Overview

- Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
- Experience: 2 years to less than 3 years
Work site environment
- At heights
- Dusty
- Noisy
Work setting
- Commercial
- Institutional
- Residential
- Various locations
Tasks
- Read blueprints, drawings and specifications to determine work requirements
- 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
- 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




- 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 corner beads and wire mesh around beams to which plaster is to be applied
- Install metal stud framing and furring for interior drywall or plaster walls and ceilings, using hand and power tools
- Work at heights, on scaffolding or swing stages
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Physically demanding
Employment terms options
- Flexible schedule
- Morning
- Day
- Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 35 hours per week

📌 Drywall finisher (Mississauga)
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📍 Mississauga