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Carpenters

Construct, erect, install, or repair structures and fixtures made of wood and comparable materials, such as concrete forms; building frameworks, including partitions, joists, studding, and rafters; and wood stairways, window and door frames, and hardwood floors. May also install cabinets, siding, drywall, and batt or roll insulation. Includes brattice builders who build doors or brattices (ventilation walls or partitions) in underground passageways.

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  • Skills
  • WorkKeys®
  • Abilities
  • Knowledge
  • Career Video
  • Pay
  • Ohio Employment Trends
  • Typical Education
  • Personality
  • Tools
  • Technology
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  • Install structures or fixtures, such as windows, frames, floorings, trim, or hardware, using carpenters' hand or power tools.
  • Select and order lumber or other required materials.
  • Remove damaged or defective parts or sections of structures and repair or replace, using hand tools.
  • Examine structural timbers and supports to detect decay, and replace timbers as required, using hand tools, nuts, and bolts.
  • Measure and mark cutting lines on materials, using a ruler, pencil, chalk, and marking gauge.
  • Anchor and brace forms and other structures in place, using nails, bolts, anchor rods, steel cables, planks, wedges, and timbers.
  • Install rough door and window frames, subflooring, fixtures, or temporary supports in structures undergoing construction or repair.
  • Perform minor plumbing, welding, or concrete mixing work.
  • Follow established safety rules and regulations and maintain a safe and clean environment.
  • Construct forms or chutes for pouring concrete.
  • Shape or cut materials to specified measurements, using hand tools, machines, or power saws.
  • Install structures or fixtures, such as windows, frames, floorings, trim, or hardware, using carpenters' hand or power tools.
  • Finish surfaces of woodwork or wallboard in houses or buildings, using paint, hand tools, or paneling.
  • Build sleds from logs and timbers for use in hauling camp buildings and machinery through wooded areas.
  • Build or repair cabinets, doors, frameworks, floors, or other wooden fixtures used in buildings, using woodworking machines, carpenter's hand tools, or power tools.
  • Perform minor plumbing, welding, or concrete mixing work.
  • Dig or direct digging of post holes and set poles to support structures.
  • Inspect ceiling or floor tile, wall coverings, siding, glass, or woodwork to detect broken or damaged structures.
  • Bore boltholes in timber, masonry or concrete walls, using power drill.
  • Work with or remove hazardous material.
  • Dig or direct digging of post holes and set poles to support structures.
  • Fill cracks or other defects in plaster or plasterboard and sand patch, using patching plaster, trowel, and sanding tool.
  • Apply shock-absorbing, sound-deadening, or decorative paneling to ceilings or walls.
  • Construct forms or chutes for pouring concrete.
  • Prepare cost estimates for clients or employers.
  • Maintain job records and schedule work crew.
  • Examine structural timbers and supports to detect decay, and replace timbers as required, using hand tools, nuts, and bolts.
  • Dig or direct digging of post holes and set poles to support structures.
  • Study specifications in blueprints, sketches, or building plans to prepare project layout and determine dimensions and materials required.
  • Maintain records, document actions, and present written progress reports.
  • Select and order lumber or other required materials.
  • Assemble and fasten materials to make frameworks or props, using hand tools and wood screws, nails, dowel pins, or glue.
  • Install rough door and window frames, subflooring, fixtures, or temporary supports in structures undergoing construction or repair.
  • Measure and mark cutting lines on materials, using a ruler, pencil, chalk, and marking gauge.
  • Install structures or fixtures, such as windows, frames, floorings, trim, or hardware, using carpenters' hand or power tools.
  • Install rough door and window frames, subflooring, fixtures, or temporary supports in structures undergoing construction or repair.
  • Arrange for subcontractors to deal with special areas, such as heating or electrical wiring work.
  • Verify trueness of structure, using plumb bob and level.
  • Cover subfloors with building paper to keep out moisture and lay hardwood, parquet, or wood-strip-block floors by nailing floors to subfloor or cementing them to mastic or asphalt base.
  • Erect scaffolding or ladders for assembling structures above ground level.

