Painter – St-John’s

Compensation: $23 – $28 /hour (full-time / permanent)

Painters at On Side are important team members who, help restore damaged personal and commercial property, anywhere and anytime disaster strikes. Painters add colour to clients dreams with fresh, clean surfaces in the perfect shade.

What you’re responsible for…

A painter is skilled in the following ways:

• Estimate the quantity of materials required by measuring surfaces, reviewing scopes, sketches and work orders
• Remove old coatings by stripping with solvents, heat, sanding, wire brushing, or water and abrasive blasting
• Prepare surfaces for covering by cleaning, filling nail holes and cracks, and sanding rough spots
• Apply an undercoat primer or sealer before painting, or apply sizing before wallpapering
• Match specified colours by using premixed paints, or mixing colour and thinning and drying additives
• Use brushes, rollers or spray guns to apply liquid coatings such as paint, stain or varnish to surfaces of wood, metal, brick, concrete, plaster, stucco or stone
• Apply finishes that are sponged, ragged and layered
• Apply paper, vinyl or natural and synthetic fabric wallcoverings

What you bring…

Painters bring a host of abilities to their work with a ‘get it done!’ attitude.

Additional abilities required include:

• Experience working in construction environments with tools and the skills to use them
• Strong people and communication skills
• Attention to detail, passion for quality and pride in the work you do
• A safety mindset
• Valid driver’s licence and a clean criminal record (we do check)
• Ability to communicate in English

Other stuff that’ll help you be successful but isn’t mandatory:

• Experienced in drywall finishing, including mudding and taping
• WHMIS
• First Aid

Of Note

Disasters can occur at any time, so participation in a bimonthly rotating schedule for 24/7 after-hours on-call support is required.

What’s in it for you?

We’re an established company in a growing industry and we need awesome people! We WANT you to be fulfilled by your work, we WANT you to enjoy the people you work with and we WANT to provide you with learning and advancement opportunities. We also love that we’re able to provide an employee assistance program, RRSP matching and a comprehensive health plan which includes extended medical (ex. chiropractic, massage, acupuncture, vision) dental, long-term disability (LTD) and life insurance. At On Side we work hard to embrace diversity and inclusion and encourage everyone to bring their authentic selves to work every day.

Get on our side!

Both major weather disasters and minor accidents involving water, fire, and more happen every day, and in our industry, this is how we keep busy, restoring properties 24 hours per day, 7 days a week. Mother Nature usually doesn’t wait for an invitation, but we’re in the business of dealing with party crashers, and we’ve done it for over 40 years!

We have branches from Victoria, BC to St. John’s, Newfoundland and (almost) everywhere in between. Our fantastic team of over 2,000 employees stretches far and wide across Canada, and we’re growing—YOU could be the next great addition!