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Job Details

Drywall Installer And Finisher

Employer

Aroma Construction Ltd

Date Posted

October 29, 2024

Languages

English
  • Location Airdrie, AB
  • Earnings $29.50 hourly
  • Work Hours 35 to 40 hours per week
  • Position Permanent Full Time
  • Vacancies 2  Vacancies
  • Closing Date Nov 28, 2024
Job Requirements

Employer

Aroma Construction Ltd

Languages

English

Education

Secondary (high) school graduation certificate

Work site environment

  • Dusty
  • Noisy

Work setting

  • Commercial
  • Residential
  • Various locations

Tasks

  • 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
  • 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
  • Tape over joints using taping machine and embed tape in compound
  • 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
  • Overtime required
  • Physically demanding
  • Repetitive tasks
  • Standing for extended periods
  • Walking
  • Work under pressure

Weight handling

Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)

Experience

2 years to less than 3 years

Support for newcomers and refugees

Recruits newcomers and/or refugees who were displaced by a conflict or a natural disaster (for example: Ukraine, Afghanistan, etc.)

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

Support for mature workers

Provides staff with awareness training to create a welcoming work environment for mature workers

Supports for visible minorities

Provides diversity and cross-cultural training to create a welcoming work environment for members of visible minorities


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Interest Codes & Abilities
The Drywall Installer And Finisher is part of the following larger National Occupational Classification (NOC).

Interest Codes

Lathers
METHODICAL

Interest in copying information to attach metal and gypsum lath to studs and furring using nails, screws, clips and wire ties

OBJECTIVE

Interest in precision working to cut openings in lath for heating and ventilation piping, ducts and electrical outlets; may install acoustic tile, hangers for suspended ceilings and metal studs for composition wallboards and laths

innovative

Interest in installing corner beads and wire mesh around beams for plastering

Reading Interest Codes
A Quick Guide

The interest code helps you figure out if you’d like to work in a particular occupation. 

It’s based on the Canadian Work Preference Inventory (CWPI), which measures 5 occupational interests: Directive, Innovative, Methodical, Objective, and Social.

Each set of 3 interest codes for this NOC group is listed in order of importance.

A code in capital letters means it’s a strong fit for the occupation.

A code in all lowercase letters means the fit is weaker.

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