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Summary Job Description | Tasks | |||
Apply hard tile, marble, and wood tile to walls, floors, ceilings, and roof decks. | Align and straighten tile using levels, squares and straightedges. | |||
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Determine and implement the best layout to achieve a desired pattern. | ||||
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Cut and shape tile to fit around obstacles and into odd spaces and corners, using hand and power cutting tools. | ||||
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Finish and dress the joints and wipe excess grout from between tiles, using damp sponge. | ||||
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Apply mortar to tile back, position the tile and press or tap with trowel handle to affix tile to base. | ||||
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Mix, apply, and spread plaster, concrete, mortar, cement, mastic, glue or other adhesives to form a bed for the tiles, using brush, trowel and screed. | ||||
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Prepare cost and labor estimates based on calculations of time and materials needed for project. | ||||
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Measure and mark surfaces to be tiled, following blueprints. | ||||
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Level concrete and allow to dry. | ||||
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Build underbeds and install anchor bolts, wires and brackets. | ||||
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Prepare surfaces for tiling by attaching lath or waterproof paper, or by applying a cement mortar coat onto a metal screen. | ||||
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Study blueprints and examine surface to be covered to determine amount of material needed. | ||||
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Cut, surface, polish and install marble and granite or install pre-cast terrazzo, granite or marble units. | ||||
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Install and anchor fixtures in designated positions, using hand tools. | ||||
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Cut tile backing to required size, using shears. | ||||
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Remove any old tile, grout and adhesive using chisels and scrapers and clean the surface carefully. | ||||
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Lay and set mosaic tiles to create decorative wall, mural and floor designs. | ||||
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Assist customers in selection of tile and grout. | ||||
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Remove and replace cracked or damaged tile. | ||||
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Measure and cut metal lath to size for walls and ceilings, using tin snips. | ||||
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Select and order tile and other items to be installed, such as bathroom accessories, walls, panels, and cabinets, according to specifications. | ||||
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Mix and apply mortar or cement to edges and ends of drain tiles to seal halves and joints. | ||||
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Spread mastic or other adhesive base on roof deck to form base for promenade tile, using serrated spreader. | ||||
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Apply a sealer to make grout stain- and water-resistant. | ||||
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Brush glue onto manila paper on which design has been drawn and position tiles finished side down onto paper. | ||||
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and Competencies
Hard Tile Setters
The Benchmark Job Description below represents the specific Position Characteristics of the job used in the Salary Survey. Benchmark Job Descriptions should be inspected carefully to review the degree of matching between an organizations' Job and the Salary Survey Benchmark. Matching internal Jobs to Salary Survey Benchmark Jobs should not be done on Job Title alone. A thorough comparison of Salary Survey Benchmark to Internal Job Descriptions is recommended. A good overlap should exist on any comparisons used on critical Job Dimensions and Competencies.- Job Description
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Important Knowledge Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Building and Construction | Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads. | |||
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English Language | Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. | |||
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Mathematics | Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications. | |||
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Design | Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models. | |||
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Customer and Personal Service | Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. | |||
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Important Skill Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. | |||
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Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. | |||
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Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. | |||
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Coordination | Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. | |||
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Mathematics | Using mathematics to solve problems. | |||
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Time Management | Managing one's own time and the time of others. | |||
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Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. | |||
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Operation Monitoring | Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly. | |||
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Judgment and Decision Making | Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. | |||
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Reading Comprehension | Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. | |||
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Active Learning | Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. | |||
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Social Perceptiveness | Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. | |||
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Persuasion | Persuading others to change their minds or behavior. | |||
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Negotiation | Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences. | |||
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Instructing | Teaching others how to do something. | |||
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Service Orientation | Actively looking for ways to help people. | |||
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Complex Problem Solving | Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. | |||
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Quality Control Analysis | Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance. | |||
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Important Ability Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Visualization | The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged. | |||
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Trunk Strength | The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without 'giving out' or fatiguing. | |||
