Drywall Finisher

Durée de l'emploi: Permanent
- Langue de travail: Anglais
- Heures de travail: 40 to 44 hours per week
- Education:

- Expérience:

- **Education**:

- No degree, certificate or diploma
- ** Work site environment**:

- Dusty
- Noisy
- ** Work setting**:

- Commercial
- Residential
- Various locations
- ** Tasks**:

- Read blueprints, drawings and specifications to determine work requirements
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- Erect and install scaffolding, falsework and other working platforms
- ** Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Handling heavy loads
- Large workload
- Manual dexterity
- Physically demanding
- Sound discrimination
- Standing for extended periods
- Tight deadlines
- Work under pressure
- ** Weight handling**:

- Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
- ** Own tools/equipment**:

- Steel-toed safety boots
- ** Personal suitability**:

- Dependability
- Excellent oral communication
- Judgement
- Reliability
- Team player
- ** Experience**:

- 2 years to less than 3 years
- ** Health benefits**:

- Dental plan
- Health care plan
- ** Financial benefits**:

- Group insurance benefits
- ** Support for newcomers and refugees**:

- Supports newcomers and/or refugees with foreign credential recognition
- ** Support for Indigenous people**:

- Develops and maintains relationships with indigenous communities, indigenous-owned businesses and organizations