Drywall Taper

Durée de l'emploi: Permanent
- Langue de travail: Anglais
- Heures de travail: 40 hours per week
- Education:

- Expérience:
**Education**:

- Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
**Work site environment**:

- At heights
- Dusty
- Hot
- Outdoors
**Tasks**:

- Read blueprints, drawings and specifications to determine work requirements
- 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
- 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
**Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Handling heavy loads
- Manual dexterity
- Overtime required
- Physically demanding
- Repetitive tasks
- Sound discrimination
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Work under pressure
**Weight handling**:

- Up to 13.5 kg (30 lbs)
**Own tools/equipment**:

- Safety glasses/goggles
- Steel-toed safety boots
**Personal suitability**:

- Dependability
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Reliability
- Team player
**Experience**:

- 1 year to less than 2 years
**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 environment for mature workers
**Supports for visible minorities**:

- Provides diversity and cross-cultural training to create a welcoming work environment for members of visible minorities