Req #: 243252 Department: UW MEDICAL CENTER- MONTLAKE - MAINTENANCE Posting Date: 02/12/2025 Closing Info: Open Until Filled Salary: $27.39 - $36.36 per hour Shift: First Shift Notes: As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For a complete description of our benefits for this position, **click here.** UW Medical Center - Montlake has an outstanding opportunity for a **PAINTER** . **WORK SHIFT** + Monday – Friday: 6:55 am to 3:25pm **POSITION HIGHLIGHTS** + The individual in this role will perform skilled painting work on interior and exterior of buildings and facilities and perform journey-level duties in skilled painting work. **PRIMARY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES** + Paint a variety of surfaces to support UW Medical Center renovation projects. + Track time spent on projects, reporting time spent on time sheets. + Prepare surfaces for painting or finishing by scraping, sanding, washing, or otherwise removing dirt, grease, old finishes, and rust scale; remove paint from surfaces by using sanders, wire brushes, and paint and varnish remover. + Preparatory to painting, make minor repairs in plaster, sheetrock, metal, wood and masonry surfaces by filling with putty, caulks, fiberglass, resin, etc. + Apply primers, sealers, stains and undercoats with brushes, rollers, or spray-painting equipment, striping machine, etc.; paint machinery, piping, floors, and walls; apply hi-tech industrial enamels, epoxies. + Move furniture, place protective drop cloths; tape baseboards, glass, and other surfaces when needed. + Clean brushes, rollers, spray and other painting equipment with water, solvent, thinner or other appropriate cleaners to keep equipment and tools in good working condition; observing safety requirements. + Install, work from, and remove scaffolding, stages, planks, ladders, jacks, spider staging, and other work platforms. + Drive service truck as required, load and unload materials and supplies. + May operate ladder and boom trucks, and forklift. **MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS** Completion of a recognized apprenticeship as a painter; OR full journey status as a painter in a union; OR four years of applicable work experience. Vocational training may be substituted for work experience on a year-for-year basis. May require valid State of Washington driver’s license. **ABOUT UW MEDICAL CENTER-MONTLAKE** UW Medical Center is an acute care academic medical center located in Seattle with two campuses: Montlake and Northwest. As the No. 1 hospital in Seattle and Washington State since 2012 (U.S. News & World Report) and nationally ranked in seven specialties, UW Medical Center prides itself on compassionate patient care as well as its pioneering medical advances.The UW Medical Center-Montlake campus is located on the edge of the beautiful UW campus which includes many amenities available to our staff as well as very convenient public transit options including the Sound Transit’s light rail station across the street. **Excellence. Exploration. Education. (https://www.uwmedicine.org/about/career-opportunities/uw-medical-center-montlake)** Become part of ourteam. Join our mission to make life healthier for everyone in our community. **UW Medicine – Where your Impact Goes Further** UW Medicine is Washington’s only health system that includes a top-rated medical school and an internationally recognized research center. UW Medicine’s mission is to improve the health of the public by advancing medical knowledge, providing outstanding primary and specialty care to the people of the region, and preparing tomorrow’s physicians, scientists and other health professionals.All across UW Medicine, our employees collaborate to perform the highest quality work with integrity and compassion and to create a respectful, welcoming environment where every patient, family, student and colleague is valued and honored. Nearly 29,000 healthcare professionals, researchers, and educators work in the UW Medicine family of organizations that includes: Harborview Medical Center, UW Medical Center - Montlake, UW Medical Center - Northwest, Valley Medical Center, UW Medicine Primary Care, UW Physicians, UW School of Medicine, and Airlift Northwest. University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.