Drywall Installer and Finisher - Vancouver, Canada - AVOS CONSTRUCTION LTD
Description
Work Term:
Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 40 hours per week
- Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- Experience: 2 years to less than 3 years
Work site environment:
- At heights
- Dangerous
- Dusty
- Hot
- Noisy
- Outdoors
Work setting:
- Commercial
- Industrial
- Residential
- Various locations
Tasks:
- 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
- Position and secure sheets to metal or wooden studs or joists
- Smooth out excess compound and allow coat to dry
- Spray acoustic or texture materials over walls and ceilings
- Tape over joints using taping machine and embed tape in compound
- 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
- 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
- Handeye coordination
- Handling heavy loads
- Overtime required
- 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
- Steeltoed safety boots
Personal suitability:
- Dependability
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Reliability
- Team player
Screening questions:
- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
Workplace information:
- On the road job
Financial benefits:
- As per collective agreement
Other benefits:
- Free parking available
- Learning/training paid by employer
- Transportation provided by employer
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