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Vinyl installer skills for your resume and career
5 vinyl installer skills for your resume and career
1. Vehicle Wraps
- Created to scale, wide format printed decal graphics for vehicle wraps.
- Installed small vehicle wraps and graphics.
2. Tack
A tack in nautical terms refers to the direction that a boat moves in order to align with the angle of the wind and to allow the boat receives the wind directly on its sails. Tack is also the word used to describe the fastening of a thing to a place. In the tailoring industry, it is used to describe the process of temporarily sewing pieces of materials.
- Measured, cut and installed tack stripping, floor padding and carpet Performed end to end tasks for vinyl installations
- Trim excess covering materials, tack edges, and join sections of covering material to form tight joint.
3. Floor Coverings
- Complete residential installation of various floor coverings according to contract.
- Heat and soften floor covering materials to patch cracks or fit floor coverings around irregular surfaces, using blowtorch.
4. Customer Vehicles
A customer vehicle is a medium used to convey the message to a targeted audience. They are specific networks within a medium that you use to communicate your message.
- Apply customer vehicles with vinyl coating to protect the car as well as change color/design
5. Installation Process
Installation process is the procedure to use when connecting something to a system. It may be a computer related item; whether software or hardware or any other installation.
- Assist with installation process and dissassembe any vehicle trim pieces necessary.
- assisted freightliner staff through the installation process.
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John T. McGrath Jr.
Executive Director, INSTALL
Secondly, understanding the value of continuing education-knowing when to sharpen your skills is a skill itself. That's why it is important to take advantage of training programs that feature an ever-evolving curriculum. This is especially true for those looking to enter the construction industry (and more specifically, the floorcovering installation industry), where it is imperative to stay up to date with new advances. Training programs offered by the United Brotherhood of Carpenters (UBC) and INSTALL offer many certifications, allowing you to develop new skills and get the training you need to pursue a new career in floorcovering. What's more, some programs offer the opportunity to become an apprentice. That means you can get paid to become educated through a combination of formal classes and on-the-job learning. And getting started is easy.
List of vinyl installer skills to add to your resume
The most important skills for a vinyl installer resume and required skills for a vinyl installer to have include:
- Vehicle Wraps
- Tack
- Floor Coverings
- Customer Vehicles
- Installation Process
Updated January 8, 2025
