Northern Ca. - Taper

Anning-Johnson Company; Hayward (CA); On-site; USD 28,000 - 79,000; Full time

Job summary

Anning-Johnson Co in Hayward, CA is seeking a drywall taper to finish walls and ceilings with hand and mechanical tools, ensuring high-quality standards and safety. The role involves reading drawings, applying joint compound, and achieving prescribed finish levels while coordinating with foremen on production flow.

Typical duties include tapping, coating, sanding (dry, wet, vacuum), and finishing corners. The position follows union wage scales within the San Francisco Bay area, with emphasis on

Qualifications

• Reading drawings and interpreting joints and levels.
• Proactive organization of materials and workflow.
• Commitment to high-quality finishing and safety standards.
• Ability to work with hand and mechanical finishing tools.

Responsibilities

• Apply drywall tape and compound to seams and indentations.
• Finish walls/ceilings to specified levels and sand between coats.
• Read drawings, check joints, and ensure alignment with framing.
• Maintain a clean work area and properly store tools and materials.
• Finish corners and perform dry, wet, and vacuum sanding as required.
• Spray finish compound and understand the 5 levels of drywall finishing.

Skills

Reading drawings

Organizing materials

Quality focus

Safety aware

Job description

Tapers are required to finish walls, ceilings and trim using hand tools and mechanical tools that conform to the required levels of finishing standards. While maintaining the necessary production and quality required to complete a project and exceeding the customers' expectations. Tapers apply drywall tape compound to the seams between drywall panels and to nail and screw indentations on the surface of the panels. Tapers work on new walls and ceiling installs and make repairs to existing walls as well. Tapers install and finish metal, plastic, and aluminum trims. Apply number of coats of compound per specified level of finish, and sand areas after each coat.

Additional responsibilities include:

• Reading and interpreting drawings
• Checking working surfaces - verify panels joints are tight and aligned, fastened to framing members tightly without breaking the paper surface or fracturing the core.
• Establishing a work schedule and flow of work
• Organizing and verifying materials
• Cleaning and repairing tools
• Mixing Joint compounds
• Applying fill coats
• Applying finish coats
• Finishing inside and outside corners
• Dry sanding
• Wet sanding
• Vacuum sanding
• Skim coating over gypsum board, concrete, or other related materials
• Spraying finish compound
• Know and understand the 5 levels and methods of drywall finishing.

Tapers are typically responsible for the production and quality of the products they install. A Taper will usually report to a foreman or lead man and will be assigned a range of tasks to be completed. Timely production and quality are the main responsibilities of a Taper. In addition, Tapers are responsible for working safely and maintaining a safe work environment. Tapers must work within precise limits and standards of specified finish level. Physically, Tapers must be able to: Climb and maintain balance on scaffolds and ladders; reach for, handle, and manipulate objects and materials; lift and carry objects weighing up to 100 pounds; stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl, and see well (either naturally or with correction).

NOTE: In the San Francisco Bay area wages range from $20.01 per hour for entry level apprentices to $57.16 per hour for Journeyman. Wages are determined by union scale as determined in the current collective bargaining agreement.

Anning-Johnson Co is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. It is the policy of the Company to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disability status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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