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