drywall installer and finisher
K-W DRYWALL SERVICES LTD.
London, ON, CA
$34 an hour
Permanent
Full-time
- Education : No degree, certificate or diploma
- Experience : 1 to less than 7 months
Work site environment
- At heights
- Cold / refrigerated
- Dangerous
- Dusty
- Noisy
- Outdoors
Work setting
- Commercial
- Residential
- Various locations
- Relocation costs covered by employer
Tasks
- 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
- 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
- Position and secure sheets to metal or wooden studs or joists
- Smooth out excess compound and allow coat to dry
- Trowel or spray coats of stucco over exteriors of buildings to form weatherproof surfaces
- Attach metal or gypsum lath to studs or furring
- Cut openings in lath for heating and ventilation piping, ducts and electrical outlets
- Install acoustic tile, hangers for suspended ceilings and metal studs for composition wallboard or lath
- Install corner beads and wire mesh around beams to which plaster is to be applied
- 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 conditions and physical capabilities
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Physically demanding
- Sound discrimination
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Work under pressure
Weight handling
Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
Own tools / equipment
- Hard hat
- Steel-toed safety boots
- Work Term : Permanent
- Work Language : English
- Hours : 30 hours per week
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