Wanted: human paintball tester with high pain threshold

A British paintball company is offering an "extremely competitive" salary to someone willing to have balls of paint fired at them.

UKPaintball.co.uk is looking to hire a "human bullet impact tester" to help conduct health and safety checks during the Christmas rush.

It is an unusual, yet crucial role, owner Justin Toohig told the Daily Telegraph. "It is important for our health and safety checks that before any new batches of paint balls are given to paying customers, we check for faults and monitor the damage they can do to the body if they hit an area not protected by safety gear or clothing," he said.

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The company says it offers flexible working hours of just one or two hours a day, travel expenses and a pro rata wage of £40,000.

It does warn that the role may pose a risk of pain, discomfort and some bruising and that the successful applicant may be required to wear limited items of clothing in order to test for "worst case scenarios".

"We want to hear from people with a high pain threshold and those to whom fear is a foreign concept," said Toohig.