Certified Carpenter

Qualifications

Completion of a four year federally approved technical training program in carpentry; OR, Four years' carpentry experience; OR, Any equivalent combination of experience and/or education from which comparable knowledge, skills, and abilities have been achieved.

Posting Name

Certified Carpenter

Location

MAINTENANCE DEPT

Job Category

Non-Certified Application

Schedule

Salary

N/A

Licensed Position

No

Full Time

Yes

Carpenter

Completion of a four year federally approved technical training program in carpentry; OR, Four years' carpentry experience; OR, Any equivalent combination of experience and/or education from which comparable knowledge, skills, and abilities have been achieved.

Reports to:

Maintenance Supervisor

• 1) Constructs, erects, installs, and repairs structures and fixtures of wood, plywood, and wallboard, using carpenter's handtools and power tools, and conforming to local building codes:
  Studies blueprints, sketches, or building plans for information pertaining to type of material required, such as lumber or fiberboard, and dimensions of structure or fixture to be fabricated.
• 2) Selects specified type of lumber or other materials.
• 3) Prepares layout, using rule, framing square, and calipers.
• 4) Marks cutting and assembly lines on materials, using pencil, chalk, and marking gauge.
• 5) Shapes materials to prescribed measurements, using saws, chisels, and planes.
• 6) Assembles cut and shaped materials and fastens them together with nails, dowel pins, or glue.
• 7) Verifies trueness of structure with plumb bob and carpenter's level.
• 8) Erects framework for structures and lays subflooring.
• 9) Builds stairs and lays out and installs partitions and cabinet work.
• 10) Covers subfloor with building paper to keep out moisture and lays hardwood, parquet, and wood-strip-block floors by nailing floors to subfloor or cementing them to mastic or asphalt base.
• 11) Applies shock-absorbing, sound-deadening, and decorative paneling to ceilings and walls.
• 12) Fits and installs prefabricated window frames, doors, door frames, weather stripping, interior and exterior trim, and finish hardware, such as locks, letter drops, and kick plates.
• 13) Constructs forms and chutes for pouring concrete.
• 14) Erects scaffolding and ladders for assembling structures above ground level.
• 15) May weld metal parts to steel structural members.
• 16) When specializing in particular phase of carpentry, is designated according to specialty as Combination-Window Installer; Lay-Out Carpenter.
• 17) When specializing in finish carpentry, such as installing interior and exterior trim, building stairs, and laying hardwood floors, is designated Finish Carpenter.
• 18) When erecting frame buildings and performing general carpentry work in residential construction, is designated House Carpenter.
• 19) May remove and replace sections of structures prior to and after installation of insulating materials and be designated Building-Insulating Carpenter.
• 20) May perform carpentry work in construction of walk-in freezers and environmental test chambers and be designated Carpenter, Refrigerator.
• 21) May be designated:
  Door Hanger;
  Finished-Hardware Erector;
  Garage-Door Hanger;
  Hardwood-Floor Installer;
  Jalousie Installer;
  Stair Builder;
  Trim Setter;
  Weather Stripper;
  Wood-Sash-And-Frame Carpenter;
  Wood-Strip-Block Floor Installer.