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.
- Survey building locations and levels.
- Maintain, repair and renovate residences and wooden structures in mills, mines, hospitals, industrial plants and other establishments.
Requirements
Education Secondary (high) school graduation certificate.
Equipment and machinery experience Hand tools.
3 years to less than 5 years.
Other
Work site environment
- At heights.
- Noisy.
- Dusty.
- Outdoors.
Work setting
- Construction.
- Various locations.
- Renovation.
- Commercial.
- Industrial.
- Residential.
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Support for Indigenous people Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports Indigenous people.
Support for mature workers Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports mature workers .
Supports for visible minorities Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports members of visible minorities.