Overview
Languages
English
Education
- No degree, certificate or diploma
Experience
3 years to less than 5 years
Work setting
- Commercial
- Residential
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Instruct apprentices
- Apply successive coats of compound and sand seams and joints
- 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
- Smooth out excess compound and allow coat to dry
- Tape over joints using taping machine and embed tape in compound
Additional information
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Repetitive tasks
- Standing for extended periods
Weight handling
- Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
Own tools/equipment
- Hard hat
- Mask
- Safety glasses/goggles
- Steel-toed safety boots
- Tools