Carpenter

Education

- Expérience

- **Education**

• Secondary (high) school graduation certificate

- ** Work site environment**

• Noisy
• Dusty

- ** Work setting**

• Construction
• Various locations
• Renovation

- ** Tasks**

• Prepare estimates of labour and/or material costs
• Read blueprints, drawings and sketches to determine work requirements
• Prepare layouts in conformance to building codes, using measuring tools
• Measure, cut, shape, assemble and join materials made of wood, wood substitutes, lightweight steel and other materials
• Prepare tenders and quotations
• Build foundations, install floor beams, lay subflooring and erect walls and roof systems
• Fit and install windows, doors, stairs, mouldings and hardware
• Instruct apprentices
• Supervise other workers
• Estimate costs and materials
• Operate CADD and other computer software systems
• Maintain, repair and renovate residences and wooden structures in mills, mines, hospitals, industrial plants and other establishments
• Operate woodworking machines, such as power saws, jointers, mortisers and shapers, to cut, shape and form parts and components

- ** Work conditions and physical capabilities**

• Bending, crouching, kneeling
• Handling heavy loads
• Physically demanding
• Attention to detail

- ** Experience**

• 3 years to less than 5 years

- ** Workplace information**

• On the road job
• Durée de l'emploi: Permanent
• Langue de travail: Anglais
• Heures de travail: 40 hours per week