Decorative Plasterer
What you'd do
This position is located in the Architect of the Capitol, Office of the Chief of Operations, Superintendent, Senate Office Buildings, Tenant Services Division, Masonry Branch. As a Decorative Plasterer (Painter) you will perform intricate painting and decorative work requiring skill to restore decorative surfaces.
Major duties
TOUR OF DUTY: DAY SHIFT (6:00 A.M. - 2:30 P.M.) with the possibility of a flex work schedule. Major Duties: Surface Preparation and Plastering Work: Works on additions, renovations, patching, and new construction. Performs maintenance and repair on unique and historically significant plaster walls, ceilings, cornices, and moldings. Prepares surfaces for coating. Prepares woodwork by applying solvents to remove old finishes. Takes care to avoid damaging significant architectural features. Removes old paint from interior and exterior walls, doors, baseboards, floors, and interior trim. Scrapes, sandpapers, or applies paint remover as needed to prepare surfaces for refinishing. Tapes, mortars or applies topping cement to joints between dry-wall board sheets to fill joints and nail heads and bring joints into smooth, even planes. Smooths surfaces by wet brushing and sanding. Applies plaster to walls and ceilings by spreading and smoothing plaster over laths with trowel. Applies decorative plaster in ornate and patterned finishes to exactly match the previous finish. Uses trowels, float, screed, plasterers hawk, straight edge, and personally-devised tools as appropriate. Repairs ceiling centers, ceiling panels, columns, corbel arches, corbel blocks, cornices, edge moldings, gable trims, molded carvings, pedestals, pediments, pilasters, plaster domes, and plaster fire surrounds. Fabricates and installs replacements for these items as needed. Repairs and patches plaster and stucco surfaces. Applies plaster on metal, wood or gypsum lathe, wallboard, and masonry surfaces. Patches damaged sections of walls and ceilings. Chips out old plaster, trims edges until a solid joint is found, and fills with new plaster. Straightens edges and trowels to an even surface. Applies interior and exterior skim-coat and two-coat plaster. Installs metal lath and applies exterior plaster. Applies striping, stippling, graining, and gold highlights on trim moldings. Plumbs and straightens angles, ceilings, corners, and wall surfaces. Cleans and prepares surfaces. Staples on wire-mesh frames or roughens surfaces with mechanical hammers. Ensures maintenance of fire-rated wall barriers. Erects, maintains, and repairs masonry, including brick, concrete block, glazed tile, floor tile, and marble. Performs intricate decorative painting work requiring skill to apply gold leaf and other coatings to restore decorative surfaces and works of art. Uses artist brushes for intricate painting and decorative work. Applies color glazing, graining, lettering, marbling, stenciling, stippling, and striping. Paints and varnishes interior surfaces to protect, restore, and maintain interior and exterior surfaces. Applies paints, stains, and varnishes by brushing, rolling, or spraying. Applies finishes to equipment, metal, doors, windows, and interior and exterior walls. Matches color, textures, and shading where exact matches with original finishes are required. Blends and mixes paints to match original colors and textures of original surfaces and architectural features. Hangs wall coverings matching new wallpaper and fabric patterns and fabrics to the original. Paints building signs from stenciled outlines. Uses sprayers, brushes, rollers, and other hand and power tools. Uses ladders and scaffolding to reach ceilings and other areas high above the floor. Cleans and maintains tools and equipment as appropriate. Coordinates with unit supervisor to prepare scopes of work, cost estimates, and schedules of proposed work to be performed by contract workers. Oversees and directs the work of temporary painters and laborers. Uses a personal computer to record work orders, prepare requisitions for materials, tools, and equipment, track material inventory, and communicate with supervisors and organizational staff. The incumbent must follow all relevant safety rules, regulations, and standard operating procedures. Must utilize knowledge of and must comply with all OSHA safety rules and regulations to ensure that work progresses in a safe manner. Receives training, either on the job or through classroom training, to ensure that all safety practices and equipment are fully utilized. Must ensure the use of any required Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). Performs other related duties as assigned.
What you need to qualify
You must meet all eligibility and qualifications requirements by the closing date of the job announcement. SCREEN-OUT FACTOR: Ability to perform the work of a decorative plasterer without more than normal supervision, which includes working independently, showing job responsibility and exercising initiative.
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