Employment Information
- Post ID: 224369846
- Posted Date: Sep 22, 2025
- Close Date: Nov 23, 2025 (open for 61 days)
- Company: Kelco Drywall
- Category: Construction & Renovation
- Business Location:Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
- Total Views: 847
- Listing Age: 0 calendar days (1 business days)
- Last Updated: 3 hours ago
- Job URL: https://tribaljobs.ca/jobs/224369846/british-columbia/kelowna/drywall-installer/
Job Details
- Experience: 3 years - 5 years
- Opening Positions: 2
- Remuneration: $36.60 to $36.95 per hour (To be negotiated) / 40 hours per week Minimum wage is guaranteed
- Commencement Date: As soon as possible
- Education: Other trades certificate or diploma
- How to apply: email to [email protected]
Job Description
Tasks
- Read blueprints, drawings and specifications to determine work requirements
- Apply successive coats of compound and sand seams and joints
- Apply, level and smooth coats of plaster
- 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
- Tape over joints using taping machine and embed tape in compound
- Install acoustic tile, hangers for suspended ceilings and metal studs for composition wallboard or lath
- 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
- Prepare wall and ceiling layouts
- Utilize laser alignment system
- Work at heights, on scaffolding or swing stages
Additional information
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Manual dexterity
- Physically demanding
- Repetitive tasks
- Standing for extended periods
- Work under pressure
Weight handling
- Up to 45 kg (100 lbs)
Personal suitability
- Dependability
- Judgement
- Reliability
- Team player