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Drywall Installer
Employer
Sunstar Commercial Services Ltd.Date Posted
May 24, 2025Languages
English-
Location Edmonton, AB
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Earnings $32.00 hourly
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Work Hours 30 to 40 hours per week
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Position Permanent Full Time
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Vacancies 1  Vacancy
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Closing Date Jun 23, 2025
Employer
Sunstar Commercial Services Ltd.
Languages
English
Education
- Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- or equivalent experience
Work site environment
At heights
Work setting
Various locations
Tasks
- Instruct apprentices
- Apply successive coats of compound and sand seams and joints
- 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
- Measure, cut, fit and install drywall sheets
- Smooth out excess compound and allow coat to dry
- Tape over joints using taping machine and embed tape in compound
- 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
- 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
- Large workload
- Physically demanding
- Repetitive tasks
- Tight deadlines
- Work under pressure
Personal suitability
- Reliability
- Team player
Experience
7 months to less than 1 year
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Interest Codes
- METHODICAL
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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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It’s based on the Canadian Work Preference Inventory (CWPI), which measures 5 occupational interests: Directive, Innovative, Methodical, Objective, and Social.
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