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Tilesetter
Employer
Old World FlooringDate Posted
March 25, 2025Languages
English-
Location Calgary, AB
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Earnings $35.40 hourly
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Work Hours 40 hours per week
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Position Permanent Full Time
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Vacancies 1  Vacancy
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Closing Date May 17, 2025
Employer
Old World Flooring
Languages
English
Education
No degree, certificate or diploma
Work site environment
- Dusty
- Noisy
Work setting
- Commercial
- Residential
- Various locations
Tasks
- Prepare, measure and mark surfaces to be covered
- Set tiles in place and apply pressure to affix them to base
- Align and straighten tiles
- Cut and fit tiles around obstacles and openings using hand and power cutting tools
- Instruct apprentices
- Remove and replace cracked or damaged tiles
- Lay and set mosaic tiles to create decorative wall, mural and floor designs
Supervision
1 to 2 people
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Physically demanding
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Hand-eye co-ordination
Personal suitability
- Accurate
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Judgement
- Reliability
- Team player
- Hardworking
Experience
2 years to less than 3 years
Support for newcomers and refugees
- Supports social and labour market integration of newcomers and/or refugees (for example: facilitating access to community resources, language training, skills training, etc.)
- Recruits newcomers and/or refugees who were displaced by a conflict or a natural disaster (for example: Ukraine, Afghanistan, etc.)
- Does not require Canadian work experience
Support for youths
Offers on-the-job training tailored to youth
Support for Indigenous people
Provides cultural competency training and/or awareness training to all employees to create a welcoming work environment for Indigenous workers
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Interest Codes
- OBJECTIVE
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Interest in precision working to cut and fit tiles around obstacles and openings
- METHODICAL
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Interest in compiling information to pack grout into joints between tiles and remove the excess; and in cutting, polishing and installing marble and granite
- INNOVATIVE
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Interest in creating decorative designs and in removing and replacing damaged tiles
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It’s based on the Canadian Work Preference Inventory (CWPI), which measures 5 occupational interests: Directive, Innovative, Methodical, Objective, and Social.
Each set of 3 interest codes for this NOC group is listed in order of importance.
A code in capital letters means it’s a strong fit for the occupation.
A code in all lowercase letters means the fit is weaker.
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