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Extent Flexibility | The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs. | |||
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Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. | |||
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Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |||
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Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |||
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Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). | |||
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Arm-Hand Steadiness | The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. | |||
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Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | |||
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Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. | |||
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Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). | |||
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Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. | |||
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Manual Dexterity | The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects. | |||
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Finger Dexterity | The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects. | |||
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Control Precision | The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions. | |||
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Multilimb Coordination | The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion. | |||
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Static Strength | The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects. | |||
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Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |||
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Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
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Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. | |||
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Stamina | The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath. | |||
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Flexibility of Closure | The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. | |||
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Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. | |||
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Originality | The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem. | |||
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Gross Body Coordination | The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion. | |||
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Far Vision | The ability to see details at a distance. | |||
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Visual Color Discrimination | The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness. | |||
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Tools/Technology Example | Product Category | |||
Aya Associates Comp-U-Floor | Project management software | |||
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Blue Cove Technologies PlanPoint | Project management software | |||
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EasyCAD Iris 2D | Computer aided design CAD software | |||
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Floor Covering Soft FloorEstimate Pro | Project management software | |||
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TileGem | Computer aided design CAD software | |||
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Adjustable widemouth pliers | Adjustable widemouth pliers | |||
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Air compressors | Air compressors | |||
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Angle grinders | Power grinders | |||
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Articulating boom lifts | Articulating boom lift | |||
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Base grinders | Power grinders | |||
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Bench vises | Bench vises | |||
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Blow torches | Blow torches | |||
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Builders' levels | Levels | |||
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Bull floats | Floats | |||
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Buttering trowels | Trowels | |||
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Caulking guns | Caulking guns | |||
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Chalk lines | Chalk lines | |||
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Chipping hammers | Power chippers | |||
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Claw hammers | Hammers | |||
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Cold chisels | Cold chisels | |||
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Colloidal mixers | Plaster or mortar mixers | |||
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Double-sided files | Files | |||
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Drum cement mixers | Plaster or mortar mixers | |||
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Dust collectors | Dust collectors | |||
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Dust masks | Masks or accessories | |||
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Ear muffs | Ear muffs | |||
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Ear plugs | Ear plugs | |||
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Electric winches | Winches | |||
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Exhaust fans | Air exhausters | |||
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Eyewash facilities | Eyewashers or eye wash stations | |||
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Face shields | Facial shields | |||
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Fall arrest systems | Safety harnesses or belts | |||
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Finishing trowels | Trowels | |||
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Flat trowels | Trowels | |||
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Floor grinding machines | Power grinders | |||
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Floor polishers | Floor polishers | |||
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Floor scrapers | Floor scrapers | |||
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Floor scrubbers | Floor scrubbers | |||
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Gas generators | Gas generators | |||
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Gauging trowels | Trowels | |||
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Goggles | Goggles | |||
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Grinding stones | Abrasive stones | |||
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Grout floats | Floats | |||
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Grout saws | Power saws | |||
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Grout scrapers | Razor knives | |||
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Grouting trowels | Trowels | |||
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Hacksaws | Saws | |||
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Hammer drills | Power drills | |||
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Hammers | Hammers | |||
