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Additional Skills
- Work at heights, on scaffolding or swing stages
- Erect and install scaffolding, falsework and other working platforms
Weight Handling
- Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
- Up to 45 kg (100 lbs)
Work Setting
- Residential
- Commercial
Own Tools/Equipment
- Steel-toed safety boots
Work Site Environment
- Outdoors
- At heights
- Dusty
Transportation/Travel Information
- Valid driver's licence
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Manual dexterity
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Work Location Information
- Various locations
Personal Suitability
- Team player
- Excellent oral communication
- Dependability
- Judgement
- Reliability
Plasterer Specific Skills
- Mix plaster ingredients to desired consistency
- Clean and prepare surfaces
- Apply, level and smooth coats of plaster
- Trowel or spray coats of stucco over exteriors of buildings to form weatherproof surfaces
- Finish corners and angles and create decorative designs in finish coat, if required
- Mould and install ornamental plaster panels, cornices and trim
Drywall Installer and Finisher Specific Skills
- Fill joints, nail indentations, holes and cracks with joint compound using trowel and broad knife
- Tape over joints using taping machine and embed tape in compound
- Smooth out excess compound and allow coat to dry
- Apply successive coats of compound and sand seams and joints
- Position and secure sheets to metal or wooden studs or joists
Lather Specific Skills
- Install vapour barriers and thermal and sound insulation
- Cut openings in lath for heating and ventilation piping, ducts and electrical outlets
- Install corner beads and wire mesh around beams to which plaster is to be applied