Marble Tilesetter

**Additional Skills**:

- Supervise other workers
- Prepare rough plans and sketches
- Prepare tenders and quotations
- Instruct apprentices

**Specific Skills**:

- Remove and replace cracked or damaged tiles
- Prepare, measure and mark surfaces to be covered
- Cut, surface, polish and install marble and granite
- Align and straighten tiles
- Cut and fit tiles around obstacles and openings using hand and power cutting tools
- Pack grout into joints between tiles and remove excess grout
- Build underbeds and install anchor bolts, wires and brackets
- Lay and set mosaic tiles to create decorative wall, mural and floor designs
- Mix, lay and polish terra surfaces
- Install tile strips

**Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities**:

- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Large workload

**Ability to Supervise**:

- 3-4 people

**Personal Suitability**:

- Accurate
- Team player
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Judgement
- Reliability