This position performs painting duties within the Maintenance and Operating Section, Facilities Support Service, at the Jonathan M. Wainwright Memorial VA Medical Center in Walla Walla, WA.

Duties

Major Duties: Prepares a wide variety of surfaces to be painted such as wood, metal, plaster, sheetrock, and concrete. Preparation may be by cleaning, wire brushing, sanding, and priming or sealing surfaces. Applies paint or other coatings to surfaces using brushes, rollers, or spray equipment. Surfaces being painted must be fully coated and free from drips and runs. Tapes joints of sheetrock, applies plaster to walls and ceilings, and repairs sheetrock and plasters surfaces with spackle, plaster, or tape. Finish work must be smooth and blend in with adjoining areas. Tapes and patches joints in sheetrock and applies plaster to walls and ceilings. Painting work includes special finishing techniques such as marbling and graining by using coating materials that are prepared in special as well as common ways, and by applying coating techniques that ensure services have a smooth texture and decorative appearance and meet thickness and level requirements. Determines the methods, techniques, devices, and materials that are best suited to the surface finish required such as glossy finish, grained effect, or a finish that must meet specified thickness in levels. Prepares services by methods such as smoothing with pumice and rottenstone, filling, shaping, and leveling with metal and synthetic resin, and mixing and applying pre-coating agents such as pickling and alkali compounds. Prepares coating materials by tinting, toning, matching, blending, and mixing in various additives. Applies coating materials with any of the excepted trade devices including those designed to give special effects such as brushes, rollers, spray, guns, and graining devices. Ensures that coating finish meets match, texture, decorative, thickness, and level requirements. Responsible for operating special-purpose snow removal equipment including plows, sand spreaders, tractor with front loader, and dump truck with hydraulic controls. Performs other related duties as assigned Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00am to 4:30pm Recruitment & Relocation Incentives: Not authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not approved

Requirements

Qualifications

PHYSICAL EFFORT AND WORK CONDITIONS: Required to prepare and paint/coat surfaces from ladders, scaffolds, platforms, and where the surfaces are in hard to reach areas. This requires climbing, standing, kneeling, and working in uncomfortable positions. Frequently lifts and carries material and equipment that weighs up to 50 pounds. Occasionally must handle extension ladders that are awkward to handle and set up. Must be capable of loading and unloading objects weighing up to 50 pounds. Work is done inside and outside and is subject to dirt, paint chips, and dust from sanding and wire brushing, and fumes from paints, solvents, varnishes, and other coatings. The Painter is sometimes required to prepare and coat surfaces outside in bad weather. Occasionally, they will be required to wear protective equipment and clothing that are sometimes heavy and uncomfortable. Frequent exposure to the possibility of cuts and bruises. Required to drive in all kinds of weather conditions, day and night and in adverse conditions. Applicants will be rated in accordance with the OPM Federal Wage System Qualifications. For this position, the job element method is used to match what you, the applicant, can do against what the work calls for. Your knowledge, skills and abilities will be compared to the knowledge, skills and abilities (called job elements) needed for success. Your qualifications will first be evaluated against the prescribed screen out element (WG-2 and higher only; screen-outs are not applicable to WG-1). Applicants who appear to meet the screen out element are considered for further rating; those who do not are rated ineligible and are eliminated from consideration. The potential eligibles are rated against the remainder of the job elements. While a specific length of training and experience is not required, your responses to the questionnaire must be supported by detailed descriptions of your experience on your resume. You will be rated on the following Job Elements as part of the assessment questionnaire for this position: Ability to Do the Work of the Position without More Than Normal SupervisionConstruction, StructureDexterity and SafetyInterpret Instructions, Specifications (other than blueprint reading)MaterialsTechnical PracticesUse and Maintain Tools and Equipment IMPORTANT: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. All experience listed on your resume must include the month and year start/end dates. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Contacts

• Address Jonathan M Wainwright Memorial VA Medical Center 77 Wainwright Drive Walla Walla, WA 99362 US
• Name: VHA National Recruitment Center
• Phone: (844)456-5208
• Email: [email protected]