Career Details :: Rough Carpenters
Description
Build rough wooden structures, such as concrete forms, scaffolds, tunnel, bridge, or sewer supports, billboard signs, and temporary frame shelters, according to sketches, blueprints, or oral instructions.
Experience
Previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is required for these occupations. For example, an electrician must have completed three or four years of apprenticeship or several years of vocational training, and often must have passed a licensing exam, in order to perform the job.
Education
Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree. Some may require a bachelor's degree.
Training
Employees in these occupations usually need one or two years of training involving both on-the-job experience and informal training with experienced workers.
Tasks
- Bores bolt-holes in timber with masonry or concrete walls, using power drill.
- Cuts or saws boards, timbers, or plywood to required size, using handsaw, power saw, or woodworking machine.
- Measures materials or distances, using square, measuring tape, or rule to lay out work.
- Studies blueprints and diagrams to determine dimensions of structure or form to be constructed or erected.
- Fabricates parts, using woodworking and metalworking machines.
- Installs rough door and window frames, subflooring, fixtures, or temporary supports in structures undergoing construction or repair.
- Examines structural timbers and supports to detect decay, and replaces timber, using hand tools, nuts, and bolts.
- Erects forms of prefabricated forms, framework, scaffolds, hoists, roof supports, or chutes, using hand tools, plumb rule, and level.
- Assembles and fastens material together to construct wood or metal framework of structure, using bolts, nails, or screws.
- Digs or directs digging of post holes and sets pole to support structure.
- Anchors and braces forms and other structures in place, using nails, bolts, anchor rods, steel cables, planks, wedges, and timbers.
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Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Performing General Physical Activities
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, Material
- Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
- Controlling Machines and Processes
Important Skills
Frequent Work Context
- Consequence of Error
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
- Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
- Using Hands on Objects, Tools, Controls
- Outdoors
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