"Supervising Painter"

About the Position

Under general direction of the Associate Director, the Supervising Painter will supervise and lead a crew of skilled and semi-skilled staff performing maintenance and projects as assigned. This position is responsible for supervising one or more small groups or crews comprised of semi-skilled and skilled journey-level staff.

Please Note: Review of applications will begin on March 26, 2026.

Responsibilities

Planned Maintenance

• Under the general direction of the Associate Director and in coordination with Work Control, this position is responsible for planning and assigning staff to a five-year scheduled maintenance plan designed to promote a predictive maintenance approach addressing the University’s aging infrastructure.
• Lead staff to perform a wide range of journey-level and semi-skilled painting work, including maintenance, repair, alteration, and construction tasks across University facilities.
• Assign staff to support paint shop and facilities project workloads to ensure projects are completed efficiently and within established timeframes, as needed.
• Responsible for maintaining accurate work order updates in the TMA system.
• Ensure the Paint Shop Dashboard is current and reflects ongoing maintenance activities and project progress.

Projects

• Supervises a work crew in support of projects, alterations, remodels, and new construction as needed.
• Attend meetings and work closely with Planning, Design & Construction (PDC), project managers, customers, staff, and vendors to ensure successful project delivery.
• Provides comprehensive technical leadership, conducts inspections, and ensures quality assurance of work performed by both staff and contractors.
• Collaborate with project managers and customers to interpret complex plans and drawings, ensuring clarity and accuracy throughout the project.
• Coordinate staff work schedules and assignments to meet project objectives, as well as sequencing and staging work to guarantee the availability of necessary materials and equipment before project start.
• Analyze the effectiveness of internal operations and work collaboratively with other leads, supervisors, and project managers to schedule trade workers efficiently across multiple projects.
• Responsible for preparing cost, material, and time estimates, ensuring the accuracy of staff entries in computerized recordkeeping or maintenance management systems.
• Conduct detailed inspections to verify compliance with building and safety codes.
• Design minor tenant improvements as assigned.

Administrative

• Under the direction of the Associate Director plans, schedules and sets priorities of supervised staff work assignments.
• Sets priorities for departmental purchases, equipment replacements as well as repairs.
• Delegates assigned work and equipment maintenance/repair activities.
• Develops programs for routine and preventive maintenance equipment; prepares work plans and schedules.

Minimum Qualifications

Knowledge and Abilities

• In addition to the knowledge required of the Lead Painter, the Supervising Painter must possess a more thorough knowledge of effective supervisory practices and techniques and a working knowledge of job design and work sequencing related to construction projects.
• In addition to the abilities required of the Lead Painter, the Supervising Painter must be able to plan and direct the work of skilled crafts workers and their semi-skilled assistants; determine and coordinate staffing, material and equipment needs for multiple jobs and projects; and ensure accuracy and maintenance of assigned record-keeping systems.

Experience

• Two or more years of experience as a journey-level painter, including one to two years in a lead/supervisory capacity

Required Qualifications

• Ability to recognize and select appropriate paint type.
• Ability to make rough sketches, provide cost estimates, time and materials of paint projects.
• Ability to analyze and respond appropriately to emergencies.
• Ability to read and write at a level appropriate to the position; and perform arithmetic calculations as required by the position.
• Must be able to work in high locations on ladders, scaffolds, motorized equipment, etc.
• Must be able to work in confined spaces.
• Must be able to work in varying climatic conditions, to include inclement weather.
• Must be able to provide excellent customer service to our clients.
• Must be able to wear a respirator.

Salary and Benefits

PLEASE NOTE: The starting salary placement depends on qualifications and experience and is anticipated to be in the range of $6,705.00 per month to $8,174.00 per month (Step 1 - Step 11).

Cal State East Bay offers a broad range of benefits that includes medical, dental, vision, retirement (CalPERS), 401k, 457, 403(b), dependent and health care reimbursement accounts, life insurance, vacation and sick, 14 paid holidays, one personal holiday and tuition fee waiver.

For more information on the benefits program, please visit our benefits website. The CSU Total Compensation Calculator demonstrates the significance of our benefits package.