Carpenter

Summary

Constructs, erects, and repairs structures; must have own hand tools.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Must be able to work while tied off to fall protection
• Skilled in use of necessary hand and power tools
• Must be able to work with level
• Studies and understands blueprints, sketches, or bridge plans for information pertaining to type of material required
• Selects specified type of lumber or other materials
• Prepares layout
• Measures boards, timbers, or plywood, and marks cutting lines on materials
• Shapes materials to prescribed measurements
• Nails cleats (braces) across boards to construct concrete-supporting forms
• Braces forms in place with timbers, tie rods, and anchor bolts, for use in building concrete piers, footing, and walls
• Assembles cut and shaped materials and fastens them together with nails, dowel pins, or glue
• Sets expansion dams
• Assemble or run overhang modules or stick built overhangs
• Climb wingwalls, retaining walls
• Assemble wood deck forms
• Constructs forms and chutes for pouring concrete
• Assists in pouring and finishing of concrete
• Erects scaffolding and ladders for assembling structures above ground level

Qualifications

Carpenter Training Program or equivalent, or experience in bridge work, i.e. bridge form work; read blue prints, read rule.

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear
• Must frequently work or walk on uneven ground and is required to wear steel toed boots at all times
• Occasionally required to climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl
• Must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus

Work Environment

• Regularly exposed to high, precarious places and outside weather conditions
• Occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles, risk of electrical shock, and vibration
• Occasionally exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals
• Noise level is usually moderate, occasionally loud

Pay

$29 - $34/hr based on region.

Benefits

Competitive compensation and benefits package including medical, life, and disability insurance, paid time off and a 401K plan.