About this role
Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate. or equivalent experience.
Work site environment: Noisy. Dusty. Work setting: Furniture manufacturing company.
Tasks
- Prepare, sand and trim wooden furniture and fixture parts.
- Set up and operate finishing machines or finish furniture by hand.
- Assemble wooden or metal furniture and fixture parts to form subassemblies and complete articles.
- Read blueprints and drawings.
- Stain or finish wood to specified colour.
- Apply toners, highlights, glazes or shaders to obtain desired finish.
- Reinforce assembled furniture and fixtures with dowels or other supports.
- Apply lacquer or other sealers.
- Install hardware on furniture and fixtures.
- Clean, polish and wax furniture.
- Sand metal furniture to prepare for finish and spray with paint or other materials.
- Smooth gouges with wood filler and sand wood.
- Make minor repairs to furniture.
- Make minor adjustments and repairs.
- Type of materials: Metal.
- Wood.
- Equipment and machinery experience: Automated spray painting.
- Grinding machine.
- Power tools.
- Hand tools.
- Work conditions and physical capabilities: Repetitive tasks.
- Handling heavy loads.
- Physically demanding.
- Attention to detail.
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking.
- Bending, crouching, kneeling.
- Ability to distinguish between colours.
- Personal suitability: Flexibility.
- Organized.
- Reliability.
- Team player.
Experience: 7 months to less than 1 year.
Employment terms options: Flexible hours. Support for persons with disabilities: Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports persons with disabilities . Support for newcomers and refugees: Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports newcomers and/or refugees. Support for youths: Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports youth employment. Support for Veterans: Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports Veterans . Support for Indigenous people: Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports Indigenous people.
Support for mature workers: Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports mature workers . Supports for visible minorities: Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports members of visible minorities.