Employment Information
- Post ID: 650461953
- Posted Date: Jun 15, 2025
- Close Date: Aug 1, 2025 (open for 46 days)
- Company: Pro Drywall Contractors Inc.
- Category: Construction & Renovation
- Business Location:Airdrie, Alberta, Canada
- Total Views: 954
- Listing Age: 0 calendar days (0 business days)
- Last Updated: 9 hours ago
- Job URL: https://tribaljobs.ca/jobs/650461953/alberta/airdrie/drywall-installer-lead-hand/
Job Details
- Experience: 3 years - 5 years
- Opening Positions: 2
- Remuneration: $36.00 per hour / 40 to 44 hours per week
- Commencement Date: As soon as possible
- Education: High school graduation certificate
- How to apply: email to [email protected]
Job Description
Tasks
- Read blueprints, drawings and specifications to determine work requirements
- 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
- 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
- Smooth out excess compound and allow coat to dry
- Tape over joints using taping machine and embed tape in compound
- Attach metal or gypsum lath to studs or furring
- Install corner beads and wire mesh around beams to which plaster is to be applied
- Work at heights, on scaffolding or swing stages
- Erect and install scaffolding, falsework and other working platforms
Additional information
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Handling heavy loads
- Large workload
- Manual dexterity
- Physically demanding
- Repetitive tasks
- Sound discrimination
- Standing for extended periods
- Work under pressure
Weight handling
- Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
Own tools/equipment
- Steel-toed safety boots
Personal suitability
- Dependability
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Reliability
- Team player