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 email: [email protected]
By mail: 536 38A Ave SE Calgary, AB T2G 1X4
