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Summary Job Description | Tasks | |||
Apply interior or exterior plaster, cement, stucco, or similar materials. May also set ornamental plaster. | Apply coats of plaster or stucco to walls, ceilings, or partitions of buildings, using trowels, brushes, or spray guns. | |||
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Mix mortar and plaster to desired consistency or direct workers who perform mixing. | ||||
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Create decorative textures in finish coat, using brushes or trowels, sand, pebbles, or stones. | ||||
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Apply insulation to building exteriors by installing prefabricated insulation systems over existing walls or by covering the outer wall with insulation board, reinforcing mesh, and a base coat. | ||||
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Cure freshly plastered surfaces. | ||||
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Clean and prepare surfaces for applications of plaster, cement, stucco, or similar materials, such as by drywall taping. | ||||
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Rough the undercoat surface with a scratcher so the finish coat will adhere. | ||||
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Apply weatherproof, decorative coverings to exterior surfaces of buildings, such as by troweling or spraying on coats of stucco. | ||||
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Install guide wires on exterior surfaces of buildings to indicate thickness of plaster or stucco and nail wire mesh, lath, or similar materials to the outside surface to hold stucco in place. | ||||
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Spray acoustic materials or texture finish over walls or ceilings. | ||||
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Mold or install ornamental plaster pieces, panels, or trim. | ||||
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and Competencies
Plasterers and Stucco Masons
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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Important Skill Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. | |||
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Time Management | Managing one's own time and the time of others. | |||
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Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. | |||
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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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Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. | |||
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Coordination | Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. | |||
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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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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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Instructing | Teaching others how to do something. | |||
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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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Operation and Control | Controlling operations of equipment or systems. | |||
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Important Ability Competencies | Competency Description | |||
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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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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Static Strength | The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects. | |||
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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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Gross Body Equilibrium | The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position. | |||
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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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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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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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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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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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Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | |||
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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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Stamina | The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath. | |||
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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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Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. | |||
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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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Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. | |||
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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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Reaction Time | The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears. | |||
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Dynamic Strength | The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue. | |||
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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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Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |||
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Perceptual Speed | The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object. | |||
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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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Speed of Limb Movement | The ability to quickly move the arms and legs. | |||
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Depth Perception | The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object. | |||
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Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. | |||
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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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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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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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Rate Control | The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene. | |||
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Tools/Technology Example | Product Category | |||
A-Systems JobView | Accounting software | |||
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Construction Software Center EasyEst | Project management software | |||
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Cost estimating software | Project management software | |||
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Sage Construct | Project management software | |||
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Turtle Creek Software Goldenseal | Accounting software | |||
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Chalk lines | Chalk lines | |||
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Claw hammers | Hammers | |||
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Corner tools | Edgers | |||
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Darbies | Floats | |||
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Featheredgers | Trowels | |||
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Floats | Floats | |||
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Hand saws | Saws | |||
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Hand trowels | Trowels | |||
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Heat guns | Heat guns | |||
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Inside step tools | Edgers | |||
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Joint knives | Putty knives | |||
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Keyhole saws | Saws | |||
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Ladders | Ladders | |||
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Lime brushes | Applicator brushes | |||
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Nail guns | Power nail guns | |||
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Nose step tools | Edgers | |||
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Notebook computers | Notebook computers | |||
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Ornamental cut and shape tools | Edgers | |||
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Outside step tools | Edgers | |||
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Personal computers | Personal computers | |||
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Piston pumps | Hydraulic pumps | |||
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Plaster mixers | Plaster or mortar mixers | |||
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Plaster molds | Molding machines | |||
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Plaster spraying machines | Paint sprayers | |||
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Plasterers' hammers | Hammers | |||
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Plumb bobs | Plumb bobs | |||
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Power drills | Power drills | |||
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Power sanders | Power sanders | |||
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Power trowels | Trowels | |||
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Precision levels | Levels | |||
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Rulers | Rulers | |||
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Scaffolding | Scaffolding | |||
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Scraping tools | Cleaning scrapers | |||
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Scratcher trowels | Trowels | |||
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Screeds | Concrete spreaders | |||
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Spray guns | Paint sprayers | |||
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Stilts | Ladders | |||
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Straightedges | Straight edges | |||
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T-squares | T squares | |||
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Trimming knives | Utility knives | |||
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Utility knives | Utility knives | |||
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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-Site or In-Plant Training | Up to and including 1 month | |||
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On-the-Job Training | Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month | |||
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On-the-Job Training | Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year | |||
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Related Work Experience | Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years | |||
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Alternate Job Title(s) | |||
Applicator | |||
Artisan Plasterer | |||
Dry Plasterer | |||
Journey Level Plasterer | |||
Laborer | |||
Modeler | |||
Molding Plasterer | |||
Ornamental Plasterer | |||
Plaster Mechanic | |||
Plaster Molder | |||
Plasterer | |||
Plasterer Apprentice | |||
Plasterer Foreman | |||
Plasterer Journeyman | |||
Plastering Contractor | |||
Quality Control Patch-Man (QC Patch-Man) | |||
Stucco Man | |||
Stucco Plasterer | |||
Stucco Worker | |||
Swimming Pool Plasterer | |||
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