drywall installer

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

  • Read blueprints, drawings and specifications to determine work requirements
  • Clean and prepare surfaces
  • Fabricate and install suspended metal ceiling grids and place in panels to form acoustical and coffered ceilings
  • Measure, cut, fit and install drywall sheets
  • Position and secure sheets to metal or wooden studs or joists
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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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