Career:
Helpers--Carpenter
Job Description: Help carpenters by performing duties requiring less skill. Duties include using, supplying or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment.
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What Helpers--Carpenters do:
- Clean work areas, machines, or equipment, to maintain a clean and safe job site.
- Select tools, equipment, aor materials from storage and transport items to work site.
- Position and hold timbers, lumber, or paneling in place for fastening or cutting.
- Fasten timbers or lumber with glue, screws, pegs, or nails and install hardware.
- Align, straighten, plumb, or square forms for installation.
- Cut timbers, lumber and/or paneling to specified dimensions, and drill holes in timbers or lumber.
- Erect scaffolding, shoring, or braces.
- Smooth or sand surfaces to remove ridges, tool marks, glue, or caulking.
- Hold plumb bobs, sighting rods, or other equipment to aid in establishing reference points and lines.
- Glue and clamp edges or joints of assembled parts.
- Install handrails under the direction of a carpenter.
- Cut and install insulating or sound-absorbing material.
- Perform tie spacing layout and measure, mark, drill or cut.
- Construct forms and assist in raising them to the required elevation.
- Cover surfaces with laminated plastic covering material.
- Cut tile or linoleum to fit and spread adhesives on flooring for installation.
- Secure stakes to grids for constructions of footings, nail scabs to footing forms, and vibrate and float concrete.
What work activities does a Helpers--Carpenter do?
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Performing General Physical Activities - Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling of materials. |
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Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material - Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects. |
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Handling and Moving Objects - Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things. |
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Making Decisions and Solving Problems - Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems. |
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Getting Information - Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources. |
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Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates - Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person. |
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Controlling Machines and Processes - Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles). |
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Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events - Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events. |
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Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge - Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job. |
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Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work - Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work. |
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Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings - Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems. |
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Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards - Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards. |
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Thinking Creatively - Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions. |
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Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People - Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people. |
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Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment - Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or water craft. |
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Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others - Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks. |
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Analyzing Data or Information - Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts. |
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Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment - Servicing, repairing, adjusting, and testing machines, devices, moving parts, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of mechanical (not electronic) principles. |
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Training and Teaching Others - Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others. |
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Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships - Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time. |
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Scheduling Work and Activities - Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others. |
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Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information - Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity. |
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Processing Information - Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data. |
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Communicating with Persons Outside Organization - Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail. |
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Developing and Building Teams - Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members. |
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Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment - Providing documentation, detailed instructions, drawings, or specifications to tell others about how devices, parts, equipment, or structures are to be fabricated, constructed, assembled, modified, maintained, or used. |
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