Residential Painter

Wage: $24.69/hr

Education: No degree, certificate or diploma

Experience: 3 years to less than 5 years

Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities:

• Attention to detail
• Hand-eye co-ordination
• Physically demanding
• Ability to distinguish between colours
• Bending, crouching, kneeling

Work Location Information: Various locations

Work Site Environment:

• Outdoors
• At heights
• Confined spaces
• Odours

Personal Suitability:

• Reliability
• Client focus
• Initiative
• Flexibility
• Team player
• Effective interpersonal skills

Additional Skills: Estimate costs and materials

Equipment and Machinery Experience:

• Roller painting
• Conventional spray painting
• Brush painting

Specific Skills:

• 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

Weight Handling: Up to 13.5 kg (30 lbs)