About this role
Education: Other trades certificate or diploma. or equivalent experience. Work site environment: At heights. Dusty. Noisy. Work setting: Commercial. Residential. Various locations.
Tasks
- Read blueprints, drawings and specifications to determine work requirements . Supervise other workers.
- Apply successive coats of compound and sand seams and joints.
- 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.
- Tape over joints using taping machine and embed tape in compound.
- Install corner beads and wire mesh around beams to which plaster is to be applied.
- Erect and install scaffolding, falsework and other working platforms.
- Supervision: 1 to 2 people.
- Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses : Fall Arrest Protection Training Course.
- Work conditions and physical capabilities: Bending, crouching, kneeling.
- Hand-eye co-ordination.
- Handling heavy loads.
- Large workload.
- Physically demanding.
- Repetitive tasks.
- Standing for extended periods.
- Tight deadlines.
- Walking.
- Work under pressure.
- Weight handling: Up to 45 kg (100 lbs).
- Own tools/equipment: Hard hat.
- Mask.
- Safety glasses/goggles.
- Steel-toed safety boots.
- Screening questions: Are you currently a student?.
- Do you have experience working in this field?.
- Do you have the required certifications listed in the job posting?.
- Employment terms options: Evening.
- Experience: 2 years to less than 3 years.
- Employment terms options: Morning.
- Day.