Job Detail

Responsibilities

Tasks

• 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
• Finish corners and angles and create decorative designs in finish coat, if required
• Measure, cut, fit and install drywall sheets
• Position and secure sheets to metal or wooden studs or joists
• Tape over joints using taping machine and embed tape in compound
• Attach metal or gypsum lath to studs or furring
• Cut openings in lath for heating and ventilation piping, ducts and electrical outlets
• Install acoustic tile, hangers for suspended ceilings and metal studs for composition wallboard or lath
• 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
• 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
• Physically demanding
• Sound discrimination
• Standing for extended periods
• Tight deadlines
• Walking
• Work under pressure