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Tilesetter
Employer
Aries TileDate Posted
October 17, 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 2  Vacancies
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Closing Date Nov 16, 2025
Employer
Aries Tile
Languages
English
Education
- Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- or equivalent experience
Work site environment
- Odours
- Dusty
- Noisy
Work setting
- On-site customer service
- Various locations
Tasks
- Prepare rough plans and sketches
- Set tiles in place and apply pressure to affix them to base
- Align and straighten tiles
- Prepare tenders and quotations
- Cut and fit tiles around obstacles and openings using hand and power cutting tools
- Instruct apprentices
- Pack grout into joints between tiles and remove excess grout
- Remove and replace cracked or damaged tiles
- Lay and set mosaic tiles to create decorative wall, mural and floor designs
- Build underbeds and install anchor bolts, wires and brackets
- Cut, surface, polish and install marble and granite
- Estimate costs and materials
- Mix, lay and polish terra surfaces
- Install tile strips
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Physically demanding
- Handling heavy loads
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Attention to detail
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Large workload
Own tools/equipment
- Tools
- Safety equipment/gear
- Steel-toed safety boots
- Hard hat
- Safety glasses/goggles
Personal suitability
- Accurate
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Judgement
- Reliability
- Team player
- Hardworking
Experience
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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
Abilities
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