Work site environment

• Outdoors
• At heights
• Confined spaces
• Odours

Work setting

• Various locations
• On-site customer service

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
• 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
• Estimate costs and materials

Credentials

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

• Working at heights training
• First Aid Certificate
• CPR Certificate
• Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) Certificate
• Fall Arrest Protection Training Course
• Forklift Operator Certification

Experience and specialization

Equipment and machinery experience

• Airless spray equipment
• Brush painting
• Conventional spray painting
• Electrostatic applications equipment
• Patterned rollers
• Roller painting

Testing equipment experience

• Moisture gauges
• Sling psychrometer
• Thermometers
• Wet micron gauges
• Dry micron gauges

Surface preparation experience

• Drywall taping/patching
• Steam cleaning
• Flame cleaning
• Sandblasters

Coating/application specialization

• Fire retardants
• Multi-color finishes
• Metallized coatings
• Lead based removal and encapsulation
• Paint spraying

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)

Personal suitability

• Client focus
• Flexibility
• Initiative
• Reliability
• Team player