drywall installer
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
- Bending, crouching, kneeling.
- Hand-eye co-ordination.
- Handling heavy loads.
- Physically demanding.
- Repetitive tasks.
- Standing for extended periods.
Weight handling Up to 23 kg (50 lbs).
Personal suitability
- Flexibility.
- Reliability.
- Team player.
3 years to less than 5 years.
Other
Work site environment Dusty.
Work setting Various locations.
Supervision 1 to 2 people.
Employment terms options
- Early morning.
- Evening.
Employment terms options
- Morning.
- Day.
- Weekend.