Carpenter - Manhattan
Listed on 2026-07-24
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Trades / Skilled Labor
Construction Labor & Trades, Carpentry, Building Maintenance
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Works on construction projects using carpentry skills to build components such as stairs, partitions, cabinets, molding, windows and doors, construct forms, and subflooring.
- Uses a variety of construction materials, hand, pneumatic, and power tools, and small machinery.
- Maintains all safety standards.
- Builds stairs and installs partitions.
- Installs window frames, doors, door frames, weather stripping, and basic hardware (interior and exterior).
- Installs cabinets and molding.
- Erects and works on scaffolding and ladders for assembling structures above ground level.
- Operates hand and power tools, including chisels, planes, saws, drills, and sanders to repair and erect structures.
- Operates small machinery, as needed.
- Works with materials such as wood, plastic, fiberglass, or drywall.
- Joins materials with nails, screws, staples, adhesives, and other applicable tools.
- Identifies, reports, or corrects potential hazards associated with task assignments to maintain a safe work area.
- Loads and unloads materials up to 100 pounds.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Experience in rough and finish carpentry (blocking, frames/doors, hardware, millwork, and casework), or equivalent education, knowledge, and skills.
- Familiarity with field concepts, practices, and procedures.
- Proven ability to accurately perform construction activities or projects, including usage of various power tools and small machinery.
- Good interpersonal skills and team spirit.
- Demonstrated success in working safely on projects.
- Language skills: ability to read, analyze, and interpret contract documents, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, procedure manuals, and blueprints/plans; ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
- Mathematical skills: ability to perform basic construction math, including measuring, transposing, calculating cut lengths, and basic volumes.
- Reasoning ability: ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables; ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
- Ability to pass background check, drug screen, physical capacity profile, and E-Verify.
- Reliable transportation method to get to and from work.
- OSHA 10‑hour training.
- Applicable certifications, such as Lift Operation, Scaffold, etc.
The job requires frequent standing, walking, handling objects and tools with hands, reaching, climbing or balancing, stooping or kneeling, and lifting or moving up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities include distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
WORKING CONDITIONSWork is performed outdoors in various weather conditions, near moving equipment, occasionally in high or precarious places, and sometimes in wet or humid conditions. The noise level is usually moderate.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITYWe are an equal opportunity employer. The contractor will not discharge or otherwise discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. The contractor will disclose pay only in response to a formal complaint or charge, as part of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, or consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information (41 CFR 60‑1.35(c)).
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