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