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Lightmen Painting is hiring an entry-level painter to join our team in the Portland area.
This role is for someone who wants to learn the trade the right way, work hard, stay coachable, and grow into a strong long-term painter. You do not need years of experience, but you do need a solid attitude, reliability, and the ability to follow direction.

You will assist with residential and commercial painting projects, including prep work, masking, sanding, caulking, priming, brushing, rolling, cleanup, and jobsite organization. This is a hands-on role for someone who wants real experience in the field, not just a paycheck for standing around.

We are looking for people who show up, work hard, learn fast, and take pride in improving over time. If you want to build actual skill and become valuable in the trade, this is a strong place to start.

Lightmen Painting is hiring a canvasser / appointment setter to help generate local painting leads and book qualified estimates.

This role is for someone who is comfortable talking to people, staying active, handling rejection, and keeping energy up without needing to be pushed every five minutes. Your job is to start conversations, create opportunities, and help get estimate appointments booked.

This is a field and outreach-based role. You may be working neighborhoods, following targeted routes, speaking with homeowners, and helping identify people who need interior, exterior, or cabinet painting services. We want someone who can stay sharp, stay moving, and represent the company professionally.

If you can communicate well, keep a solid attitude, and stay consistent, this role can produce real income and real opportunity.

Lightmen Painting is hiring an experienced painter with at least 3 years of hands-on field experience.

This role is for someone who already knows how to prep properly, produce clean work, move efficiently, and handle real jobsite responsibility without needing constant hand-holding. We are looking for painters who care about quality, understand professional standards, and can contribute immediately.

You should be comfortable with residential and commercial painting work, including prep, brushing, rolling, masking, spraying, ladders, cleanup, and jobsite professionalism. Cabinet experience, fine-finish work, and exterior repaint experience are all strong pluses.

This is not an entry-level role. We want someone who already understands the trade and wants to work with a company that values consistency, clean work, communication, and production.

Lightmen Painting is hiring a lead painter to help run projects, maintain quality, and keep production moving in the field.

This role is for someone with strong hands-on painting experience who can lead by example, keep jobs organized, communicate clearly, and maintain standards without constant supervision. You should know how to prep properly, paint efficiently, solve field problems, and help less experienced painters stay productive.

The lead painter is not just another body on the job. This person helps set the tone, maintain flow, and protect quality. We want someone who works hard, thinks ahead, communicates like an adult, and takes pride in clean work.

If you know the trade and want more responsibility without being trapped in dumb chaos every day, this role makes sense.

Lightmen Painting is hiring a driven, consistent lead generator to help book qualified painting estimates in the Portland area.
Your job is simple:

• Start conversations
• Follow up fast
• Book qualified estimates

This is not a sit-around-and-look-busy role. We want someone who can communicate clearly, stay consistent without babysitting, handle rejection, and keep activity moving every day.

You will be helping generate real painting leads through a proven 4-channel system that includes Facebook groups, direct messages, local partnership outreach, and classified platforms like Craigslist and Nextdoor.

This is a performance-driven opportunity with real upside for the right person. Strong performers can grow into a more stable long-term role as the company grows. The uploaded playbook frames the role around starting conversations, booking estimates, and consistently producing activity across Facebook, DMs, partner outreach, and classified channels.

Lightmen Painting is hiring a residential painting estimator to help inspect projects, build accurate proposals, and win profitable work in the Portland area.

This role is for someone who can communicate well with homeowners, understand scope, identify project needs, and create clear, professional estimates. You must be able to walk a job, ask the right questions, spot issues, and turn that information into pricing that makes sense for both the client and the company.

You will be working on residential painting opportunities such as interiors, exteriors, cabinet refinishing, and related repaint projects. The right person is professional, organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable talking with homeowners while also thinking like a business operator.

This is not just a sales role and not just a technical role. It is both. We want someone who can help close work without pricing jobs like a maniac.

Lightmen Painting is hiring a commercial painting estimator to help price projects, build scopes, and support the growth of our commercial work.

This role is for someone who understands commercial estimating, project scope, production planning, and professional communication. You should be comfortable reviewing plans, walking sites, identifying labor and material needs, and creating estimates that are accurate, competitive, and profitable.

Commercial painting is a different animal than residential. It requires stronger planning, better attention to logistics, and a clear understanding of scope, access, scheduling, and production. We want someone who can think clearly, price intelligently, and help us pursue the right jobs.

The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, experienced, organized, and capable of handling more complex estimating needs without making a mess of the numbers.

Lightmen Painting is looking for an experienced painter who wants more than just another job.

This role is built for someone with real field experience who wants the opportunity to grow into leadership, run work, build a crew, and potentially move into a work-to-own / partner-style opportunity over time.

We are not looking for someone who just wants to clock in, do the minimum, and disappear. We want someone who thinks bigger, takes ownership, communicates well, understands production, and wants to help build something real.

You should already know how to paint professionally, manage yourself on the job, maintain quality, and carry responsibility. Over time, the right person may have the opportunity to take on more leadership, help manage projects, help drive production, and step into a larger operational role tied to growth and ownership potential.

This is a serious opportunity for the right person. Not for dabblers. Not for drama. Not for people who love excuses more than results.