This posting reflects an existing vacancy.
Join On Side Restoration as a Drywaller/Painter and help rebuild homes and businesses after disaster strikes. You’ll repair and finish drywall, apply textures, and bring spaces to life with fresh paint.
Compensation
- Salary Range: $22-$28/hour
- Overtime opportunities (where applicable)
- On-call premium and overtime paid for rotating coverage
Benefits
- Extended health coverage (medical, dental, vision, etc.)
- Employee assistance program (EAP)
- Group RRSP, with company matching DPSP
- Life and disability insurance
- Opportunities for advancement and internal mobility
What You’ll Do
- Measure, cut, install, and repair damaged drywall
- Estimate the quantity of materials required by measuring surfaces, reviewing scopes, sketches and work orders
- Ceiling texture
- Tape, mud, sand, and texture surfaces
- Prepare and protect work sites
- Prepare surfaces and apply primers, paints, stains, or finishes
- Apply finishes that are sponged, ragged and layered
- Feathering/blending wall paint
- Match colors and apply coatings using brushes, rollers, or spray guns
What You Bring
- 5+ years of drywall repair experience (cutting, mudding, sanding, taping, painting)
- Experience with restoration repairs (vs new or renovation)
- Level 5 drywall finishing technique
- Brush/roller/spray gun paint experience to finish the area for uniformity and completion
- Construction experience and tool proficiency: you have your own tools for the job
- Previous experience reading and executing work orders
- Texturing skills (knockdown, popcorn, orange peel)
- Leadership to guide helpers and train less experienced workers
- Physically fit: able to do heavy lifting (moving materials) and long periods of kneeling/bending/crouching/reaching
- Ability to work independently or in a team
- Tech-savvy (comfortable using apps/software)
- Strong communication and people skills
- Detail-oriented, quality-driven, safety-focused
- Valid driver’s licence and clean criminal record (we do check)
- Ability to communicate effectively in English, both written and spoken
Why You’ll Love Working Here
- A workplace that values respect, integrity, generosity, excellence and being customer driven
- Opportunities to grow your career and learn from the best in the industry
- A culture that celebrates teamwork, inclusion, and customer-driven service
Of Note:
Disasters can strike at any time so a rotating schedule of 24/7 after hours on-call work is a requirement. Meaning you’ll work regular weekday hours and participate in a rotating after-hours on-call schedule.
At On Side, everything starts with people. We live our values — respect, integrity, generosity, excellence, and customer focus — in everything we do.
Join a team that helps families, businesses, and communities rebuild when it matters most. You’ll contribute to a workplace where people come together to bring order to chaos.
Make a real impact, do work that matters, and grow your career with us.
*Your application is always reviewed by real people. We don’t use artificial intelligence to screen, assess, or select applicants for this role.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: $22.00-$28.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Dental care
- Disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- RRSP match
- Vision care
Application question(s):
- Do you have your own trade tools for drywall and painting? Please note that On Side provides materials and supplies.
- This role sometimes requires working later than scheduled, as jobs may need an extra hour or two to finish properly. Please explain your ability to stay late when needed, knowing all overtime is paid.
- Nice to have: carpentry experience and the ability to assist with finish work on site. Please speak to your in-home carpentry skill set / experience.
- Attitude is key! Are you ambitious? Are you easy to get along with and treat others with respect? Are you a good listener and communicator? Do you want to genuinely help co-workers and clients and people in general? Please explain.
- This role involves working in homes affected by fire or flood damage and completing drywall repairs from start to finish, including installation, taping, mudding, texturing, and final paint. The ideal candidate can fully restore damaged areas of a home. Please explain why you would be a strong fit for this position.
- Are you legally entitled to work in Canada?
Please note if you are Canadian Citizen, Permanent Resident, Open Work Permit, Closed Work Permit, International Student Study Permit
- Restoration work requires documentation and tracking throughout your workday. Do you have basic computer and/or tablet/iPad experience?
- Are you able to work a Rotating On-Call Schedule (Responding to emergency calls after business hours)? This is additional to scheduled daytime hours. Premium and overtime is paid.
Experience:
- Brush and Roller Painting: 3 years (preferred)
- Drywalling and Drywall Repair: 3 years (preferred)
- Texture Spraying: 3 years (preferred)
Licence/Certification:
- Canadian Driver's License (required)
Work Location: In person
