Job details
Location: Calgary, AB T2G 1X4
Salary: $28.00 hourly / 32 to 35 hours per week
Terms of employment: Permanent employment, Full time
Evening, Flexible hours, Morning, Day, Weekend, Overtime available
Starts as soon as possible
Overview
Experience: 7 months to less than 1 year
Work site environment: At heights, Dusty, Noisy, Outdoors
Work setting: Commercial, Residential, Various locations, Work in employer’s/client’s home
Responsibilities
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
- Clean and prepare surfaces
- Cure freshly plastered surfaces
- 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
- 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
- Mould and install ornamental plaster panels, cornices and trim
- Position and secure sheets to metal or wooden studs or joists
- Smooth out excess compound and allow coat to dry
- Spray acoustic or texture materials over walls and ceilings
- Tape over joints using taping machine and embed tape in compound
- Trowel or spray coats of stucco over exteriors of buildings to form weatherproof surfaces
- Cut openings in lath for heating and ventilation piping, ducts and electrical outlets
- Install corner beads and wire mesh around beams to which plaster is to be applied
- 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
- Work at heights, on scaffolding or swing stages
Additional information
Work conditions and physical capabilities
Bending, crouching, kneeling
Physically demanding
Repetitive tasks
Standing for extended periods
Tight deadlines
Work under pressure
Weight handling: Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
Personal suitability: Flexibility, Judgement, Reliability, Team player
How to Apply
By mail
536 38A Ave SE Calgary, AB T2G 1X4
