Overview

- Job Duration: Permanent
- Language of Work: English
- Hours of Work: 35 to 40 hours per week
- Education:
- Experience:
Education
- Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
Work site environment
- At heights
- Dusty
- Hot
- Noisy
- Outdoors
Work setting
- Commercial
- Residential
- Various locations
Tasks
- Apply, level and smooth coats of plaster
- Clean and prepare 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
- 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
- Erect and install scaffolding, falsework and other working platforms
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Large workload
- Manual dexterity
- Physically demanding
- Repetitive tasks
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Work under pressure




Weight handling
- More than 45 kg (100 lbs)
Personal suitability
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Reliability
- Team player
Employment terms options
- Early morning
- Evening
Experience
- 2 years to less than 3 years
Employment terms options
- Morning
- Day
- Weekend
- Overtime available
Support for persons with disabilities
- Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for persons with disabilities
Support for newcomers and refugees
- Provides diversity and cross-cultural trainings to create a welcoming work environment for newcomers and/or refugees
Support for youths
- Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for youth
Support for Veterans
- Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for Veterans
Support for Indigenous people
- Provides cultural competency training and/or awareness training to all employees to create a welcoming work environment for Indigenous workers
Support for mature workers
- Provides staff with awareness training to create a welcoming work workplace for mature workers
Supports for visible minorities
- Provides diversity and cross-cultural training to create a welcoming work environment for members of visible minorities

📌 Drywall installer and finisher (Calgary)
🏢 CareerBeacon
📍 Calgary