Interior Systems Finishers, Installers, and Plasterers
Job description
These individuals take care of the structure of the ceilings, walls, and partitions of buildings. They install framework, install gypsum board, and apply limestone coatings such as plaster, mortar, cement, or aggregates.
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
- Climatic conditions
- Equipment, machinery, tools
- Nontoxic dust
- Uncontrolled ambient temperature
- Hazardous workplaces
Main tasks
Lather
- Prepare the configuration of walls and ceilings.
- Install metal framing and furring strips and attach metal or gypsum laths.
- Make openings in the slats for pipes, ducts, and electrical outlets.
- Put strips and mesh around beams that are to be plastered.
- Install acoustic tiles, suspended ceiling supports, and metal studs.
Plasterers
- Clean and prepare the surfaces to be plastered.
- Mix the ingredients and apply layers of plaster, roughcast, acrylic, or other substitutes.
- Create decorative patterns in the topcoat, as required.
- Treat freshly plastered surfaces.
- Mould and install plaster panels, cornices, and ornamental mouldings.
- Spray soundproofing materials or textured finish on walls and ceilings.
Interior System Installers and Finishers
- Cut and fit gypsum panels and attach to studs or joists.
- Cut and install sticks to protect the outside corners.
- Apply filler to different areas (joints, holes, slots, etc.) and sand the joints.
- Manufacture and install suspended ceilings.
- Install soundproofing and coffered ceilings.
Advancement and mobility
- Qualified Lathers (Interior Systems Specialists), Grouters, and Plasterers receive a Red Seal endorsement upon successful completion of the Interprovincial Standards Examination.
- Experience leads to supervisory positions.
Hourly wage
The hourly wage is calculated by averaging wages from 2022 to 2024.- Minimum
- $25.00
- Median
- $37.00
- Maximum
- $43.25
Job prospects for 2024-2028
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Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects
All of Québec
Very good
All of Québec
Non available
Total jobs for 2023
All of Québec
7,000
All of Québec
na
Gender distribution
All of Québec
Not available.
- 5.6% Female
- 94.4% Male
Not available.
- 5.6% Female
- 94.4% Male
Job types
All of Québec
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2020
All of Québec
$54,000
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- Seasonal worker
- Non traditional for women
- None
All of Québec
- Seasonal worker
- Non traditional for women
- None
Sectors of activity
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 2396% of jobs
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NAICS 55, 561% of jobs
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NAICS 910% of jobs
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NAICS 3210% of jobs
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NAICS 621, 622, 6230% of jobs
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Others3% of jobs
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 2396% of jobs
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NAICS 55, 561% of jobs
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NAICS 910% of jobs
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NAICS 3210% of jobs
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NAICS 621, 622, 6230% of jobs
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Others3% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
Most training programs are offered in French only.
Secondary
DVS in plâtrage
Code : 5286
Placement rate: 88%
9% of graduates pursue further studies
DVS in pose de systèmes intérieurs
Code : 5350
Placement rate: 83.4%
8.2% of graduates pursue further studies
Also required
- Certificate of qualification.
Sometimes required
- Three to four years of apprenticeship as a Plasterer, Lather, or Interior Systems Installer or more than three years of formal school or industry experience and training as a Plasterer, Lather, or Interior Systems Installer are usually required.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Quality control analysis
- Active listening
- Time management
Abilities
- Near vision
- Manual dexterity
- Hand-arm stability
- Core strength
- Physical flexibility in extension
- Limb coordination
- Overall balance of the body
- Static muscle power
- Endurance
- Dynamic strength
- Verbal skills
- Awareness of issues
- Visualization
- Speech clarity
- Oral comprehension
- Overall coordination of the body
- Digital dexterity
- Information organization
- Colour perception and distinction
- Control accuracy
Knowledge and attributes
- Capacity to work under pressure
- Focussed on results
- Capacity to work in a team
- Knowledge of mathematics
- Rigour
- Attention to detail
- Sense of observation
- Knowledge of buildings and construction
- Patience
- Timeliness
Interests
- Make, build, install
- Self-employment
- Work manually
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Realistic
- People with this profile prefer carrying out concrete tasks and being physically involved in what they do.
