• Home
• Apply
• Go To College
• Get Money
• Prepare
• Plan a Career
• About Us
• Support

Career Details :: Painting, Coating, and Decorating Workers

Description

Paint, coat, or decorate articles, such as furniture, glass, plateware, pottery, jewelry, cakes, toys, books, or leather.

Experience

No previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, a person can become a general office clerk even if he/she has never worked in an office before.

Education

These occupations may require a high school diploma or GED certificate. Some may require a formal training course to obtain a license.

Training

Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few days to a few months of training. Usually, an experienced worker could show you how to do the job.

Tasks

• Immerses workpiece into coating material for specified time.
• Applies coating, such as paint, ink, or lacquer, to protect or decorate workpiece surface, using spray gum, pen, or brush.
• Reads job order and inspects workpiece to determine work procedure and materials required.
• Drains or wipes workpieces to remove excess coating material or to facilitate setting of finish coat on workpiece.
• Rinses coated workpiece to remove excess coating material or to facilitate setting of finish coat on workpiece.
• Places coated workpiece in oven or dryer for specified time to dry or harden finish.
• Selects and mixes ingredients to prepare coating substance according to specifications, using paddle or mechanical mixer.
• Conceals blemishes in workpiece, such as nicks and dents, using filler, such as putty.
• Cleans and maintains tools and equipment, using solvent, brushes, and rags.
• Positions and glues decorative pieces in cutout section, following pattern.
• Cleans surface of workpiece in preparation for coating, using cleaning fluid, solvent, brushes, scraper, steam, sandpaper, or cloth.
• Examines finished surface of workpiece to verify conformance to specifications and retouches defective areas of surface.
• Melts or heats coating material to specified temperature.
• Cuts out sections in surface of material to be inlaid with decorative pieces, using pattern and knife or scissors.

Related Careers

• Bench Workers, Jewelry
  
• Mold Makers, Hand
  
• Molding and Casting Workers
  
• Sewers, Hand
  
• Shoe and Leather Workers and Repairers
  

Important Abilities

• Near Vision
• Visual Color Discrimination
• Manual Dexterity
• Information Ordering
• Arm-Hand Steadiness

General Work Activities

• Handling and Moving Objects
• Performing General Physical Activities
• Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
• Monitor Processes, Material, Surroundings
• Evaluating Information Against Standards

Important Skills

• Product Inspection
  
• Equipment Selection
  
• Monitoring
  
• Operation and Control
  
• Problem Identification
  

Frequent Work Context

• Indoors
• Using Hands on Objects, Tools, Controls
• Consequence of Error
• Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
• Importance of Being Exact or Accurate

Related Majors

Major	Add to XapPack
Advertising Design	[ add ]
Advertising/Graphic Design	[ add ]
Applied Art	[ add ]
Architecture/Art/Design	[ add ]
Art	[ add ]
Art Communication	[ add ]
Art Studio	[ add ]
Art Theory/Practice	[ add ]
Art/Architecture	[ add ]
Art/Art History	[ add ]
Art/Business	[ add ]
Art/Communication	[ add ]
Art/Computer Animation	[ add ]
Art/Design	[ add ]
Art/Fine Arts	[ add ]
Art/Graphic Design	[ add ]
Art/Painting/Printing/Sculpture	[ add ]
Art/Photography	[ add ]
Art/Technology Studies	[ add ]
Art/Video	[ add ]
Arts	[ add ]
Cartooning	[ add ]
Ceramic Art	[ add ]
Ceramics	[ add ]
Ceramics/Ceramic Sculpture	[ add ]
Ceramics/Glass	[ add ]
Commercial Art	[ add ]
Commercial Art/Computer Design	[ add ]
Commercial Design	[ add ]
Commercial Illustration	[ add ]
Computer Art	[ add ]
Computer Graphics	[ add ]
Creative/Visual Arts	[ add ]
Design Graphics	[ add ]
Digital Art/Design	[ add ]
Digital Arts/Multimedia Design	[ add ]
Digital Media	[ add ]
Electronic Arts	[ add ]
Electronic Integrated Arts	[ add ]
Film/Art	[ add ]
Fine Arts/Computer Graphics	[ add ]
Fine/Applied Arts	[ add ]
Graphic Arts	[ add ]
Graphic Communication	[ add ]
Graphic Communications	[ add ]
Graphic Design	[ add ]
Graphic Design/Commercial Art/Illustration	[ add ]
Graphic Design/Illustration/Advertising Art	[ add ]
Graphic Design/Multimedia	[ add ]
Graphic Design/Photography	[ add ]
Graphic Design/Technology	[ add ]
Graphic/Advertising Design	[ add ]
Graphics/Fine Arts	[ add ]
History of Decorative Arts	[ add ]
Illustration	[ add ]
Illustration/Visual Essay	[ add ]
Imaging Science	[ add ]
Imaging Systems Management	[ add ]
Imaging/Photographic Technology	[ add ]
Interactive Design	[ add ]
Interdisciplinary Arts	[ add ]
Jewelry/Metalsmithing	[ add ]
Metalcrafts/Jewelry	[ add ]
Metals/Jewelry	[ add ]
Metalsmithing	[ add ]
Packaging Design	[ add ]
Packaging Science	[ add ]
Packaging Technology	[ add ]
Photography/Graphic Arts	[ add ]
Product Design	[ add ]
Studio Art	[ add ]
Studio Arts	[ add ]

Institutions Offering Related Majors

No institutions found.