College Recruiting

Recruiting Program

Valspar's college recruiting program is designed to actively recruit and hire undergraduate and graduate students for permanent jobs as well as internship and COOP assignments. We have available employment opportunities at facilities throughout the United States.

We actively recruit in the following fields: Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Accounting, Finance, Information Technology and Computer Science, Operations Management and General Business Management.

Students hired through Valspar’s college recruiting process are placed into the following
areas of our business:

Engineering

  • Process Engineering
  • Project Engineering
  • Shift Supervision

Chemistry

  • Research and Development
  • Quality Control

General Business

  • Accounting and Finance
  • Treasury and Tax
  • Internal Audit
  • Information Technology
  • Supply Chain

We seek students meeting the following qualifications:

  • Have obtained an overall and major GPA of 3.0 or better.
  • Demonstrate maturity, self-confidence, self-initiative and leadership.
  • Demonstrate innovative and creative thought processes and excellent problem solving skills.
  • Practice strong organization skills.
  • Have developed excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Have developed strong interpersonal skills and are able to build solid working relationships with co-workers and team members.

Interested candidates are encouraged to submit their resumes to collegeresumes@valspar.com throughout the year, specifying the type of job they are interested in applying to and geographic preferences. A Valspar representative will contact applying candidates upon receipt of their resume.

In addition to our college recruiting efforts, students are encouraged to visit our internal job posting listings under the title "Current Openings" and also visit our external job searches at www.careerbuilder.com.