Carpenter - Orlando

Job Description

Construct, erect, install, concrete forms; building frameworks; wood stairways, window and door frames. May also include installing cabinets, drywall and batt or roll insulation, doors and hardware, toilet partitions and accessories, trim, as well as other types of general trades tasks.

Job Tasks

• Measure and mark lines on materials, using ruler, pencil, chalk, and marking gauge.
• Verify trueness of structure, using plumb bob and level.
• Possess the skill required to construct and install block outs per drawings.
• Able to install embedded angles, plates, bolts and other anchors to formwork prior to placing concrete.
• Able to install keyway, water stops and waterproofing materials in footings and formwork.
• Shape or cut materials to specified measurements, using hand tools, machines, or power saw.
• Understand blueprints, sketches or building plans to determine dimensions and materials required for form, or framing, construction.
• Assemble and fasten materials to make framework or props, using hand tools and wood screws, nails, dowel pins, or glue.
• Build or repair doors, frameworks, floors, and other wooden fixtures used in buildings, using woodworking machines, carpenter's hand tools, and power tools.
• Erect scaffolding and ladders for assembling structures above ground level.
• Select and order lumber and other required materials.
• Construct forms and chutes for pouring concrete.

Required Knowledge

• Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of buildings or other structures, foundations and framing.
• Knowledge of arithmetic, basic geometry, and their applications to carpentry.
• Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective installations of concrete formwork, shoring, anchor bolts, embedded items, water stops and keyways.
• Knowledge of machines and tools, including uses, repair, and maintenance associated with carpentry and woodworking.
• Knowledge of basic building layout and leveling, grades and benchmarks.
• Basic knowledge of building codes.

Skills Required

• Using mathematics to solve problems.
• Ability to accurately measure lengths with ruler or tape.
• Basic blueprint reading.
• Safe use of power tools such as saws, drills, planes, sanders, routers and grinders.
• Basic understanding and use of a builders level for setting grades.

Abilities Required

• The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
• The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• The ability to walk, bend, stoop, climb ladders and stairs, lift and carry materials in association with carpentry activities.