Stone Polisher

Are you ready to join our team at Vesta? We are currently expanding our company and looking for intelligent, motivated and enthusiastic members to join our team. As a Stone Polisher, you will utilize your unique skill set to grind, sand or polish a variety of natural and engineered stone surfaces using machinery or hand-held power tools to produce finished counter tops for our valued customers.

**Job Duties (include but aren't limited to)**:

- Grind, scrape, sand, or polish surfaces using abrasive tools or machines.
- Load, unload, and identify building materials, machinery, and tools, and distribute them to the appropriate locations, according to project plans and specifications.
- Position, join, align, and quartz and granite components.
- Mix ingredients to create compounds for covering or cleaning surfaces.
- Lubricate, clean, maintain and repair machinery, equipment, and tools.
- Read and interpret plans, instructions, blueprints, structural drawings, rough sketches, and specifications to determine work activities.
- Operate a variety of hand and power tools.
- Keep a daily log of activity requiring management’s attention.
- Respect and respond to direction given by management.
- Ensure an adequate supply of material is available for preventative maintenance program.
- Clean and prepare Shop to eliminate possible hazards.

**Requirements**:

- Ability to operate required equipment in a safe and responsible manner.
- Strong working mechanical knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance
- Ability to determine the correct tools readily and equipment needed to do a job
- Knowledge of workplace safety and safe lifting and handling procedures.
- Effective time management skills
- Proactive in ensuring job knowledge is current
- Ability to work independently and complete daily activities according to work schedule
- Ability to lift heavy objects, walk and stand for long periods of time and perform strenuous physical labor under adverse field conditions
- Mathematical skills and analytical skills necessary to do material and labour estimates
- Ability to work in a team environment with a minimum of supervision
- Receptive to change - can adapt to changing circumstances
- Basic computer literacy skills
- Encompass a positive attitude and solid work ethic
- Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy
- Work with a team and make sound decisions
- High level of responsibility and reliability.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: $17.00-$20.00 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Dental care
- Disability insurance
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- On-site parking

Flexible Language Requirement:

- French not required

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift

Supplemental pay types:

- Overtime pay

Application question(s):

- Do you have experience using hand tools?

**Experience**:

- general labour: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: One location