Carpenters

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• 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.
• Marks cutting and assembly lines on materials.
• Shapes materials to prescribed measurements.
• Assembles cut and shaped materials and fastens them together with nails, dowel pins, or glue.
• Verifies trueness of structure with plumb bob and carpenter’s level.
• Erects framework for structures and lays subflooring.
• Builds stairs and lays out and installs partitions and cabinet work.
• 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.
• Applies shock-absorbing, sound-deadening, and decorative paneling to ceilings and walls.
• Fits and installs prefabricated window frames, doors, doorframes, weather stripping, interior and exterior trim, and finishes hardware, such as locks, letterdrops, and kick plates.
• Constructs forms and chutes for pouring concrete.
• Inspect scaffolding and ladders for assembling structures above ground level.
• Welds metal parts to steel structural members.
• Install gypboard 
• Tape and texture of all styles 
• Painting procedures 
• Apply stucco and texture all styles 
• Install structural clips and straps 
• Install shear plywood 
• Install shear gypboard 
• Lifting beams or other objects into place heavier than 100 pounds 
• Implement Safety Standards consistent with Safety Program 
• Begin to purchase your own tools necessary to perform basic carpentry tasks 
• Any other duty which may be assigned from time to time 
• Begin to blend job related education, skills, and experience to perform the following:
• Install all thread (epoxy) 
• Install tie downs 
• Install building paper and flashband 
• Flash windows 
• Install sheet metal 
• Install caulking and sealants
• Trenching (Digging with shovels) 
• Hauling (debris, materials, etc.) 
• Denailing 
• Stock material 
• Clean up (debris, nails, screws, etc. daily) 
• Dust protection of units 
• Rough Demolition