- Conventional
- People with this profile prefer specific, well-defined tasks. They like to respect the order of things and follow established rules.
- Social
- People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
Official name of the NOC 73102
Plasterers, drywall installers and finishers and lathers
Job titles
- Interior System Installers
- Plasterers
- Seam caulker - construction
- Lather
- Finish plasterer
- Sheetrock applicator
- Drywall interior systems installer
- Trades helper - construction
- Construction helper
- Spray truck helper
- Road spray truck helper
- Fitter helper - construction
- Waterproofer helper
- Brickmason's helper
- Bricklayer helper
- Firebrick layer helper
- Insulator helper
- Tile layer helper
- Floor layer's helper
- Carpenter helper
- Maintenance carpenter helper
- Renovation carpenter helper
- Cement finisher helper
- Paperhanger helper - construction
- Concrete paver operator helper
- Road mixer operator helper
- Dragline operator helper
- Power shovel operator helper
- Pile driver operator helper - crane operation
- Tank builder helper
- Metal roofer helper - construction
- Roofer helper
- Asphalt roofer helper
- Cabinetmaker's helper
- Construction electrician helper
- Tinsmith helper - construction
- Concrete finisher helper
- Interior finisher helper
- Terrazzo finisher helper
- Driller helper - surface mining
- Diamond driller helper - surface mining
- Water well driller helper
- Concrete former helper
- Dampproofer helper
- Foundation dampproofer helper
- Awning installer helper
- Oil burner installer helper
- Drywall and acoustical board installer helper
- Floor coverer helper
- Access floor installer helper
- Lightning rod erector helper
- Vanity and kitchen cupboard installer helper
- Sider helper
- Industrial chimney repairer-mason helper
- Mason's helper
- Marble setter helper
- Floorcovering mechanic helper
- Joiner helper - construction
- Rigger's helper - construction
- Metal scaffold erector helper
- Steel erector helper
- Framer helper - construction
- Ironworker helper
- Steel forms setter helper
- Steam fitter's helper - construction
- Ornamental iron erector helper
- Interior and exterior wall erector helper
- Ornamental metal worker helper
- Plate fitter helper - construction
- Structural plate fitter helper - construction
- Foundation drill operator helper
- Concrete mixer helper
- Highway concrete mixer operator helper
- Churn drill operator helper - water well
- Tunnelling machine operator helper - construction
- Horizontal earth-boring machine helper
- Air track drill operator helper
- Mole operator helper - construction
- Terrazzo mechanic helper
- Carpet mechanics helper
- Pile-driving lead placer helper
- Glass worker helper - construction
- Painter helper - construction
- Building painter helper
- Pavement line painter helper
- Painter and decorator helper
- Plasterer helper
- Plumber helper
- Terrazzo polisher helper
- Floor sander and finisher helper
- Hoseman/woman insulation helper
- Carpet layer helper
- Metal trim erector helper
- Exterior cladder helper
- Floorcovering installer helper
- Sheather helper
- Terrazzo layer helper
- Glass setter helper
- Rotary driller helper - water well
- Welder-fitter helper - construction
- Pipeline welder helper
- Insulation blower helper
- Sheet metal worker helper - construction
- Construction trades helper
- Pipefitter helper - construction
- Glazier helper
- Waterproofer - construction
- Concrete waterproofer - construction
- Foundation waterproofer - construction
- Guniter - construction
- Drywall finisher apprentice
- Lather apprentice
- Apprentice plasterer
- Drywall installer and finisher apprentice
- Apprentice drywall applicator
- Asphalt cold patcher
- Asphalt spreader
- Highway maintenance worker
- Pile driving chainman/woman
- Crane hooker
- Drywall installer lead hand
- Cement gun nozzle operator
- Drywall nailer
- Foundation form worker
- Bill poster
- Journeyman/woman drywall installer
- Journeyman/woman lather
- Journeyman/woman plasterer
- Bituminous paving machine operator
