Job details
- Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 40 hours per week
- Education: Other trades certificate or diploma
- Experience: 3 years to less than 5 years or equivalent experience
Work site environment
- At heights
- Confined spaces
- Noisy
- Dusty
- Outdoors
Work setting
- Construction
- Various locations
- Renovation
- Historical restoration
- Commercial
- Industrial
- Institutional
- Millwork / pre-fab shopwork
- Residential
- Roads and bridges
Level of expertise
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
- Maintain, repair and renovate residences and wooden structures in mills, mines, hospitals, industrial plants and other establishments
Equipment and machinery experience
Security and safety
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Handling heavy loads
- Large workload
- Physically demanding
- Tight deadlines
- Work with minimal supervision
Own tools / equipment
- Steel-toed safety boots
- Hard hat
- Safety glasses / goggles
Personal suitability
- Accurate
- Client focus
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Judgement
- Reliability
- Team player
- Values and ethics
- Punctuality