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Career Details :: Helpers, Painters, Paperhangers, Plasterers, and Stucco Masons
Description
Help painters, paperhangers, plasterers, or stucco masons by performing duties of lesser skill. Duties include using, supplying, or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment.
Experience
No previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, a person can become a general office clerk even if he/she has never worked in an office before.
Education
These occupations may require a high school diploma or GED certificate. Some may require a formal training course to obtain a license.
Training
Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few days to a few months of training. Usually, an experienced worker could show you how to do the job.
Tasks
- Places articles to be stripped into stripping tanks.
- Pours specified amounts of chemical solutions into stripping tanks.
- Smoothes surfaces of articles to be painted, using sanding and buffing tools and equipment.
- Removes articles, such as cabinets, metal furniture, and paint containers, from stripping tanks after prescribed period of time.
- Covers surfaces of articles not to be painted with masking tape prior to painting.
- Fills cracks or breaks in surfaces of plaster articles with putty or epoxy compounds.
- Performs any combination of support duties to assist painter, paperhanger, plasterer, or mason.
Related Careers
- Drywall Installers
- Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles
- Helpers, Brickmasons, Blockmasons, Stonemasons, and Tile and Marble Setters
- Painters, Construction and Maintenance
- Paperhangers
- Tapers
Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Performing General Physical Activities
- Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
- Controlling Machines and Processes
- Communicating With Other Workers
Important Skills
Frequent Work Context
- Using Hands on Objects, Tools, Controls
- Standing
- Common Protective or Safety Attire
- Consequence of Error
- Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
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