| Almost all construction projects employ
carpenters the largest group of building trade workers.
Carpenters perform a variety of jobs. In home building,
carpenters build the house framework, frame the roof and
interior partitions, install doors, windows, flooring,
cabinets, wood paneling, molding, and trim. Other
construction jobs done by carpenters include building
forms for placing concrete, erecting scaffolding, and
building bridges, piers, trestles, tunnel supports,
temporary shelters, retaining walls, dams, and
cofferdams. Working
from blueprints, instructions from supervisors, or both,
carpenters first so the layout-measuring, marking, and
arranging materials according to the plan. Carpenters cut
and shape materials such as wood, plastic, fiberglass,
and drywall with hand and power tools such as chisels,
planes, saws, and drills. Carpenters then join the
materials with nails, screws, or glue. They check the
accuracy of their work with levels, rules, plumb bobs,
lasers, and framing squares.
In all assignments,
carpenters must work quickly, accurately, and
economically.
Requirements:
| Education |
Age |
Length
of Course/
*Annual Class Hrs. |
| High
School/GED |
17 |
4
Years/160 Class Hrs. |
|
For more information, call (574)269-4220
|
-All
apprenticeship programs require applicants to be
physically fit. In addition, applicants must take an
aptitude test and be interviewed by the joint
apprenticeship committee before acceptance.
*Where the apprenticeship program has established a formal
classroom training course, these are required number of
school hours the individual apprentice must attend each
year.
For information on all apprenticeship programs, contact
the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Apprenticeship and
Training, (574)236-8295.
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