Queensland

Painting and Decorating

Site Supervisor Licence

Licence Overview

A Site Supervisor licence is provided to an individual working for a licensed contractor to oversee building work that matches the contractor’s licence class.

This licence allows one to manage tasks within the following scope:

Painting and decorating

  • Apply paint or other substance for protective, decorative or technical purposes, including colour matching.
  • Apply texture coatings.
  • Apply wallpaper.
  • Prepare surfaces for application of paint or other protective, decorative or technical materials.
  • Apply cement render to no more than 8mm thickness.
  • Incidental work of another class.

Painting and decorating excluding applying cement render

  • Apply paint or other substance for protective, decorative or technical purposes, including colour matching.
  • Apply texture coatings.
  • Apply wall paper.
  • Prepare surfaces for application of paint or other protective, decorative or technical materials.
  • Incidental work of another class.

Technical Qualifications

Successful completion of either of the following courses:

  • An apprenticeship in painting and decorating including the CPCCSP3003 Apply trowelled texture coat finishes

or

  • CPC30620 Certificate III in Painting and Decorating and the CPCCSP3003 Apply trowelled texture coat finishes

Note(s):

  • Qualifications previously achieved will be reviewed to ensure they align with the current minimum and necessary unit requirements.

Are you and your business at risk for unlicensed activity?

Australia’s building regulators are intensifying their crackdown on unlicensed and improperly licensed work. Across all states, hundreds of penalties are issued each year, with fines often reaching into the multi-million-dollar range — and businesses being ordered to close.

In Queensland, hundreds of fines have been issued for unlicensed contracting. In NSW, 2024 prosecutions alone resulted in hundreds of penalties, and in Victoria, recent years have seen multi-million-dollar fines issued. Enforcement is ramping up, with large-scale audit blitzes, stop-work orders, and mandatory rectifications becoming increasingly common.

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