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Decorative Plasterer
Architect of the Capitol · Posted 58 days ago
On-site Washington, DC $36.5 – $42.6/hr Apply by Aug 19, 2026 Plastering ENTJENTPINTJINTP EngineeringOperationsTrades
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This position is located in the Architect of the Capitol, Office of the Chief of Operations, Superintendent, Senate Office Buildings, Tenant Services Division, Masonry Branch. As a Decorative Plasterer (Painter) you will perform intricate painting and decorative work requiring skill to restore decorative surfaces.
What You'll Do
- →TOUR OF DUTY: DAY SHIFT (6:00 A.M. - 2:30 P.M.) with the possibility of a flex work schedule.
- →Major Duties: Surface Preparation and Plastering Work: Works on additions, renovations, patching, and new construction.
- →Performs maintenance and repair on unique and historically significant plaster walls, ceilings, cornices, and moldings.
- →Prepares surfaces for coating.
- →Prepares woodwork by applying solvents to remove old finishes.
- →Takes care to avoid damaging significant architectural features.
- →Removes old paint from interior and exterior walls, doors, baseboards, floors, and interior trim.
- →Scrapes, sandpapers, or applies paint remover as needed to prepare surfaces for refinishing.
- →Tapes, mortars or applies topping cement to joints between dry-wall board sheets to fill joints and nail heads and bring joints into smooth, even planes.
- →Smooths surfaces by wet brushing and sanding.
- →Applies plaster to walls and ceilings by spreading and smoothing plaster over laths with trowel.
- →Applies decorative plaster in ornate and patterned finishes to exactly match the previous finish.
- →Uses trowels, float, screed, plasterers hawk, straight edge, and personally-devised tools as appropriate.
- →Repairs ceiling centers, ceiling panels, columns, corbel arches, corbel blocks, cornices, edge moldings, gable trims, molded carvings, pedestals, pediments, pilasters, plaster domes, and plaster fire surrounds.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓You must be able to pass a drug test.
- ✓Your resume and question responses must demonstrate job-related elements.
Benefits
- ★Selected applicant(s) may be eligible to earn a higher annual leave accrual rate credit towards annual leave accrual based on prior non-Federal or uniformed service work experience.
- ★The amount of service credit will be based on specialized experience or qualifying experience that is provided on the applicant profile submitted.
- ★As such, if you are a new employee to the Federal Government or a rehire, it is important that you provide a work history that lists all directly related positions held, and it must include the dates of employment (month/day/year).
Personality Fit
Job ID: f259effc-50c5-4393-9ccd-0b3d172af6f5
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