental disability, marital or parental status, or on the basis of a person’s association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics, or sexual harassment in any district service, program and/or activity that receives or benefits from state financial assistance. The Board shall promote programs which ensure that unlawful discriminatory practices are eliminated in all district activities. The District will take steps to assure that the lack of English will not be a barrier to admission and participation in district programs. A copy of the District’s Uniform Complaint Policy is available by calling (818) 241-3111, Ext. 1457. Complaints alleging noncompliance with this policy of nondiscrimination should be directed to the following personnel:
Title IX Coordinator: Dr. Kelly King, 223 N. Jackson St., (818) 241-3111, Ext. 1209, titleix@gusd.net