Job Details
- Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 40 hours per week
- Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
- Experience: 5 years or more
Work site environment
Work setting
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
- Supervise other workers
- Maintain, repair and renovate residences and wooden structures in mills, mines, hospitals, industrial plants and other establishments
- Remove rubble and other debris at construction sites
- Load, unload and transport construction materials
- Assist in framing houses, erecting walls and building roofs
- Clean and pile salvaged materials
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- Carpenter Trade Certification
- First Aid Certificate
- Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) Certificate
- Carpenter Red Seal Certificate
- Fall Arrest Protection Training Course
Apprenticeship training
- Level four apprenticeship training
- Level five apprenticeship training
Equipment and machinery experience
- Hand tools
- Drills
- Air compressors
- Reciprocating saws
- Circular saws
- Air guns
- Nail guns
Transportation / travel information
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Physically demanding
- Fast-paced environment
- Attention to detail
- Hand-eye co-ordination
Own tools / equipment
Personal suitability
Health benefits
- Dental plan
- Health care plan
- Vision care benefits
Financial benefits
- Bonus
- Life insurance
- Pension plan
- Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)
Other benefits
- Learning / training paid by employer