Drywall Installer

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

- Expérience:

- **Education**:

- College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 3 months to less than 1 year
- ** Work site environment**:

- At heights
- Dusty
- Noisy
- Outdoors
- ** Work setting**:

- Various locations
- ** Tasks**:

- Prepare tenders and quotations
- Instruct apprentices
- Supervise other workers
- Apply, level and smooth coats of plaster
- Cure freshly plastered surfaces
- Finish corners and angles and create decorative designs in finish coat, if required
- Measure, cut, fit and install drywall sheets
- Mould and install ornamental plaster panels, cornices and trim
- Position and secure sheets to metal or wooden studs or joists
- Spray acoustic or texture materials over walls and ceilings
- 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 acoustic tile, hangers for suspended ceilings and metal studs for composition wallboard or lath
- Install corner beads and wire mesh around beams to which plaster is to be applied
- Install exterior and interior steel studs
- Install metal stud framing and furring for interior drywall or plaster walls and ceilings, using hand and power tools
- Install vapour barriers and thermal and sound insulation
- Prepare wall and ceiling layouts
- Utilize laser alignment system
- Estimate costs and materials
- Operate CADD and other computer software systems
- Erect and install scaffolding, falsework and other working platforms
- Read and interpret blueprints, maps, drawings and specifications
- ** Supervision**:

- 1 to 2 people
- ** Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Handling heavy loads
- Large workload
- Physically demanding
- Standing for extended periods
- Work under pressure
- ** Personal suitability**:

- Client focus
- Dependability
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Reliability
- Team player
- ** Experience**:

- 1 year to less than 2 years
- ** Support for newcomers and refugees**:

- Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports newcomers and/or refugees
- Recruits newcomers and/or refugees who were displaced by a conflict or a natural disaster (for example: Ukraine, Afghanistan, etc.)
- Provides diversity and cross-cultural trainings to create a welcoming work environment for newcomers and/or refugees
- **Support for youths**:

- Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports youth employment
- ** Support for Veterans**:

- Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports Veterans
- **Support for Indigenous people**:

- Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports Indigenous people
- Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for Indigenous workers
- Develops and maintains relationships with indigenous communities, indigenous-owned businesses and organizations
- Provides cultural competency training and/or awareness training to all employees to create a welcoming work environment for Indigenous workers
- Facilitates access to Elders who can offer support and guidance to Indigenous workers
- **Support for mature workers**:

- Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports mature workers
- **Supports for visible minorities**:

- Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports members of visible minorities
- Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (for example: anonymizing the hiring process, etc.)
- Offers mentorship programs that pair members of visible minorities with experienced employees
- Provides diversity and cross-cultural training to create a welcoming work environment for members of visible minorities