- Work Term : Permanent
- Work Language : English
- Hours : 40 hours per week
- Education : Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- Experience : 2 years to less than 3 years
Work site environment
- At heights
- Dusty
Work setting
- Commercial
- Residential
- Various locations
Tasks
- Read blueprints, drawings and specifications to determine work requirements
- Instruct apprentices
- Apply successive coats of compound and sand seams and joints
- Apply, level and smooth coats of plaster
- Clean and prepare surfaces
- Cure freshly plastered surfaces
- Cut and install metal corner beads to protect exterior corners
- Fill joints, nail indentations, holes and cracks with joint compound using trowel and broad knife
- Measure, cut, fit and install drywall sheets
- Mix plaster ingredients to desired consistency
- Position and secure sheets to metal or wooden studs or joists
- Smooth out excess compound and allow coat to dry
- Tape over joints using taping machine and embed tape in compound
- Estimate costs and materials
- Work at heights, on scaffolding or swing stages
- Erect and install scaffolding, falsework and other working platforms
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Overtime required
- Physically demanding
- Repetitive tasks
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Work under pressure
Weight handling
Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
Personal suitability
- Client focus
- Flexibility
- Reliability
- Team player
Support for newcomers and refugees
Provides diversity and cross-cultural trainings to create a welcoming work environment for newcomers and / or refugees
Support for youths
Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for youth
Support for Indigenous people
Provides cultural competency training and / or awareness training to all employees to create a welcoming work environment for Indigenous workers
Support for mature workers
Provides staff with awareness training to create a welcoming work environment for mature workers
Supports for visible minorities
- Provides diversity and cross-cultural training to create a welcoming work environment for members of visible minorities
drywall installer and finisher
Install metal stud framing and furring for interior drywall or plaster walls and ceilings, using hand and power tools. Apply successive coats of compound and sand seams and joints. Fabricate and install suspended metal ceiling grids and place in panels to form acoustical and coffered ceilings. Finis...
drywall installer and finisher
Fabricate and install suspended metal ceiling grids and place in panels to form acoustical and coffered ceilings. Fill joints, nail indentations, holes and cracks with joint compound using trowel and broad knife. Measure, cut, fit and install drywall sheets. Cut and install metal corner beads to pro...
drywall installer and finisher
Apply successive coats of compound and sand seams and joints. Fill joints, nail indentations, holes and cracks with joint compound using trowel and broad knife. Measure, cut, fit and install drywall sheets. Erect and install scaffolding, falsework and other working platforms. ...
drywall installer and finisher
Apply successive coats of compound and sand seams and joints. Fabricate and install suspended metal ceiling grids and place in panels to form acoustical and coffered ceilings. Fill joints, nail indentations, holes and cracks with joint compound using trowel and broad knife. Measure, cut, fit and ins...
drywall installer and finisher
Install metal stud framing and furring for interior drywall or plaster walls and ceilings, using hand and power tools. Apply successive coats of compound and sand seams and joints. Fill joints, nail indentations, holes and cracks with joint compound using trowel and broad knife. Finish corners and a...
drywall installer
Apply successive coats of compound and sand seams and joints. Fabricate and install suspended metal ceiling grids and place in panels to form acoustical and coffered ceilings. Fill joints, nail indentations, holes and cracks with joint compound using trowel and broad knife. Finish corners and angles...
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drywall installer
Fill joints, nail indentations, holes and cracks with joint compound using trowel and broad knife. Measure, cut, fit and install drywall sheets. Cut and install metal corner beads to protect exterior corners. Position and secure sheets to metal or wooden studs or joists. ...
drywall installer
Install metal stud framing and furring for interior drywall or plaster walls and ceilings, using hand and power tools. Fabricate and install suspended metal ceiling grids and place in panels to form acoustical and coffered ceilings. Fill joints, nail indentations, holes and cracks with joint compoun...
drywall installer
Apply successive coats of compound and sand seams and joints. Fill joints, nail indentations, holes and cracks with joint compound using trowel and broad knife. Measure, cut, fit and install drywall sheets. Cut and install metal corner beads to protect exterior corners. ...