Working Foreman Traffic Signal Repairman
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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Posted: January 1, 2012 (5128 days ago)
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Sign Painter and Letterer I
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
HRD
Location
Massachusetts, 02114
Salary
Not specified
Type
Full Time
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Not specified
Job Description
Summary
This job involves hand-painting and lettering signs for highways, traffic, and other public uses, including creating designs, stencils, and patterns from scratch.
Workers also apply gold leaf to doors and assemble signs using tools like saws and riveting guns.
It's a good fit for someone with artistic skills and hands-on experience in painting or signage who enjoys detailed, creative work in a government setting.
Key Requirements
- At least 2 years of experience in sign painting, lettering, or related artistic work
- Ability to design, lay out, and paint letters and designs using brushes, measuring tools, and drawing instruments
- Skills in sketching, stenciling, and filling in patterns with paint, lacquer, or other materials
- Proficiency in applying gold leaf and lettering on surfaces like office doors
- Experience with silk screening, including laying out designs, cutting profilm, and stretching silk
- Capability to operate power tools such as radial arm saws, table saws, portable saws, and riveting guns
- Knowledge of mixing and matching paints, and assembling signs with decal reflectors or cut-out letters
Full Job Description
Incumbents of positions in this series prepare sign letters, designs, stencils and patterns; lay out, sketch or follow designs and patterns; create and paint regulatory, warning, historic and other highway and traffic signs; letter doors; and perform related work as required.The basic purpose of this work is to create a variety of signs and related illustrative materials using hand painting and lettering.
Requirements
Creates signs by designing, laying out and painting letters and designs using measuring, drawing and cutting instruments and brushes.Lays out designs, cuts profilm, stretches silk, adheres profilm to silk and silk screens.
Sketches or follows sign patterns using stencils; and fills in sketches using paint, lacquer, etc. to transfer letters and designs onto billboards, etc.
Applies gold leaf using appropriate methods, techniques and tools to letter office doors.
Lays out decal reflector letters to be assembled on billboard signs.
Performs related duties such as mixing and matching paints; and operating riveting guns to attach cut out letters to signs both in the shop and on the highway.
Sets up radial arm saw, tablesaw, portable saws and other power tools used for production of plywood signs.
Qualifications
2 years of experience required in related work.Additional Information
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