Overview
Languages
English
Education
- No degree, certificate or diploma
Experience
1 to less than 7 months
Work setting
- Various locations
- Renovation
- Residential
- Residential renovation
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Read and interpret blueprints, drawings and sketches to determine specifications and calculate requirements
- Prepare layouts in conformance to building codes, using measuring tools
- Measure, cut, shape, assemble and join materials made of wood, wood substitutes, lightweight steel and other materials
- Build foundations, install floor beams, lay subflooring and erect walls and roof systems
- Fit and install windows, doors, stairs, mouldings and hardware
- Supervise other workers
- Maintain, repair and renovate residences and wooden structures in mills, mines, hospitals, industrial plants and other establishments
Additional information
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Work with minimal supervision
Own tools/equipment
- Steel-toed safety boots
- Safety glasses/goggles
Personal suitability
- Accurate
- Client focus
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Judgement
- Reliability
- Team player
- Values and ethics
- Punctuality
Benefits
Other benefits
- Free parking available
- Learning/training paid by employer
- Parking available
- Variable or compressed work week