carpenter
Your tasks
- 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.
- Build foundations, install floor beams, lay subflooring and erect walls and roof systems.
- Fit and install windows, doors, stairs, mouldings and hardware.
- Schedule and co-ordinate work on sites.
- Instruct apprentices.
- Supervise other workers.
- Maintain, repair and renovate residences and wooden structures in mills, mines, hospitals, industrial plants and other establishments.
Requirements
Secondary (high) school graduation certificate.
1 year to less than 2 years.
Other
Work setting
- Various locations.
- Commercial.
- Residential.
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Bending, crouching, kneeling.
- Handling heavy loads.
- Physically demanding.
Employment terms options
- Evening.
Employment terms options
- Morning.
- Day.
- Weekend.