painter-decorator

Location
Calgary, AB
T3N0S8
Salary
$28.85 hourly
Additional Information
- Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 40 to 50 hours per week
- Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- Experience: Experience an asset
Work site environment
- Outdoors
- Underground
- At heights
- Confined spaces
- Odours
Work setting
- Various locations
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
- Advise consumers on colours and choice of wall coverings
- Erect scaffolding and swing stages and attach rigging
- Apply paint, wallpaper and other materials and finishes to interior and exterior surfaces
Equipment and machinery experience
- Airless spray equipment
- Brush painting
- Conventional spray painting
- Electrostatic applications equipment
- Multi-ratio pump spraying
- Patterned rollers
- Roller painting
- Thermal spray equipment
Testing equipment experience
- Moisture gauges
- Wet micron gauges
- Dry micron gauges
- Holiday detector
Surface preparation experience
- Drywall taping/patching
- Water/hydroblasting
- Steam cleaning
- Flame cleaning
- Sandblasters
Coating/application specialization
- Aggregate painting
- Sign painting
- Novelty and decorative effects
- Fibreglassing
- Fire retardants
- Graphics painting
- Surface gilding
- Multi-color finishes
- Gas proofing materials
- Urethanes
- Metallized coatings
- Powdered coatings
- Tank linings
- Dipping
- Lead based removal and encapsulation
- Paint spraying
Wood finishing specialization
- Graining
- Marbleizing
- Staining
- Glazing
Wall covering specialization
- Wallpaper
- Vinyl
- Fabrics/upholstery
- Wood veneers
- Foils
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
- Steel-toed safety boots
Personal suitability
- Client focus
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Reliability
- Team player
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