drywall installer lead hand
Pro Drywall Contractors Inc.
Date: 17 hours ago
City: Airdrie, Alberta
Salary:
CA$36
per hour
Contract type: Full time

- Durée de l'emploi: Permanent
- Langue de travail: Anglais
- Heures de travail: 40 to 44 hours per week
- Education:
- Expérience:
Education
- Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- or equivalent experience
Work site environment
- At heights
- Dusty
- Noisy
Work setting
- Commercial
- Residential
- Various locations
Tasks
- Read blueprints, drawings and specifications to determine work requirements
- Supervise other workers
- Apply successive coats of compound and sand seams and joints
- 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
- Smooth out excess compound and allow coat to dry
- Tape over joints using taping machine and embed tape in compound
- Attach metal or gypsum lath to studs or furring
- Install corner beads and wire mesh around beams to which plaster is to be applied
- 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
- Repetitive tasks
- Sound discrimination
- Standing for extended periods
- Work under pressure
Weight handling
- Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
Own tools/equipment
- Steel-toed safety boots
Personal suitability
- Dependability
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Reliability
- Team player
Experience
- 3 years to less than 5 years
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
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