drywall installer
Your tasks
- Read blueprints, drawings and specifications to determine work requirements .
- Instruct apprentices.
- 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.
3-4 people.
Requirements
Education Secondary (high) school graduation certificate.
Own tools/equipment
- Hard hat.
- Safety glasses/goggles.
- Steel-toed safety boots.
Personal suitability
- Flexibility.
- Judgement.
- Team player.
1 year to less than 2 years.
Other
Work site environment
- Dusty.
- Noisy.
- Outdoors.
Work setting Various locations.
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Bending, crouching, kneeling.
- Physically demanding.
- Standing for extended periods.
Weight handling Up to 13.5 kg (30 lbs).
Employment terms options
- Evening.
Employment terms options
- Shift.
- Flexible hours.
- Morning.
- Day.