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Hard hats | Hard hats | |||
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Heavy gauge trowels | Trowels | |||
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Horizontal shaft mixers | Plaster or mortar mixers | |||
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Hot glue guns | Glue guns | |||
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Jackhammers | Pneumatic hammer | |||
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Ladder jacks | Scaffolding | |||
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Ladders | Ladders | |||
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Laser levels | Levels | |||
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Laser squares | Squares | |||
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Layout sticks | Tape measures | |||
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Levels | Levels | |||
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Lifelines | Lifelines or lifeline equipment | |||
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Magnesium floats | Floats | |||
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Mallets | Mallets | |||
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Margin trowels | Trowels | |||
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Mechanical scaffolds | Scaffolding | |||
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Mini grinders | Power grinders | |||
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Mixing drills | Plaster or mortar mixers | |||
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Molding prybars | Pry bars | |||
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Notch trowels | Trowels | |||
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Notebook computers | Notebook computers | |||
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Pan mixers | Plaster or mortar mixers | |||
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Personal computers | Personal computers | |||
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Plumb bobs | Plumb bobs | |||
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Point trowels | Trowels | |||
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Polishers | Power buffers | |||
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Portable mortar mixers | Plaster or mortar mixers | |||
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Power buffers | Power buffers | |||
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Power chisels | Power chippers | |||
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Power drills | Power drills | |||
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Power routers | Power routers | |||
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Power scarifiers | Scarifiers | |||
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Power tile saws | Power saws | |||
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Power undercut saws | Power saws | |||
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Pry bars | Pry bars | |||
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Putty knives | Putty knives | |||
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Respirators | Respirators | |||
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Rolling scaffolds | Scaffolding | |||
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Rubber hammers | Hammers | |||
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Safety glasses | Safety glasses | |||
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Safety gloves | Protective gloves | |||
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Scaffolding | Scaffolding | |||
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Scissor lifts | Scissor lift | |||
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Screeds | Concrete spreaders | |||
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Screwdrivers | Screwdrivers | |||
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Serrated spreaders | Concrete spreaders | |||
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Socket wrench sets | Socket sets | |||
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Spreader spatulas | Spatulas | |||
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Squares | Squares | |||
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Stand-up screw guns | Power screwguns | |||
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Staple guns | Staple guns | |||
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Stationary scaffolds | Scaffolding | |||
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Stone grinders | Power grinders | |||
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Stone polishers | Power buffers | |||
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Story pole tape measures | Tape measures | |||
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Straightedges | Straight edges | |||
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Suction cups | Suction cups | |||
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Tape measures | Tape measures | |||
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Tile cutters | Nibblers | |||
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Tile grout cleaning machines | Floor scrubbers | |||
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Tile nippers | End cut pliers | |||
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Tin snips | Tinners snips | |||
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Transit levels | Level sensors or transmitters | |||
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Utility knives | Utility knives | |||
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Vertical shaft mixers | Plaster or mortar mixers | |||
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Water levels | Levels | |||
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Wet saws | Power saws | |||
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Wet-dry vacuums | Wet or dry combination vacuum cleaners | |||
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Wonder bars | Pry bars | |||
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Wood floats | Floats | |||
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Prerequisite Qualification Category | Education and Experience Level | |||
Required Level of Education | Less than a High School Diploma | |||
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On-the-Job Training | Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years | |||
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On-Site or In-Plant Training | None | |||
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Required Level of Education | High School Diploma (or GED or High School Equivalence Certificate) | |||
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Alternate Job Title(s) | |||
Acoustical Carpenter | |||
Acoustical Installer | |||
Acoustical Material Worker | |||
Ceramic Tile Installer | |||
Ceramic Tile Mechanic | |||
Ceramic Tile Setter | |||
Floor Layer Tile | |||
Granite Installer | |||
Hard Tile Setter | |||
Hard Tile Setter Apprentice | |||
Marble Ceiling Installer | |||
Marble Finisher | |||
Marble Installer | |||
Marble Mason | |||
Marble Worker | |||
Mastic Floor Layer | |||
Mosaic Floor Layer | |||
Mosaic Layer | |||
Mosaic Worker | |||
Parquet Floor Layer | |||
Parquetry Floor Layer | |||
Tile Conduit Layer | |||
Tile Erector | |||
Tile Finisher | |||
Tile Installer | |||
Tile Mason | |||
Tile Mechanic | |||
Tile Setter | |||
Tile Setter Apprentice | |||
Tile and Marble Installer | |||
Tile and Marble Setter | |||
Tilesetter | |||
Wood Tile Installer | |||
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