Rough Carpenter
Build rough wooden structures, such as concrete forms, scaffolds, tunnels, bridges, or sewer supports, billboard signs, and temporary frame shelters, according to sketches, blueprints, or oral instructions.
Responsibilities
- Study blueprints and diagrams to determine dimensions of structure or form to be constructed.
- Maintain job records and schedule work crew.
- Anchor and brace forms and other structures in place, using nails, bolts, anchor rods, steel cables, planks, wedges, and timbers.
- Assemble and fasten material together to construct wood or metal framework of structure, using bolts, nails, or screws.
- Measure materials or distances, using square, measuring tape, or rule to lay out work.
- Erect forms, framework, scaffolds, hoists, roof supports, or chutes, using hand tools, plumb rule, and level.
Required Skills
- Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Coordination: Adjusting actions in relation to others’ actions.
Other Rough Carpenter Job Titles
- Platform Builder
- Partition Setter
- House Carpenter
- Bracer
- Ventilation Worker
Tools & Technology
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Windows
- Drawing and drafting software
- Bosch Punch List