Carpenter*

About the role

The position involves performing skilled carpentry work at the journeyman level, including tasks such as building, constructing, and repairing various wooden structures and fixtures.

Responsibilities

• Performs rough and finished carpentry
• Modifies, repairs, and maintains buildings and building surfaces
• Inspects, repairs, and/or replaces ceiling tiles
• Reads, interprets, and works from blueprints and drawings
• Schedules and coordinates work
• Lays out scope of work and provides rough estimates
• Operates planers, jointers, drill presses, power saws, routers, and other woodworking machinery
• Assembles, repairs, and/or modifies furniture
• Repairs and sharpens hand and machine tools
• Affords assistance to other structural trades' personnel in the performance of their duties
• Uses computer to access e-mail, receive work instructions, and other administrative information
• Communicates daily using a two-way radio, and/or communication device
• Ensures shop equipment is in proper working condition
• Mixes, matches, and applies stains, dyes, and finishes
• Matches lumber types and grades
• Performs all other related duties as assigned

Qualifications

• High school diploma, GED or equivalent
• Minimum of four (4) years’ experience in the trade as a journeyman carpenter
• Knowledge of carpentry practices, terminology, and safe handling of tools and equipment
• Ability to operate common woodworking machinery, prepare rough sketches of work, and estimates of materials and labor
• Ability to read blueprints and recognize lumber types and grades
• Ability to keep simple records and basic math skills
• Ability to understand and carry out verbal and written instructions, maintain required records, and read and understand manuals and drawings
• Ability to use hand and power tools applicable to trade
• Interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively and interact with people of all ages and diverse backgrounds
• Ability to work independently and prioritize tasks
• Ability to move, lift, and/or carry equipment, parts, and job related materials with or without assistance, exerting 50 to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 25 to 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or 10 to 20 pounds of force constantly
• Ability to accurately discern colors
• Valid motor vehicle operator’s license to drive University of Delaware vehicles