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Commercial Painter resume examples

Trades Painting and Decorating Jobs · 6 designs · Word & PDF · Free

6 resume examples for Commercial Painter roles in Trades Painting and Decorating, in Achievement Led, Editorial and Executive Classic layouts. Each is a complete, formatted document — open it in Word, replace the content with your own, and export a PDF when you are done. Free to download.

6 Commercial Painter resume designs

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Commercial Painter resume example, in full

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Hans L. Nunnally

Commercial Painter

Sacramento, CA · (916) 555 0131 · name@example.com · linkedin.com/in/hanslnunnally

Key Qualifications

EXPERIENCE

Ten years of commercial painting, seven as a union journey level painter

INDUSTRIES

Public schools, state and county buildings, healthcare, higher education

SPECIALTIES

Airless spray application, drywall and plaster prep, epoxy and urethane coatings, high work from lifts

SYSTEMS

Procore, Bluebeam Revu, Sherwin Williams and Benjamin Moore specification tools

CREDENTIALS

Finishing Trades Institute journey level certification, Lead Safe Renovator certification

EDUCATION

Finishing trades apprenticeship, Sacramento, California

Executive Summary

Journey level commercial painter with ten years on schools, courthouses and state office buildings in the Sacramento Valley, seven of them through the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades. Sprays, rolls and brushes to specification, works clean around occupants and keeps daily production high without leaving punch items behind.

Signature Achievements

  • Painted a one hundred and forty thousand square foot high school over a single summer break and handed it over two days before classes returned.
  • Averaged twenty two hundred square feet of prepped and coated wall a day on open floor plan work.
  • Finished a courthouse repaint with eleven punch items on a scope covering ninety rooms.
  • Cut masking material use on a school district contract by roughly a quarter by building reusable shields for door frames.
  • Held zero recordable injuries across seven years of boom lift and scaffold work.

Professional Experience

Journey Level Painter

Capitol Valley Finishes, Sacramento, CA 2020 to present

Union painter on public works contracts from two hundred thousand to three million dollars for schools and state agencies.

  • Prepares substrates by patching, sanding, caulking and priming to the specification before any topcoat.
  • Sprays walls, ceilings, doors and structural steel with airless and fine finish equipment.
  • Applies epoxy coatings in restrooms, kitchens and laboratories where washability is required.
  • Documents wet film readings and coverage rates so that the inspector can verify the specification.

Painter

Delta Crossing Painting Contractors, West Sacramento, CA 2017 to 2020

Commercial painter on tenant improvement and retail work for a contractor of forty employees.

  • Repainted occupied office suites on night shifts so tenants could work through the day.
  • Matched existing colors and sheens on patch and repair work across nine buildings.
  • Set and moved scaffold and lifts safely in tight interior spaces.

Painter Apprentice

American River Coatings Company, Rancho Cordova, CA 2015 to 2017

Registered finishing trades apprenticeship with classroom instruction and supervised field hours.

  • Completed surface preparation, spray application and safety modules and topped out in 2018.

Licensure and Certification

Journey level member, International Union of Painters and Allied Trades District Council 16

Environmental Protection Agency Lead Safe Renovator certification

Occupational Safety and Health Administration thirty hour construction card

Boom lift and scissor lift operator certification

Education

Finishing trades apprenticeship, Finishing Trades Institute, Sacramento, California, completed 2018

High school diploma, Luther Burbank High School, Sacramento, California

Core Skills

Airless spray application · Surface preparation · Epoxy coatings · Color and sheen matching · Scaffold and lift work · Specification reading · Masking and containment · Production tracking · Punch list close out

Commercial Painter resume examples — FAQs

How many Commercial Painter resume examples are there?

6 designs, covering Achievement, Editorial, Classic and Minimalist layouts. They all carry the same sections — the difference is the layout, so pick whichever suits how much experience you need to fit on the page.

Can I edit the Commercial Painter resume examples?

Yes. Every example downloads as a Word (.docx) file with editable text, headings and spacing, so you can replace the content with your own without rebuilding the layout. A PDF version is also available for each design.

Are these resume examples free?

Yes. Every example on this page downloads free as an editable Word document or a PDF, with no signup, account or payment required.

What format do the resume examples come in?

Each design is available as a Word (.docx) file and as a PDF. Use the Word file to edit the content, and the PDF when an employer asks for a fixed-layout document.

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