Personal Summary:
Multi skilled, hard working and efficient from a practical background having worked in the construction industry as a Painter/Decorator for over 30 years with a proven track record of ensuring work is undertaken to specification and completed on time.
Professional Experience & Competencies:
My professional experience involves undertaking high quality painting work covering repairs, refurbishment and upgrades to a range of housing and other properties and buildings working individually, as part of a team and as a supervisor. I provide a responsive service to clients, liaising effectively with customers and other contractors.
Experience of decorative finishing such as:
• Application of all types of paint systems by brush and roller for interiors and exteriors
• Fitting and hanging wall coverings
• Preparation of surfaces for the application of decorative and/or protective finishes
• Application of specialist finishes such as graining, marbling
• Ames taping and filling
• Application of various floor paints ie. Epoxy and water based
• Application of road marking paints, eg. runways
Experience of industrial painting such as:
• Experience of working in industrial settings and working on industrial, marine and mechanical structures
• Experience of paint application equipment, sandblasting, spray equipment and brush treatment working on high end marine work, eg. leisure boats, fishing industry boats providing high quality finishes
• Preparation of work areas by special treatments and abrasive blasting
• Application of industrial finishes including paint spraying/by brush
• Application of T-wash to galvanized steelworks
Awareness and knowledge of Health & Safety/Risk Assessment issues:
• Working at heights – height safety awareness/equipment standards, eg. safe erection of scaffolding, ladders, etc.
• Working knowledge of confined spaces and their hazards
• Working knowledge of COSHH
• Manual handling – experience of complying with safe working practices and assessment of risk.
• Experience of maintaining a safe working site including safety precautions for operating machinery, awareness of potential hazards, use of personal protective clothing/equipment, completion of risk assessments and method statements
Personal skills:
Good communication and inter-personal skills
Ability to work on own initiative or work within team setting
Ability to work to deadlines
Excellent eye for detail
Training and supervisory experience
Full clean driving licence
Basic computer skills
Experience of night shift working patterns (12 hour shifts)
Vocational Qualifications:
4 year Apprenticeship Painter & Decorator with N. Morrison (Painter & Decorator) and Hebridean Decorators
Scottish Vocational Qualification (SVQ) Construction: Painting & Decorating Level 2
Other Training:
Construction Skills Certification Scheme/Health & Safety Test
Emergency First Aid at Work Certificate
Fire Safety courses
Ladder Safety Course
Portafleck Spray Painting Course
Work History:
Sept 2014 – Oct 2015–
Alex Murray Construction – Painter & Decorator
Dec 2013 – Aug 2014 –
BiFab, Arnish Point – Painter & latterly Janitor/Handyman
1995 to Dec 2013 –
Self employed Painter & Decorator (with one employee)
1988-1995 –
H. Walker & Son – Foreman Painter & Decorator
1987-1988 –
Nuttal – Painter/Shotblaster
1978-1987 –
Hebridean Decorators – Painter & Decorator and Norman Morrison – Painter & Decorator (Apprenticeship)
Summary of some previous projects undertaken:
Western Isles Hospital (new build) – Painter Supervisor in charge of 18 staff to undertake all painting work for this new build
Western Isles Council – painterwork – cyclical maintenance of local authority housing stock, schools, Sports Centre, care homes
Marine industry work – paint treatment to leisure boats, fishing industry boats and industrial structures
Stornoway Airport – internal painterwork of offices for Bristows Helicopters and Airport Terminal building
Various Churches/Church buildings – internal/external painterwork using graining skills
Uig Lodge – full renovation of Lodge building
Nessglaze Ltd – varnishing and staining of replacement/new windows and doors
Fort George, Ardersier – internal painterwork of buildings
New pier at Holm, Stornoway – industrial painting of steelworks