drywall installer and finisher
Your tasks
- Apply successive coats of compound and sand seams and joints.
- Cut and install metal corner beads to protect exterior corners.
- 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.
- 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.
Requirements
Education Secondary (high) school graduation certificate.
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Hand-eye co-ordination.
- Handling heavy loads.
- Large workload.
- Physically demanding.
- Standing for extended periods.
- Tight deadlines.
- Work under pressure.
Personal suitability
- Dependability.
- Flexibility.
- Judgement.
- Reliability.
- Team player.
5 years or more.
Other
Own tools/equipment Steel-toed safety boots.