Carpenter

Job Description

Job Description:

The Carpenter is responsible for constructing, repairing and installing wooden structures and building frameworks, ensuring that projects are completed on time and to the client's specifications.

Job Duties

• Installing wooden structures such as roofing framers, joists, partitions, rafters, and stud work
• Read and interpret blueprints, drawings and sketches to determine specifications and calculate 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
• Prepare tenders and quotations
• 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