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Summary Job Description | Tasks | |||
Construct, erect, install, and repair structures and fixtures of wood, plywood, and wallboard, using carpenter's hand tools and power tools. | Measure and mark cutting lines on materials, using ruler, pencil, chalk, and marking gauge. | |||
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Follow established safety rules and regulations and maintain a safe and clean environment. | ||||
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Verify trueness of structure, using plumb bob and level. | ||||
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Shape or cut materials to specified measurements, using hand tools, machines, or power saw. | ||||
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Study specifications in blueprints, sketches or building plans to prepare project layout and determine dimensions and materials required. | ||||
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Assemble and fasten materials to make framework or props, using hand tools and wood screws, nails, dowel pins, or glue. | ||||
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Build or repair cabinets, doors, frameworks, floors, and other wooden fixtures used in buildings, using woodworking machines, carpenter's hand tools, and power tools. | ||||
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Erect scaffolding and ladders for assembling structures above ground level. | ||||
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Remove damaged or defective parts or sections of structures and repair or replace, using hand tools. | ||||
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Install structures and fixtures, such as windows, frames, floorings, and trim, or hardware, using carpenter's hand and power tools. | ||||
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Select and order lumber and other required materials. | ||||
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Maintain records, document actions and present written progress reports. | ||||
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Finish surfaces of woodwork or wallboard in houses and buildings, using paint, hand tools, and paneling. | ||||
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Prepare cost estimates for clients or employers. | ||||
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Arrange for subcontractors to deal with special areas such as heating and electrical wiring work. | ||||
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Inspect ceiling or floor tile, wall coverings, siding, glass, or woodwork to detect broken or damaged structures. | ||||
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Work with or remove hazardous material. | ||||
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Construct forms and chutes for pouring concrete. | ||||
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Cover subfloors with building paper to keep out moisture and lay hardwood, parquet, and wood-strip-block floors by nailing floors to subfloor or cementing them to mastic or asphalt base. | ||||
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Fill cracks and other defects in plaster or plasterboard and sand patch, using patching plaster, trowel, and sanding tool. | ||||
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Perform minor plumbing, welding or concrete mixing work. | ||||
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Apply shock-absorbing, sound-deadening, and decorative paneling to ceilings and walls. | ||||
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and Competencies
Construction Carpenters
The Benchmark Job Description below represents the specific Position Characteristics of the job used in the Salary Survey. Benchmark Job Descriptions should be inspected carefully to review the degree of matching between an organizations' Job and the Salary Survey Benchmark. Matching internal Jobs to Salary Survey Benchmark Jobs should not be done on Job Title alone. A thorough comparison of Salary Survey Benchmark to Internal Job Descriptions is recommended. A good overlap should exist on any comparisons used on critical Job Dimensions and Competencies.- Job Description
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Important Knowledge Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Building and Construction | Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads. | |||
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Mathematics | Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications. | |||
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Mechanical | Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance. | |||
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Production and Processing | Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods. | |||
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Design | Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models. | |||
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Administration and Management | Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources. | |||
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Public Safety and Security | Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions. | |||
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Customer and Personal Service | Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. | |||
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Engineering and Technology | Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services. | |||
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Education and Training | Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects. | |||
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Important Skill Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. | |||
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Equipment Selection | Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job. | |||
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Operation Monitoring | Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly. | |||
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Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. | |||
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Mathematics | Using mathematics to solve problems. | |||
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Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. | |||
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Coordination | Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. | |||
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Quality Control Analysis | Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance. | |||
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Judgment and Decision Making | Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. | |||
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Time Management | Managing one's own time and the time of others. | |||
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Reading Comprehension | Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. | |||
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Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. | |||
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Active Learning | Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. | |||
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Operations Analysis | Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design. | |||
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Operation and Control | Controlling operations of equipment or systems. | |||
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Important Ability Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Manual Dexterity | The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects. | |||
