Painter-Decorator Supervisor

Painter-Decorator Supervisor

Department: Legislative Branch

Location(s): Washington, District of Columbia

Salary Range: $46.27 - $54.01 Per Hour

Job Summary: Our work inspires a nation. We are the artisans, historians, and craftspeople who preserve and maintain the landmark buildings, monuments, art and grounds of the Capitol campus. This position is located in the Architect of the Capitol, Library Buildings and Grounds, Tenant Services Division, Projects Branch, Painting Night Section. As a Painter-Decorator Supervisor you will perform Painter-Decorator and Decorative-Plasterer duties in an extraordinary artistic and historical environment.

Major Duties:

• The Painter-Decorator Supervisor leads by example, working alongside their team performing the same work. They provide advice to the Facilities Manager's team on all matters affecting facilities maintenance, productivity, efficiency, and management. Duties include, but not limited to: Assigns work to employees directly and through work leaders and provides technical direction and/or assistance in accomplishing the work. Observes work in progress, investigates work related problems and determines causes. Implements corrective actions to resolve work problems. Operates a personal computer to perform the administrative work of the division such as approving time and attendance, maintaining directories and logs and preparing correspondence and memoranda. Initiates and closes out work orders used to document all work activities. Maintains the LBG Paint shop accountable property, including purchasing new equipment and updating inventory status. Performs decorative plastering on additions, renovations, patching, and new construction. Performs maintenance and repair on unique and historically significant plaster walls, ceilings, cornices, and moldings. Applies plaster to walls and ceilings. Applies decorative plaster to ornate and patterned finishes to exactly match the historical finish. Uses trowels, float, screed, plasterers hawk, straight edge, and personally devised tools as appropriate. Scrapes, sands, or applies paint remover to rooms, corridors, stairwells, trim, and other building surfaces to remove old paint Prepares interior and exterior metal, wood and masonry surfaces. Mixes and matches colors of paint, stain, or varnish with oil and thinning or drying additives in order to obtain desired colors and consistency. Uses special finishing techniques such as sponging, ragging, layering, or faux finishing. Uses brushes, spray guns, rollers, or other equipment to apply paint, varnish, wallpaper and other elaborate finishes (i.e. stenciling, color glazing, marbling, lettering, striping, stippling, and graining) to walls, doors, windows, baseboards, floor, trim, and other surfaces of buildings; and wood and metal objects, equipment in order to shield, uphold, garnish, or refurbish them. Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications: You must meet all eligibility and qualification requirements by the closing date of the job announcement. You must meet the following SCREEN-OUT(S) required for this position. Ability to lead or supervise employees in the performance of painting-decorative plaster work including: Monitoring work in progress to identify deficiencies and direct corrective action to ensure work meets project specifications and established quality standards; Providing direction and guidance to employees on proper decorative painting and decorative plaster techniques, including: specialty finishes, ornamental plaster, moldings, cornices, and proper use of materials and troweling/finishing methods; and Using an inventory management system (i.e., MAXIMO) to track materials, process material requests, and purchase supplies and materials for a paint shop.

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Application Deadline: 2026-04-01