
Painter - Austin Industrial (Freeport, TX)
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Job overview
Austin Industrial is hiring a Painter to prepare and coat wood and metal surfaces, equipment, machinery, buildings, and other work areas. The role uses spray guns, brushes, and rollers and includes surface preparation, mixing coatings, and working at heights. Applicants need four years of journeyman-level experience, NCCER credentials, a TWIC Card, and a valid driver’s license. The employer does not sponsor employment visas.
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Full job description
Rate: $24 USD per hour
Description
About Austin Industrial
Austin Industrial provides premier self-perform maintenance, construction, and soft craft service to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for more than 60 years, we offer single-source solutions to our customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries.
To learn more about us, visit https://www.austin-ind.com/what-we-do/industrial .
Painter
Must be able to prepare wood and metal surfaces for painting, and paint equipment, parts, machinery, buildings, and other working areas using a spray gun, brush, and rollers. Other duties may be assigned.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities:
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Reads work orders and receives instructions verbally.
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Prepare the surface using methods appropriate to remove dirt, oil, and grease, removing old paint, smoothing cracks, coating, and filling holes.
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Work at heights with no fear.
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May fill cavities and dents with putty to attain a smooth surface.
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Selects and mixes coating liquid to produce the desired color, according to specifications using a paddle or mechanical mixer.
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May erect scaffolding or set up a ladder to perform tasks above ground level.
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Apply paint to the surface using a spray gun, brush, and/or roller.
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Other duties as assigned.
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Applicants must be legally authorized to work for ANY employer in the United States. Austin Industries is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.
Qualifications Required for this Position:
Education – no minimum education requirements.
Experience – 4 years of Journeyman level experience.
Certification/License : NCCER and a Valid Driver’s License.
Physical, Mental & Environmental Requirements
Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.
Employees must be able to sit, stand, walk, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, reach, and use hands and fingers to perform assigned duties. Positions may require lifting, carrying, pushing, or pulling up to 50 pounds, working at elevations, on uneven surfaces, or in confined spaces. Employees must possess sufficient visual, hearing, communication, and motor skills to safely perform job responsibilities.
Employees must be able to read, comprehend, and follow safety procedures, work instructions, and company policies; exercise sound judgment; solve problems; maintain attention to detail; effectively manage stress; and adapt to changing priorities in a fast-paced work environment.
Work may be performed in industrial and construction environments with exposure to weather conditions, temperature extremes, noise, dust, fumes, moving equipment, vibration, and other site-specific hazards. Employees must be able to wear required personal protective equipment (PPE) and meet all customer, site, regulatory, medical, and fitness-for-duty requirements applicable to the position.
Must be able to perform all job duties while maintaining a constant commitment to safety, quality, and productivity expectations.
Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
See the “Know Your Rights” poster available in English (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088\_EEOC\_KnowYourRights6.12.pdf) and Spanish (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088\_EEOC\_KnowYourRightsSp6.12.pdf) .
No Third-Party Inquiries Please
This Company does not accept and will not consider unsolicited resumes or any other unsolicited candidate information submitted to the Company or any of its employee-owners by staffing agencies, search firms, or third-party recruiters in response to a posted vacancy. The Company will not pay any placement fee(s) without a written agreement to do so ( i.e. , payment must be required pursuant to the terms of a written agreement).
Any unsolicited resumes or candidate information submitted to this Company or any of its employee-owners becomes the property of the Company.
Accessibility Note
If you are a job seeker with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to apply for one of our jobs or have accessibility concerns, please contact the People Services Team at (877) 831-1217.
Qualifications
Licenses & Certifications
Required
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TWIC Card
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NCCER-Ind Painter PV
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Valid Driver's License
Experience
Required
- 4 years: 4 years of Journeyman level experience.
Equal Opportunity Employer
This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws.
For further information, please review the Know Your Rights (https://www.eeoc.gov/poster) notice from the Department of Labor.
How this job compares
Set against the 435 open Painter jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$24/hr
- US median$21–26/hr177 hourly ranges
This rate, $24/hr, is close to the US median midpoint ($24/hr) — in the middle half of Painter hourly ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 37 open Painter jobs in Texas and 435 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- CBRE10 open
- Panelmatic Inc.4 open
- Austin Industries (this employer)3 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience — more than three in four Painter postings that state a minimum ask for (median 2 years, across 190 postings).
- Education
- 1 of the 435 open Painter jobs (under 1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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