Carpenter (Non-Union)

1 week ago


Lafayette, United States Bilfinger Inc. Full time
Job DescriptionJob Description

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Studies blueprints, sketches, or building plans for information pertaining to type of material required, such as lumber or fiberboard, and dimensions of structure or fixture to be fabricated.
  • Selects specified type of lumber or other materials. Prepares layout, using rule, framing square, and calipers.
  • Marks cutting and assembly lines on materials, using pencil, chalk, and marking gage. Shape's materials to prescribed measurements, using saws, chisels, and planes.
  • Assembles cut and shaped materials and fastens them together with nails, dowel pins, or glue.
  • Verifies trueness of structure with plumb bob and carpenter's level.
  • Erects framework for structures and lays subflooring. Builds stairs and lays out and installs partitions and cabinet work.
  • Covers subfloor with building paper to keep out moisture and lays hardwood, parquet, and wood-strip-block floors by nailing floors to subfloor or cementing them to mastic or asphalt base.
  • Applies shock-absorbing, sound-deadening, and decorative paneling to ceilings and walls.
  • Fits and installs prefabricated window frames, doors, doorframes, weather stripping, interior and exterior trim, and finish hardware, such as locks, letter drops, and kick plates.
  • Constructs forms and chutes for pouring concrete.
  • Erects scaffolding and ladders for assembling structures above ground level.

Basic Qualifications:

Minimum 3 years of civil carpenter experience. Workers should be able to:

  • Work within precise limits or standards of accuracy
  • Apply shop mathematics to solve problems
  • Plan work and select proper tools; Compare and see differences in the size, shape, and form of lines, figures, and objects
  • Picture solid objects from drawings or diagrams
  • Perform a variety of duties which may change often; and rate information using standards that can be measured or checked.

Relocation assistance is not provided.

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