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Drywall installer

FH Development Group

Lower Sackville, NS

Posted 6 days ago

Job Details:

$28.00 / hour
Full-time
Experienced

Overview
  • Work Term: Permanent
  • Work Language: English
  • Hours: 35 to 45 hours per week
  • Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
  • Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years
  • Work site environment
  • At heights
  • Dusty
  • Hot
  • Noisy
  • Work setting
  • Commercial
  • Residential
  • Various locations
  • Tasks
  • Apply successive coats of compound and sand seams and joints
  • Clean and prepare 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
  • Finish corners and angles and create decorative designs in finish coat, if required
  • Measure, cut, fit and install drywall sheets
  • Mix plaster ingredients to desired consistency
  • Mould and install ornamental plaster panels, cornices and trim
  • 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
  • Cut openings in lath for heating and ventilation piping, ducts and electrical outlets
  • Install exterior and interior steel studs
  • Install metal stud framing and furring for interior drywall or plaster walls and ceilings, using hand and power tools
  • Install vapour barriers and thermal and sound insulation
  • Work at heights, on scaffolding or swing stages
  • Erect and install scaffolding, falsework and other working platforms
  • Read and interpret blueprints, maps, drawings and specifications
  • Work conditions and physical capabilities
  • Bending, crouching, kneeling
  • Hand-eye co-ordination
  • Handling heavy loads
  • Manual dexterity
  • Physically demanding
  • Repetitive tasks
  • Standing for extended periods
  • Walking
  • Work under pressure
  • Weight handling
  • Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
  • Employment terms options
  • Early morning
  • Evening
  • Employment terms options
  • Morning
  • Day
  • Weekend

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