Buildings and Grounds Painter

A Typical Day

The Buildings and Grounds Painter is responsible for effective project completion of in-house painting needs of the assets of Site Hilmar production facility.  

Job Responsibilities

• Utilize basic power tools, welding equipment, forklifts, and articulating booms, to perform job duties
• Assess painting job requirements, including Safety considerations, estimated time, materials and necessary surface preparation.
• Prepare surfaces, mix paints accurately, and apply coatings to ensure longevity and high-quality finish. Effectively communicate project details and timelines to coordinators and relevant departments to ensure alignment and minimal disruption. 
• Perform minor painting tasks on parking lots and/or driving surfaces as needed.
• Conduct timely analysis and repairs to maintain Hilmar property assets.
• Support general facility operations as required. 
• Interact professionally with employees across all levels of the organization, ensuring a positive service-oriented approach. 
• Ensure all safety procedures are followed according to HCC safety policies.
• Utilize a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) to create and manage work orders. 
• Active participation and ownership in your training and development program and associated activities, classes and events, which will be held before, during, after shifts and during scheduled days off.  
• Place high priority on food safety and sanitation by understanding and executing HCC’s food safety and sanitation policies and procedures. 
• Hold self and others accountable to HCC’s food safety & sanitation guidelines and policies by communicating any food safety incident, observation, or opportunity to your leadership team or teammates. 
• Participate in food safety and sanitation root cause analysis and improvement activities when required.  
• Prioritize safety above all other job duties by having a safety-first approach at all times. 
• Report any safety issues, observations, opportunities to your teams and follow up.  
• Participate in departmental safety teams.
• Promote Company Culture
• Achieve common business goals through cooperative alignment with all departments.
   

What You Will Need

• English skills must be proficient to understand, read, write and speak English
• Must be able to work weekends, holidays and rotating shifts (day/swing/graveyard)
• 1-year industrial painting experience or related experience 
• 1- year preparation experience for painting projects
• Experience working with Microsoft Office Software such as Word, Excel and Outlook
• Pass a pre-employment skills assessment test
• Ability to lift up to 60lbs

What Will Put You Ahead

• High School diploma or GED from an accredited institution
• 1 year SAP experience 
• 2 years of dairy manufacturing experience
• Proficiency on position specific maintenance skill requirements form
   

Physical Demands & Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee will be required to:
•Stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle or feel and reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl and talk or hear.
•Stand and walk almost the entire workday.
•Employees must be physically capable of working in any of the job tasks within the cheese plant.
•Required to work at heights and in fairly small areas.
•Pushing, pulling, reaching, bending, stooping, squatting, kneeling, handling and grasping, twisting/turning, repetitive bending.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to the following: 
•Exposure to dust, fumes, smoke, gases, or other irritating substances.
•Exposure to solvents or chemicals.
•Exposure to slippery walking surfaces: water.
•Exposure to marked changes in temperature and humidity depending on time of year.
Working surface is primarily concrete. Where standing is required, there are rubber mats which are one-half inch thick.