Overview
Languages
English
Education
- No degree, certificate or diploma
Experience
2 years to less than 3 years
Work setting
- Various locations
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Prepare, clean and sand surfaces to be painted
- Repair cracks and holes
- Mix paint to desired colour and texture
- Measure, cut and apply wallpaper and other fabric to walls
- Erect scaffolding and swing stages and attach rigging
- Apply paint, wallpaper and other materials and finishes to interior and exterior surfaces
Experience and specialization
Equipment and machinery experience
- Airless spray equipment
- Brush painting
- Conventional spray painting
- Multi-ratio pump spraying
- Patterned rollers
- Roller painting
- Thermal spray equipment
Testing equipment experience
- Moisture gauges
- Thermometers
- Wet micron gauges
- Dry micron gauges
Surface preparation experience
- Drywall taping/patching
- Water/hydroblasting
- Steam cleaning
- Sandblasters
Coating/application specialization
- Aggregate painting
- Novelty and decorative effects
- Fibreglassing
- Surface gilding
- Multi-color finishes
- Metallized coatings
- Powdered coatings
- Dipping
- Paint spraying
Wood finishing specialization
- Staining
- Glazing
Wall covering specialization
- Wallpaper
- Vinyl
- Fabrics/upholstery
- Wood veneers
- Foils
Additional information
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Attention to detail
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Physically demanding
Weight handling
- Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
Own tools/equipment
- Tools
- Steel-toed safety boots