Drywall Finisher - Kitchener, Canada - DONIKI CONSTRUCTION
2 weeks ago
Description
Work Term:
Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 30 hours per week
- Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
- Experience: 1 to less than 7 months
Work site environment:
- At heights
- Cold/refrigerated
- Dangerous
- Dusty
- Hot
- Noisy
Work setting:
- Commercial
- Residential
- Various locations
- Relocation costs covered by employer
Tasks:
- Apply, level and smooth coats of plaster
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses:
- Fall Arrest Protection Training Course
Work conditions and physical capabilities:
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- 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
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