Commercial 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 4
Chief Executive Officer
A commercial painting chief executive officer chooses the general contractors, owners and property managers the company works for, and how much bonded backlog it carries.
Chief Operating Officer
A commercial painting chief operating officer oversees field work on every open job: crews, equipment, safety and quality.
Chief Financial Officer
A commercial painting chief financial officer turns progress billing, retainage and job costs into a cash plan the company can bid against.
General Manager
A commercial painting general manager oversees daily business, from which bids go out to how jobs close and get paid.
Managers 9
Field Supervisor
A commercial painting field supervisor runs several painting crews across job sites and checks prep, finish, safety and progress against the general contractor's schedule.
HR Manager
A commercial painting HR manager hires painters, foremen and office staff, gets them started and keeps their training files up to date.
Marketing Manager
A commercial painting marketing manager gets the company on the bid lists of general contractors and the vendor lists of property managers.
Office Manager
A commercial painting office manager handles billing, contracts, insurance papers, submittals and the other paperwork customers ask for before and after a job.
Operations Manager
A commercial painting operations manager assigns crews to jobs each day and moves them when a GC's schedule shifts.
Production Manager
A commercial painting production manager sets how the company's crews paint: the production rates, methods, equipment and quality checks behind every bid and schedule.
Project Manager
A commercial painting project manager runs painting jobs from takeoff to closeout: checking the spec and color schedule, getting products approved, sizing crews and planning lifts.
Sales Manager
A commercial painting sales manager leads the team that bids work to general contractors and sells repaints to owners and property managers.
Warehouse Manager
A commercial painting warehouse manager runs the shop that supplies every job: paint and sundries, spray rigs, ladders, scaffolding, and the trucks and trailers that move them.
Office and sales 5
Customer Service Representative
A commercial painting customer service rep answers calls, emails and bid invitations from property managers, facility managers and general contractors, and books estimate walks for the estimator.
Dispatcher
A commercial painting dispatcher sends painters, foremen, lifts and material to the right building each day and reworks the plan when a general contractor's schedule moves.
Bookkeeper
A commercial painting bookkeeper posts paint, supply and lift rental bills to the right job, sends monthly progress bills to general contractors, and matches each payment to what was billed.
Inventory Specialist
A commercial painting inventory specialist tracks the paint, primers, coatings and sundries crews pull for each building, and orders what the next phase of each job needs.
Sales Representative
A commercial painting sales representative walks buildings, measures and tests the old finishes, and writes proposals for property managers, owners and general contractors.
In the field 3
Apprentice Painter
A commercial painting apprentice learns the trade on office, school, store and apartment jobs, working beside lead painters.
Commercial Painter
A commercial painter preps and paints offices, schools, stores, hospitals and apartment buildings to the architect's spec, often while the building stays open.
Lead Painter
A commercial lead painter runs a crew on site at offices, schools, hospitals and apartment buildings and paints alongside it.
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