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Category: Support Staff
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Department: Facilities Management
Locations: North Adams, MA
Posted: Jun 24, 2025
Closes: Open Until Filled
Type: Full-time
Position ID: 189546
About Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts:
At MCLA, we're for all - and focused on each - of our students. As a 2025 Top Ten Public College, classes are taught bycators who care deeply about teaching, and about seeing their students thrive on every level of their lives. Nearly 93% of our graduates landpetitive jobs or are accepted by some of the best grad schools in the country. We engage in the most nationally relevant conversations by hosting some of the most celebrated thinkers and speakers on our campus in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, an area known for its mountain ranges, hiking trails, and panoramic views. Our hometown of North Adams is brimming with creative energy and the regional economy is booming as a result. In nearly every way possible, the experience at MCLA is designed to elevate you as an individual, a leader, and amunicator, fully empowered to make your impression on the world.
Job Description:
Applies paint, varnish, wallpaper and similar materials in finishing and decorating interior and exterior surfaces; mixes and blends paints; does hand lettering of signs and posters; uses putty, plaster and other materials in preparing surfaces; performs related work as required.
Prepares surfaces for painting by washing, dusting, sanding, puttying and other means.
Erects ladders and scaffolding.
Mixes and matches paints.
Applies paint, stain, varnish, wallpaper and other finishes to surfaces by means of brush or spray equipment.
Removes and replaces broken window glass.
Cleans brushes and equipment and removes debris from area, which has been finished.
May operate self-propelled paint spraying machine to paint traffic lines in roadways.
May repair spray guns and other equipment used in spray painting.
Requirements:
Qualifications Required at Hire:
Considerable knowledge of the tools, materials, methods and standard practices used in the painting trade.
Considerable knowledge of the methods of preparing wood, metal, glass, plaster, cement and other materials and surfaces for painting.
Ability to paints and other finishes by brush or air gun and to mix and match paints.
Ability to climb and work from scaffolding or at some distance above the ground.
Ability to understand and execute oral and written orders without immediate supervision.
May be required to possess a Massachusetts Rigger's license when appropriate.
Qualifications Acquired on Job:
Increased ability to access and address painting issues as they relate to application in certain situations. Increased knowledge in the use of specialty tools used in painting.
Training in campus operating prores and policies.
The ability to work within a team setting.
May obtain a Massachusetts Rigger's license.
Minimum Entrance Requirements:
Should have at least two years of proven success in the painting field.
Must have the ability to climb heights without fear.
License and/or Certification Requirements:
Massachusetts Rigger's license is appropriate.
Additional Information:
This is a full-time, benefitted (Grade 14, Step 1) position in the AFSCME bargaining unit. Bi-weekly salary is $1,969.46.
Massachusetts College of Liberal Artsplies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to provide reasonable amodations to qualified applicants and employees with disabilities. Should you need to request a reasonable amodation for the application process, please email Brenda Stokes, Executive Director of Human Resources.
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts is deeplymitted to fostering amunity of excellence, equity, diversity, and inclusion. We provide equal access tocational, co-curricular and employment opportunities for all applicants, students, and employees regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, marital or parental status, veteran status, or membership in any other legally protected class. Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts does not discriminate on the basis of sex in anycational program or activity that they operate, which extends to admission and employment.
Inquiries about Title IX, Equal Opportunity, or ADA/504 and other non-discrimination policies may be directed to MCLA's Interim Title IX and Equal Opportunity Coordinator, to the Assistant Secretary of the Department of Education Office for Civil Rights, or both.
Lucas Morrill
Interim Title IX and EO Coordinator
375 Church Street, North Adams, MA 01247
Telephone: ...
Titleixmcla
U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights
33 Arch Street, 9th Floor Boston, MA 02119-1424
Telephone: ...; FAX: ...; TDD ...
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Category: Support Staff
Subscribe:
Department: Facilities Management
Locations: North Adams, MA
Posted: Jun 24, 2025
Closes: Open Until Filled
Type: Full-time
Position ID: 189546
About Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts:
At MCLA, we're for all - and focused on each - of our students. As a 2025 Top Ten Public College, classes are taught bycators who care deeply about teaching, and about seeing their students thrive on every level of their lives. Nearly 93% of our graduates landpetitive jobs or are accepted by some of the best grad schools in the country. We engage in the most nationally relevant conversations by hosting some of the most celebrated thinkers and speakers on our campus in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, an area known for its mountain ranges, hiking trails, and panoramic views. Our hometown of North Adams is brimming with creative energy and the regional economy is booming as a result. In nearly every way possible, the experience at MCLA is designed to elevate you as an individual, a leader, and amunicator, fully empowered to make your impression on the world.
Job Description:
Applies paint, varnish, wallpaper and similar materials in finishing and decorating interior and exterior surfaces; mixes and blends paints; does hand lettering of signs and posters; uses putty, plaster and other materials in preparing surfaces; performs related work as required.
Prepares surfaces for painting by washing, dusting, sanding, puttying and other means.
Erects ladders and scaffolding.
Mixes and matches paints.
Applies paint, stain, varnish, wallpaper and other finishes to surfaces by means of brush or spray equipment.
Removes and replaces broken window glass.
Cleans brushes and equipment and removes debris from area, which has been finished.
May operate self-propelled paint spraying machine to paint traffic lines in roadways.
May repair spray guns and other equipment used in spray painting.
Requirements:
Qualifications Required at Hire:
Considerable knowledge of the tools, materials, methods and standard practices used in the painting trade.
Considerable knowledge of the methods of preparing wood, metal, glass, plaster, cement and other materials and surfaces for painting.
Ability to paints and other finishes by brush or air gun and to mix and match paints.
Ability to climb and work from scaffolding or at some distance above the ground.
Ability to understand and execute oral and written orders without immediate supervision.
May be required to possess a Massachusetts Rigger's license when appropriate.
Qualifications Acquired on Job:
Increased ability to access and address painting issues as they relate to application in certain situations. Increased knowledge in the use of specialty tools used in painting.
Training in campus operating prores and policies.
The ability to work within a team setting.
May obtain a Massachusetts Rigger's license.
Minimum Entrance Requirements:
Should have at least two years of proven success in the painting field.
Must have the ability to climb heights without fear.
License and/or Certification Requirements:
Massachusetts Rigger's license is appropriate.
Additional Information:
This is a full-time, benefitted (Grade 14, Step 1) position in the AFSCME bargaining unit. Bi-weekly salary is $1,969.46.
Massachusetts College of Liberal Artsplies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to provide reasonable amodations to qualified applicants and employees with disabilities. Should you need to request a reasonable amodation for the application process, please email Brenda Stokes, Executive Director of Human Resources.
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts is deeplymitted to fostering amunity of excellence, equity, diversity, and inclusion. We provide equal access tocational, co-curricular and employment opportunities for all applicants, students, and employees regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, marital or parental status, veteran status, or membership in any other legally protected class. Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts does not discriminate on the basis of sex in anycational program or activity that they operate, which extends to admission and employment.
Inquiries about Title IX, Equal Opportunity, or ADA/504 and other non-discrimination policies may be directed to MCLA's Interim Title IX and Equal Opportunity Coordinator, to the Assistant Secretary of the Department of Education Office for Civil Rights, or both.
Lucas Morrill
Interim Title IX and EO Coordinator
375 Church Street, North Adams, MA 01247
Telephone: ...
Titleixmcla
U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights
33 Arch Street, 9th Floor Boston, MA 02119-1424
Telephone: ...; FAX: ...; TDD ...
OCR.Bostoned
Job ID: 483342860
Originally Posted on: 6/29/2025
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