Job Description – Apprentice Carpenter
Busy leader in commercial, industrial, multi-family and agricultural building construction, in search of motivated Apprentice Carpenter to join our team.
Scope: Construction trades helpers and labourers support skilled tradespersons and work on industrial sites in residential, institutional, and commercial settings. In addition to preparing and cleaning up the site, setting up and removing equipment/materials, and assisting where needed, they are required to be enrolled in trade schooling. This educational component ensures a comprehensive understanding of industry best practices and safety protocols. Moreover, they may be tasked with performing security and safety checks as requested.
1. Working within our Carpentry division the Apprentice Carpenter will focus primarily on renovations, installations, or repairs to existing and new construction projects.
2. Preparing site and building layouts
3. Constructing foundations and concrete structures
4. Framing structures
5. Applying interior and exterior finishes
Reports to: This role reports directly to the Foreman Carpenter
Tasks, Activities, Functions: When practising or otherwise carrying out work in the trade, the following tasks, activities, and functions come within the trade:
1. Work under the supervision of the journeyman carpenter, assisting them in their duties.
2. Set up and maintain tools for your supervising carpenter.
3. Learn and practice essential carpentry skills.
4. Review and interpret construction drawings, plans, specifications, building codes, and related documentation.
5. Measuring, cutting, and assembling materials.
6. Operating hand and power tools related to the trade.
7. Shoring and underpinning of existing structures, parts of structures or excavations.
8. Laying out and erecting batter boards, building lines and setting elevations.
9. Installing, using, and dismantling personnel handling devices, scaffolds, ropes, slings, hoists on rigging installation, ladders, shoring, covered walkways and barricades.
10. Assembling, erecting, installing and dismantling structures.
11. Setting up hoarding and other temporary structures.
12. Framing – exterior walls and interior partitions; architectural features; post and beam construction and timber framing; plank walls; roof systems; blocking, nailers, and firestops; ceiling and floor systems
13. Installing – preserved wood foundations; sill plates on foundation walls; drainage tile and pipe; beams and columns; floor frames; wood stairways and railings; metal stud non-loadbearing walls; suspended ceiling systems; engineered pre-fabricated roof systems; roof coverings; exterior and interior doors and windows; insulation materials in ceilings, walls and floors; air and vapour barriers; caulking, adhesion and sealant materials; exterior walls finishes; building envelope systems; gypsum and non-gypsum products on interior walls and ceilings; interior cabinets, display cases, mirrors, counters, laminates, panelling, mouldings and trim; prefabricated fireplaces; exterior attachments to structures including additions, porches, stoops and verandas; timber bents to support ramps, platforms and heavy piping; timber culverts; placement of precast concrete panels; building and stripping forms for beams and girders, piers and columns; building forms, installing concrete reinforcement materials, placing and consolidating concrete and stripping forms for footings; walls; floors; sidewalks, driveways and curbs; stairs; built-in-place concrete manholes, catch basins, utility vaults and other underground service boxes; tilt-up precast concrete panels; void forms for grade or subterranean concrete.
Safety Responsibilities
- To read, understand and comply with company safety policies, safe work practices, procedures, rules, and legislated requirements.
- To wear the safety equipment and personal protective devices (i.e.: seatbelts in vehicles) and clothing required by legislation and their employer.
- To notify supervisor(s) of any unsafe conditions or acts that may be of danger to other workers or themselves.
- To report all accidents to their supervisor(s) as soon as possible.
- To take every reasonable precaution to protect the safety of other workers and themselves.
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
- Dental care
- Extended health care
- Vision care
Schedule:
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Overtime
- Weekends as needed
Work Location: In person