- Dope machine operator - pipelines
- Jackhammer operator - construction
- Vibrator roller operator
- Manual curb builder
- Concrete pourer - construction
- Concrete block pourer
- Concrete float pourer
- Sewer digger
- Ditch cleaner - construction
- Grade tamper - construction
- Concrete breaker
- Building wrecker
- Building and house wrecker
- Form remover - construction
- Pipe doper - construction
- Asbestos remover
- Paper latcher - construction
- Blacktop spreader
- Drywall finisher
- Post hole driller
- Gas line fuser
- Smelter liner
- Rigger - construction
- Door frame installer
- Drywall and ceiling system installer
- Gypsum plasterboard applicator
- Wall and ceiling installer
- Wallboard installer
- Drywall applicator
- Drywall and lather applicator
- Ceiling installer
- Acoustical ceiling installer
- Pipeline-liner installer
- Interior drywall systems installer
- Ceiling system installer
- Water pipe installer
- Masonry pointer and caulker
- Caulker - construction
- Grouter
- Precast concrete caulker
- Drywall taper
- Window caulker
- Wallboard taper
- Pipeline caulker
- Construction labourer
- Lather (interior systems mechanic)
- Shore dredging labourer
- Demolition worker
- Crane chaser
- Concrete paving labourer
- Bituminous paving labourer
- Paving operations labourer
- Underground labourer - construction
- Asphalt plant labourer - construction
- Quarry labourer
- Pit bottom worker
- Pipeline labourer
- Deck worker
- Construction craft labourer
- Excavation labourer
- Clamper - construction
- Measurer
- Terrazzo machine grinder
- Rigger (except shipbuilding and aircraft assembly)
- Scaffold erector
- Metal form setter - construction
- Monument erector
- Highway sign erector
- Tombstone erector
- Brick cleaner
- Concrete spreader operator
- Air tool operator
- Cement mixer operator - construction
- Tamper operator
- Pipe-cleaning and covering machine operator
- Concrete gun operator
- Cement gun operator
- Bending machine operator - pipelines
- Vibratory compactor operator
- Air gun operator
- Grout machine operator
- Pipeline mandrel operator
- Air hammer operator - construction
- Air breaker operator
- Pneumatic drill operator - construction
- Manual concrete vibrator operator
- Concrete pump operator
- Mud jack operator
- Cement pump operator
- Grout pump operator
- Insulation blower operator
- Drywall mechanic
- Drywall and acoustic mechanic
- Asphalt worker - road
- Bridge gang worker - construction
- Spreader box tender
- Manual stone spreader operator
- Steel form setting worker
- Slip form curb machine tender
- Power curber tender
- Cement and concrete pump tender
- Asbestos worker - construction
- Preheater tender - pipelines
- Air lock tender
- Pile driving ground worker
- Nozzle worker - pile driving
- Dredge worker
- Pipeline worker - construction
- Construction worker
- Pavement line painter
- Skid setter
- Ornamental plasterer
- Fireproofing plasterer
- Plasterer-decorator
- Moulding plasterer
- Exterior plasterer
- Manual terrazzo grinder
- Drywall sander
- Wallboard sander
- Drywall installer and finisher
- Rip-rap placer
- Acoustic tile installer
- Acoustic tile and drywall installer
- Road form setter
- Gas pipelayer - construction
- Wire mesh setter
- Reinforcing wire mesh worker
- Gyproc applicator
- Gypsum lather
- Stucco lather
- Wood lather
- Wire lather
- Metal lather
- Insulation hoseman/woman
- Fireproofing applicator
- Monument setter
- Interior drywall installer
- Tombstone setter
- Stabber - pipeline construction
- Batterboard setter
- Seat installer - construction
- Stucco plasterer
- Pipelayer - construction
- Pipelayer - irrigation
- Pipelayer - drainage systems
- Sewage pipelayer
- Asbestos fibre preparer
- Pipe aligner - pipeline construction
- Spacer - pipeline construction
- Quarry dump attendant
- Asphalt mixer
- Gunite mixer - construction
- Asphalt raker
- Blacktop raker
- Cupola spray reliner
- Flagperson
- Insulation blower
- Digger - construction
- Pavement striper
- Excavation worker
- General construction labourer
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