drywall finisher

604 Drywall ltd.


Date: 3 days ago
City: Halifax, Nova Scotia
Salary: CA$29 - CA$32 per hour
Contract type: Full time
  • Durée de l'emploi: Permanent
  • Langue de travail: Anglais
  • Heures de travail: 30 to 48 hours per week
  • Education:
  • Expérience:

  • Education

  • Secondary (high) school graduation certificate

  • Work site environment

  • At heights
  • Dangerous
  • Dusty
  • Noisy

  • Work setting

  • Commercial
  • Residential
  • Various locations

  • Tasks

  • Apply successive coats of compound and sand seams and joints
  • Clean and prepare surfaces
  • Cut and install metal corner beads to protect exterior corners
  • 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
  • Mix plaster ingredients to desired consistency
  • Mould and install ornamental plaster panels, cornices and trim
  • Smooth out excess compound and allow coat to dry
  • Tape over joints using taping machine and embed tape in compound
  • Cut openings in lath for heating and ventilation piping, ducts and electrical outlets
  • 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
  • Manual dexterity
  • Physically demanding
  • Repetitive tasks
  • Standing for extended periods
  • Tight deadlines
  • Walking
  • Work under pressure

  • Weight handling

  • Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)

  • Own tools/equipment

  • Hard hat

  • Personal suitability

  • Client focus
  • Dependability
  • Excellent oral communication
  • Flexibility
  • Judgement
  • Reliability
  • Team player

  • Experience

  • 2 years to less than 3 years

  • Support for newcomers and refugees

  • Supports newcomers and/or refugees with foreign credential recognition

  • Support for youths

  • Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for youth

  • Support for Indigenous people

  • Provides cultural competency training and/or awareness training to all employees to create a welcoming work environment for Indigenous workers

  • Supports for visible minorities

  • Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (for example: anonymizing the hiring process, etc.)
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