drywall installer
Job description
- Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- Experience: 1 to less than 7 months
Tasks
- Apply, level and smooth coats of plaster
- Clean and prepare surfaces
- Cure freshly plastered surfaces
- 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
- 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
- Trowel or spray coats of stucco over exteriors of buildings to form weatherproof surfaces
- Attach metal or gypsum lath to studs or furring
- Install exterior and interior steel studs
- Prepare wall and ceiling layouts
- Work at heights, on scaffolding or swing stages
- Erect and install scaffolding, falsework and other working platforms
- Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 35 hours per week