Drywall Installer
Posted on Dec 21, 2020 by LGC Global Contracting LTD
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Location Chestermere, AB
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Earnings $26.00 hourly
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Work Hours 44 hours per week
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Position Permanent Full Time
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Vacancies 2 Vacancies
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Closing Date Feb 17, 2021
Employer
LGC Global Contracting LTD
Languages
English
Education
- Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- or equivalent experience
Experience
1 year to less than 2 years
Additional Skills
- Work at heights, on scaffolding or swing stages
- Supervise other workers
- Read and interpret blueprints, maps, drawings and specifications
- Estimate costs and materials
Weight Handling
Up to 9 kg (20 lbs)
Work Setting
- Residential
- Commercial
Own Tools/Equipment
- Tools
- Steel-toed safety boots
- Hard hat
- Safety glasses/goggles
- Mask
Work Site Environment
- At heights
- Noisy
- Dusty
Transportation/Travel Information
Own vehicle
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Large workload
- Tight deadlines
Ability to Supervise
3-4 people
Work Location Information
Various locations
Personal Suitability
- Flexibility
- Team player
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Reliability
Plasterer Specific Skills
- Spray acoustic or texture materials over walls and ceilings
- Mix plaster ingredients to desired consistency
- Clean and prepare surfaces
- Apply, level and smooth coats of plaster
- Trowel or spray coats of stucco over exteriors of buildings to form weatherproof surfaces
- Finish corners and angles and create decorative designs in finish coat, if required
- Mould and install ornamental plaster panels, cornices and trim
- Cure freshly plastered surfaces
Drywall Installer and Finisher Specific Skills
- Measure, cut, fit and install drywall sheets
- Cut and install metal corner beads to protect exterior corners
- Fill joints, nail indentations, holes and cracks with joint compound using trowel and broad knife
- Tape over joints using taping machine and embed tape in compound
- Fabricate and install suspended metal ceiling grids and place in panels to form acoustical and coffered ceilings
- Smooth out excess compound and allow coat to dry
- Apply successive coats of compound and sand seams and joints
- Position and secure sheets to metal or wooden studs or joists
Lather Specific Skills
- Utilize laser alignment system
- Install exterior and interior steel studs
- Install vapour barriers and thermal and sound insulation
- Attach metal or gypsum lath to studs or furring
- Install metal stud framing and furring for interior drywall or plaster walls and ceilings, using hand and power tools
- Cut openings in lath for heating and ventilation piping, ducts and electrical outlets
- Prepare wall and ceiling layouts
- Install corner beads and wire mesh around beams to which plaster is to be applied
- Install acoustic tile, hangers for suspended ceilings and metal studs for composition wallboard or lath
How to Apply
Anyone who can legally work in Canada can apply for this job. If you are not currently authorized to work in Canada, the employer will not consider your job application.
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Interest in copying information to attach metal and gypsum lath to studs and furring using nails, screws, clips and wire ties
- OBJECTIVE
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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
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Interest in installing corner beads and wire mesh around beams for plastering
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