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Career Details :: Helpers, Carpenters
Description
Help carpenters by performing duties of lesser skill. Duties include using, supplying, or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment.
Experience
No previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, a person can become a general office clerk even if he/she has never worked in an office before.
Education
These occupations may require a high school diploma or GED certificate. Some may require a formal training course to obtain a license.
Training
Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few days to a few months of training. Usually, an experienced worker could show you how to do the job.
Tasks
- Positions and holds timbers, lumber, and paneling in place for fastening or cutting.
- Selects needed tools, equipment, and materials from storage and transports items to work site.
- Fastens timbers and/or lumber with glue, screws, pegs, or nails.
- Cuts and installs insulating or sound-absorbing material.
- Drills holes in timbers or lumber.
- Erects scaffolding, shoring, and braces.
- Spreads adhesives on flooring to install tile or linoleum.
- Cuts tile or linoleum to fit.
- Holds plumb bobs, sighting rods, and other equipment to aid in establishing reference points and lines.
- Covers surfaces with laminated plastic covering material.
- Hews timbers.
- Cuts timbers, lumber, and/or paneling to specified dimensions.
- Smoothes and sands surfaces to remove ridges, tool marks, glue, or caulking.
- Glues and clamps edges or joints of assembled parts.
Related Careers
- Carpenter Assemblers and Repairers
- Construction Carpenters
- Construction Laborers
- Helpers, Brickmasons, Blockmasons, Stonemasons, and Tile and Marble Setters
- Helpers, Pipelayers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters
- Pipelayers
- Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmasons
- Reinforcing Iron and Rebar Workers
Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Performing General Physical Activities
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Establishing & Maintaining Relationships
- Controlling Machines and Processes
- Communicating With Other Workers
Important Skills
Frequent Work Context
- Job-Required Social Interaction
- Hazardous Equipment
- Using Hands on Objects, Tools, Controls
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
- Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
Related Majors
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