Employment Information
- Post ID: 672070095
- Open Date: November 14, 2024
- Close Date: January 4, 2025
- Organization: MM Drywall Inc.
- Sector: Construction & Renovation
- Business Location:Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Total Views: 214
- Duration: 10 calendar days (7 business days)
- Last Updated: 1 week ago
- Job URL: https://newpeople.ca/jobs/alberta/calgary/672070095/drywall-installer/
Job Details
- Experience: 1 year - 2 years
- Job Vacancies: 1
- Compensation: $25.26 to $27.30 per hour (To be negotiated) / 30 to 40 hours per week
- Anticipated Start Date: As soon as possible
- Education: High school graduation certificate
Job Description
Tasks
- Apply successive coats of compound and sand seams and joints
- Apply, level and smooth coats of plaster
- Clean and prepare surfaces
- Cure freshly plastered surfaces
- 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
- 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
- Spray acoustic or texture materials over walls and ceilings
- 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
- 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
- Prepare wall and ceiling layouts
Additional information
Security and safety
- Criminal record check
Transportation/travel information
- Own vehicle
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Handling heavy loads
- Manual dexterity
- Physically demanding
- Repetitive tasks
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
Weight handling
- Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
- Up to 45 kg (100 lbs)
Own tools/equipment
- Hard hat
- Mask
- Safety glasses/goggles
- Steel-toed safety boots
- Tools
Personal suitability
- Dependability
- Excellent oral communication
- Judgement
- Reliability
- Team player