drywall installer

Additional Information

• Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
• Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years

Work setting

• Various locations

Tasks

• Instruct apprentices
• Supervise other workers
• Apply successive coats of compound and sand seams and joints
• Apply, level and smooth coats of plaster
• Clean and prepare 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
• 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
• Spray acoustic or texture materials over walls and ceilings
• 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
• Prepare wall and ceiling layouts
• Estimate costs and materials
• Read and interpret blueprints, maps, drawings and specifications
• Work at heights, on scaffolding or swing stages
• Erect and install scaffolding, falsework and other working platforms
• Work Term: Permanent
• Work Language: English
• Hours: 40 hours per week