Apprentice Carpenter

**Work site environment**:

- At heights
- Confined spaces
- Noisy
- Dusty

**Work setting**:

- Construction
- Various locations
- Commercial
- Residential

**Tasks**:

- Read and interpret blueprints, drawings and sketches to determine specifications and calculate requirements
- Measure, cut, shape, assemble and join materials made of wood, wood substitutes, lightweight steel and other materials
- Build foundations, install floor beams, lay subflooring and erect walls and roof systems
- Fit and install windows, doors, stairs, mouldings and hardware
- Maintain, repair and renovate residences and wooden structures in mills, mines, hospitals, industrial plants and other establishments

**Transportation/travel information**:

- Own transportation

**Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Handling heavy loads
- Large workload
- Physically demanding
- Tight deadlines

**Own tools/equipment**:

- Steel-toed safety boots

**Personal suitability**:

- Accurate
- Excellent oral communication
- Judgement
- Reliability
- Team player