Painting job descriptions
Every role a $20M business in this industry hires for: 21 Role Blueprints, from leadership to the field. Open any role for its full template and a free Word file.
Leadership 5
Chief Executive Officer
A painting chief executive officer decides what a home painting company sells, where it grows, and how much work goes to its own crews or to subcontracted painters.
Chief Operating Officer
A painting chief operating officer turns signed contracts into finished, profitable paint jobs, done the same way at every branch.
Chief Financial Officer
A painting chief financial officer plans and guards a home painting company's cash, sets the budgets, and keeps payroll and job costs accurate.
General Manager
A painting general manager runs one branch of a residential painting company, with its estimators, crew leaders and office staff.
Director of Operations
A painting director of operations makes sure every branch of a home painting company works the same way and hits its goals.
Managers 8
Field Supervisor / Crew Leader
A painting crew leader runs a house painting job with a small crew: setting up each morning, splitting the work, painting alongside the crew and checking the finish before the homeowner sees it.
HR Manager
A painting HR manager finds, hires and keeps painters, crew leaders and office staff for a company that repaints homes and refinishes cabinets.
Marketing Manager
A painting marketing manager fills the sales calendar with in-home estimates for interior and exterior repaints and cabinet refinishing.
Office Manager
A painting office manager runs billing, crew schedules, paint orders and customer calls for a company that paints homes.
Operations Manager
A painting operations manager runs every crew on the schedule: employee painters, subcontracted painters, crew leaders and the shop that supplies them.
Project Manager
A painting project manager takes each job from the moment a sales rep closes it to final payment.
Sales Manager
A painting sales manager leads the estimators who sell interiors, exteriors and cabinet refinishing in customers' homes.
Shop Manager
A painting shop manager runs the building crews leave from each morning: the paint and sundries, the sprayers and ladders, and sometimes a room where cabinet doors get sprayed.
Office and sales 6
Customer Service Representative
A painting customer service representative is the first person a homeowner reaches about painting rooms, an exterior or cabinets.
Dispatcher
A painting dispatcher decides which crew paints which house each day and tells every homeowner when the crew will arrive.
Bookkeeper
A painting bookkeeper turns paint store tickets, crew timesheets and customer payments into job costs for a residential painting company.
Inventory Specialist
A painting inventory specialist orders each job's tinted paint from the paint store and keeps the shop stocked with the primer, caulk, tape, plastic and roller covers crews use up.
Sales Representative
A painting sales representative visits homes to measure, price and sell painting jobs: rooms, exteriors and cabinets.
Rehash Specialist
A painting rehash specialist works the interior, exterior and cabinet quotes that homeowners never signed, plus the list of past customers.
In the field 2
Apprentice Painter
An apprentice painter learns house painting on a crew, starting with prep: moving furniture, masking, scraping, caulking and sanding.
Journeyman Painter
A journeyman painter preps and paints the inside and outside of customers' homes and refinishes kitchen cabinets, working on their own.
Get all 21 Role Blueprints for painting
Every job description above in one download, as editable Word files. We email you the link so you have it when the next seat opens.
Start Hiring Now.
Tell us who you need to hire. Compare plans, then work with HireBus to set up your first role.
…we’ve received so many applications! LOVE IT!Ryan Lis, Squeegee Magic
Plan details, setup costs, and advertising spend · See pricing