Carpenter

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Professionally represent GH Phipps Wyoming and effectively support Company strategic initiatives

• Establish and foster positive long-term relationships with internal customers and business partners

• Execute GH Phipps Wyoming policies and procedures

• Embraces a lean culture and work environment

• 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

• Identifies tie off and access points, installing ladders to meet safety requirements, tying off 100% of the time

• Prepares layout

• Maintains a clean work area free of tripping hazards and helps others to do the same daily

• Marks cutting and assembly lines on materials

• Shapes materials to prescribed measurements

• Assembles cut and shaped materials and fastens them together with nails, dowel pins, or glue

• 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 wall

• 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

• Welds metal parts to steel structural members

SKILLS

• Know how to use all the tools of his trade
• Know how to read blueprints
• Know layout; plumb, level, square
• Know safe and efficient procedures
• Rough carpentry skills
• Finish carpentry skills
• Good math, reading and writing skills
• Understand the schedule

EDUCATION

Carpentry experience preferred