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Summary Job Description | Tasks | |||
Apply blocks, strips, or sheets of shock-absorbing, sound-deadening, or decorative coverings to floors. | Sweep, scrape, sand, or chip dirt and irregularities to clean base surfaces, correcting imperfections that may show through the covering. | |||
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Cut flooring material to fit around obstructions. | ||||
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Inspect surface to be covered to ensure that it is firm and dry. | ||||
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Trim excess covering materials, tack edges, and join sections of covering material to form tight joint. | ||||
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Form a smooth foundation by stapling plywood or Masonite over the floor or by brushing waterproof compound onto surface and filling cracks with plaster, putty, or grout to seal pores. | ||||
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Measure and mark guidelines on surfaces or foundations, using chalk lines and dividers. | ||||
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Cut covering and foundation materials, according to blueprints and sketches. | ||||
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Roll and press sheet wall and floor covering into cement base to smooth and finish surface, using hand roller. | ||||
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Apply adhesive cement to floor or wall material to join and adhere foundation material. | ||||
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Determine traffic areas and decide location of seams. | ||||
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Lay out, position, and apply shock-absorbing, sound-deadening, or decorative coverings to floors, walls, and cabinets, following guidelines to keep courses straight and create designs. | ||||
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Remove excess cement to clean finished surface. | ||||
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Disconnect and remove appliances, light fixtures, and worn floor and wall covering from floors, walls, and cabinets. | ||||
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Heat and soften floor covering materials to patch cracks or fit floor coverings around irregular surfaces, using blowtorch. | ||||
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and Competencies
Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles
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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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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Mathematics | Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications. | |||
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Mechanical | Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance. | |||
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Production and Processing | Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods. | |||
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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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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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Education and Training | Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects. | |||
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Public Safety and Security | Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions. | |||
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Important Skill Competencies | Competency Description | |||
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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Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. | |||
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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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Social Perceptiveness | Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. | |||
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Coordination | Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. | |||
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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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Time Management | Managing one's own time and the time of others. | |||
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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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Complex Problem Solving | Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. | |||
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Important Ability Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Extent Flexibility | The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs. | |||
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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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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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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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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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Static Strength | The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects. | |||
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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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Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
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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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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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Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. | |||
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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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Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |||
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Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. | |||
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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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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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Prerequisite Qualification Category | Education and Experience Level | |||
Required Level of Education | High School Diploma (or GED or High School Equivalence Certificate) | |||
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On-the-Job Training | Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years | |||
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Related Work Experience | None | |||
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On-Site or In-Plant Training | None | |||
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Alternate Job Title(s) | |||
Asphalt Tile Floor Layer | |||
Composition Floor Layer | |||
Composition Floor Setter | |||
Composition Tile Layer | |||
Cork Floor Installer | |||
Floor Covering Contractor | |||
Floor Covering Layer | |||
Floor Coverings Installer | |||
Floor Layer | |||
Floor Layer Apprentice | |||
Flooring Helper | |||
Flooring Installer | |||
Flooring Mechanic | |||
Hardwood Floor Installer | |||
Laminate Floor Installer | |||
Linoleum Floor Installer | |||
Linoleum Installer | |||
Linoleum Layer | |||
Linoleum Layer Apprentice | |||
Linoleum Mechanic | |||
Linoleum Tile Layer | |||
Plastic Tile Setter | |||
Resilient Tile Installer | |||
Rubber Block Layer | |||
Rubber Tile Floor Layer | |||
Shock-Absorption Floor Layer | |||
Soft Tile Setter | |||
Tile Applicator | |||
Tile Fitter | |||
Tile Installer | |||
Tile Mechanic | |||
Tile Setter | |||
Tile Setter Apprentice | |||
Tile Trimmer | |||
Tiler | |||
Vinyl Flooring Installer | |||
Vinyl Installer | |||
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