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Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. | |||
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Multilimb Coordination | The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion. | |||
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Static Strength | The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects. | |||
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Trunk Strength | The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without 'giving out' or fatiguing. | |||
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Finger Dexterity | The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects. | |||
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Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |||
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Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. | |||
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Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). | |||
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Visualization | The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged. | |||
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Arm-Hand Steadiness | The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. | |||
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Stamina | The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath. | |||
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Extent Flexibility | The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs. | |||
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Far Vision | The ability to see details at a distance. | |||
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Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. | |||
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Mathematical Reasoning | The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem. | |||
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Control Precision | The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions. | |||
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Gross Body Equilibrium | The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position. | |||
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Depth Perception | The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object. | |||
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Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). | |||
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Number Facility | The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly. | |||
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Perceptual Speed | The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object. | |||
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Spatial Orientation | The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you. | |||
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Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. | |||
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Reaction Time | The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears. | |||
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Dynamic Strength | The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue. | |||
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Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |||
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Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |||
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Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | |||
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Flexibility of Closure | The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. | |||
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Speed of Limb Movement | The ability to quickly move the arms and legs. | |||
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Gross Body Coordination | The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion. | |||
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Auditory Attention | The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds. | |||
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Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
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Prerequisite Qualification Category | Education and Experience Level | |||
Required Level of Education | High School Diploma (or GED or High School Equivalence Certificate) | |||
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On-the-Job Training | Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year | |||
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Alternate Job Title(s) | |||
Aluminum Siding Applicator | |||
Aluminum Siding Installer | |||
Aluminum Siding Mechanic | |||
Asbestos Siding Mechanic | |||
Assembled Wood Products Repairer | |||
Assembler | |||
Beam Builder | |||
Boat Builder | |||
Boat Carpenter | |||
Boat Carpenter Mechanic | |||
Boat Finisher | |||
Boat Joiner | |||
Boat Repairer | |||
Boatwright | |||
Bowling Alley Floors Installer | |||
Brick Siding Applicator | |||
Building Carpenter | |||
Cabinet Installer | |||
Cabinetmaker | |||
Canoe Builder | |||
Car Framer | |||
Carpenter | |||
Carpenter Apprentice | |||
Carpenter Assembler | |||
Carpenter Repairer | |||
Casket Assembler | |||
Ceiler | |||
Composition Siding Worker | |||
Composition Weatherboard Applier | |||
Concrete Carpenter | |||
Construction Framer | |||
Construction Supervisor | |||
Construction Worker | |||
Cooper | |||
Counter Installer | |||
Crater | |||
Custom Stair Builder | |||
Door Hanger | |||
Door Installer | |||
Doormaker | |||
Finish Carpenter | |||
Floor Coverer Apprentice | |||
Flume Worker | |||
Framer | |||
Framing Carpenter | |||
Garage Door Hanger | |||
Garage Door Installer | |||
Hardwood Floor Installer | |||
Hardwood Floor Layer | |||
Hogshead Cooper | |||
House Carpenter | |||
House Repairer | |||
Inside Finisher | |||
Installer | |||
Interior Paneler | |||
Interior Systems Carpenter | |||
Joiner Apprentice | |||
Jointer | |||
Laboratory Equipment Installer | |||
Lather | |||
Lather Apprentice | |||
Lay-Out Worker | |||
Lead Carpenter | |||
Maintenance Carpenter | |||
Mast Maker | |||
Mechanical Carpenter | |||
Metal Tile Lather | |||
Metal Weather Stripper | |||
Miniature Set Builder | |||
Model Set Artist | |||
Mold Carpenter | |||
Mold Maker | |||
Molder | |||
Molding and Trim Installer | |||
Motion Picture Scene Builder | |||
Overhead Garage Door Hanger | |||
Panel Installer | |||
Pole Frame Construction Worker | |||
Prefabricated Houses Trimmer | |||
Production Worker | |||
Prop Maker | |||
Prototype Carpenter | |||
Railcar Carpenter | |||
Refinisher | |||
Residential Builder | |||
Residential Carpenter | |||
Roof Assembler | |||
Sash Installer | |||
Sheather | |||
Shingler | |||
Ship Carpenter | |||
Ship Ceiler | |||
Ship Fitter | |||
Ship Joiner | |||
Shipwright | |||
Shipwright Apprentice | |||
Sider | |||
Sider Mechanic | |||
Siding Applicator | |||
Siding Mechanic | |||
Sign Carpenter | |||
Sparmaker | |||
Stage Rigger | |||
Stair Builder | |||
Storm Window Installer | |||
Stull Installer | |||
Subassembly Assembler | |||
Tank Builder and Erector | |||
Tank Carpenter | |||
Tank Erector | |||
Trim Carpenter | |||
Trimmer | |||
Weather Strip Installer | |||
Weather Strip Mechanic | |||
Weather Stripper | |||
Window Assembler | |||
Window Installer | |||
Window Repairer | |||
Window Sash Installer | |||
Windows and Doors Installer | |||
Wood Boatbuilder | |||
Wood Boatbuilder Apprentice | |||
Wood Car Builder | |||
Wood Floor Layer | |||
Wood Tank Builder | |||
Wood Tank Erector | |||
Wooden Tank Erector | |||
Woodworker | |||
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