This posting reflects an existing vacancy.

Join On Side Restoration as a Drywaller/Painter and help rebuild homes and businesses after disaster strikes. You’ll repair and finish drywall, apply textures, and bring spaces to life with fresh paint.

Compensation

- Salary Range: $28-$32/hour
- Overtime opportunities (where applicable)
- On-call premium and overtime paid for rotating coverage

Benefits

- Extended health coverage (medical, dental, vision, etc.)
- Employee assistance program (EAP)
- Group RRSP, with company matching DPSP
- Life and disability insurance
- Opportunities for advancement and internal mobility

What You’ll Do

- Measure, cut, install, and repair damaged drywall
- Estimate the quantity of materials required by measuring surfaces, reviewing scopes, sketches and work orders
- Ceiling texture
- Tape, mud, sand, and texture surfaces
- Prepare and protect work sites
- Prepare surfaces and apply primers, paints, stains, or finishes
- Apply finishes that are sponged, ragged and layered
- Feathering/blending wall paint
- Stucco finishes/repairs
- Match colors and apply coatings using brushes, rollers, or spray guns
- Cut and install insulation and vapour barrier

What You Bring

- 3+ years of drywall repair experience (cutting, mudding, sanding, taping, painting)
- Brush/roller/spray gun paint experience to finish the area for uniformity and completion
- Construction experience and tool proficiency: you have your own tools for the job
- Previous experience reading and executing work orders
- Texturing skills (knockdown, popcorn, orange peel)
- Physically fit: able to do heavy lifting (moving materials) and long periods of kneeling/bending/crouching/reaching
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision or collaboratively within a team
- Tech-savvy and comfortable using mobile apps/software for documentation and communication
- Strong communication and people skills
- Detail-oriented, quality-driven, safety-focused




- Valid driver’s licence and clean criminal record (we do check)
- Ability to communicate effectively in English, both written and spoken

Why You’ll Love Working Here

- A workplace that values respect, integrity, generosity, excellence and being customer driven
- Opportunities to grow your career and learn from the best in the industry
- A culture that celebrates teamwork, inclusion, and customer-driven service

Of Note: Disasters can strike at any time so a rotating schedule of 24/7 after hours on-call work is a requirement. Meaning you’ll work regular weekday hours and participate in a rotating after-hours on-call schedule.

At On Side, everything starts with people. We live our values — respect, integrity, generosity, excellence, and customer focus — in everything we do.

Join a team that helps families, businesses, and communities rebuild when it matters most. You’ll contribute to a workplace where people come together to bring order to chaos.

Make a real impact, do work that matters, and grow your career with us.

*Your application is always reviewed by real people. We don’t use artificial intelligence to screen, assess, or select applicants for this role.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: $28.00-$32.00 per hour

Benefits

- Casual dress
- Company events
- Dental care
- Disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- RRSP match
- Vision care

Application question(s):
- This role involves working in homes affected by fire or flood damage and completing drywall repairs from start to finish, including installation, taping, mudding, sanding,



texturing, and final paint. The ideal candidate can fully restore damaged areas of a home. Please explain why you would be a strong fit for this position.
- With painting, have you applied finishes that are feathered, sponged, ragged and layered? Do you have experience using a spray gun? Please describe:
- Please describe your hands-on experience with drywall texturing techniques, including knockdown, orange peel, popcorn, and texture spraying. Be specific about the methods you’ve used, tools and equipment you’re familiar with, and the types of projects you’ve completed, as detailed responses will be strongly considered.
- Do you have your own trade tools for drywall and painting? Please note that On Side provides materials and supplies.
- Regularly driving company vehicles is a key part of this role. How would you describe your current driving record and overall comfort behind the wheel?
- A positive attitude matters. Tell us whether you’re ambitious, respectful, easy to work with, a positive communicator and listener, and someone who genuinely wants to help co workers, clients, and others — and explain why.
- Are you able to work a rotating on call schedule, responding to emergency calls after regular hours? This on call work is in addition to your scheduled daytime hours, and premium pay as well as overtime will be provided.
- Are you able to work later than scheduled when required? Are you able to work out of town for extended periods (example Monday to Friday)? *Please let us know if you are seeking local work only, or if you would be open to opportunities that may require travel outside of Grande Prairie for the week.

Experience:
- Texture Spraying: 3 years (preferred)
- Drywall Repair (vs new build): 3 years (preferred)
- Brush and Roller Painting: 3 years (preferred)

Licence/Certification:
- Canadian Driver's License (required)

Work Location: In person

📌 Drywaller/Painter - Flood/Fire Restoration (Grande Prairie)
🏢 On Side Restoration
📍 Grande Prairie