Work Activities

Work Activities

  • Install structures or fixtures, such as windows, frames, floorings, trim, or hardware, using carpenters' hand or power tools.
  • Select and order lumber or other required materials.
  • Remove damaged or defective parts or sections of structures and repair or replace, using hand tools.
  • Examine structural timbers and supports to detect decay, and replace timbers as required, using hand tools, nuts, and bolts.
  • Measure and mark cutting lines on materials, using a ruler, pencil, chalk, and marking gauge.
  • Anchor and brace forms and other structures in place, using nails, bolts, anchor rods, steel cables, planks, wedges, and timbers.
  • Install rough door and window frames, subflooring, fixtures, or temporary supports in structures undergoing construction or repair.
  • Perform minor plumbing, welding, or concrete mixing work.
  • Follow established safety rules and regulations and maintain a safe and clean environment.
  • Construct forms or chutes for pouring concrete.
  • Shape or cut materials to specified measurements, using hand tools, machines, or power saws.
  • Install structures or fixtures, such as windows, frames, floorings, trim, or hardware, using carpenters' hand or power tools.
  • Finish surfaces of woodwork or wallboard in houses or buildings, using paint, hand tools, or paneling.
  • Build sleds from logs and timbers for use in hauling camp buildings and machinery through wooded areas.
  • Build or repair cabinets, doors, frameworks, floors, or other wooden fixtures used in buildings, using woodworking machines, carpenter's hand tools, or power tools.
  • Perform minor plumbing, welding, or concrete mixing work.
  • Dig or direct digging of post holes and set poles to support structures.
  • Inspect ceiling or floor tile, wall coverings, siding, glass, or woodwork to detect broken or damaged structures.
  • Bore boltholes in timber, masonry or concrete walls, using power drill.
  • Work with or remove hazardous material.
  • Dig or direct digging of post holes and set poles to support structures.
  • Fill cracks or other defects in plaster or plasterboard and sand patch, using patching plaster, trowel, and sanding tool.
  • Apply shock-absorbing, sound-deadening, or decorative paneling to ceilings or walls.
  • Construct forms or chutes for pouring concrete.
  • Prepare cost estimates for clients or employers.
  • Maintain job records and schedule work crew.
  • Examine structural timbers and supports to detect decay, and replace timbers as required, using hand tools, nuts, and bolts.
  • Dig or direct digging of post holes and set poles to support structures.
  • Study specifications in blueprints, sketches, or building plans to prepare project layout and determine dimensions and materials required.
  • Maintain records, document actions, and present written progress reports.
  • Select and order lumber or other required materials.
  • Assemble and fasten materials to make frameworks or props, using hand tools and wood screws, nails, dowel pins, or glue.
  • Install rough door and window frames, subflooring, fixtures, or temporary supports in structures undergoing construction or repair.
  • Measure and mark cutting lines on materials, using a ruler, pencil, chalk, and marking gauge.
  • Install structures or fixtures, such as windows, frames, floorings, trim, or hardware, using carpenters' hand or power tools.
  • Install rough door and window frames, subflooring, fixtures, or temporary supports in structures undergoing construction or repair.
  • Arrange for subcontractors to deal with special areas, such as heating or electrical wiring work.
  • Verify trueness of structure, using plumb bob and level.
  • Cover subfloors with building paper to keep out moisture and lay hardwood, parquet, or wood-strip-block floors by nailing floors to subfloor or cementing them to mastic or asphalt base.
  • Erect scaffolding or ladders for assembling structures above ground level.

Skills

  • Coordination

    Changing what is done based on other people's actions.

  • Persuasion

    Talking people into changing their minds or their behavior.

  • Negotiation

    Bringing people together to solve differences.

  • Troubleshooting

    Figuring out what is causing equipment, machines, wiring, or computer programs to not work.

  • Active Listening

    Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.

  • Management of Personnel Resources

    Selecting and managing the best workers for a job.

  • Judgment and Decision Making

    Thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one.

  • Learning Strategies

    Using the best training or teaching strategies for learning new things.

  • Science

    Using scientific rules and strategies to solve problems.

  • Monitoring

    Keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements.

  • Service Orientation

    Looking for ways to help people.

  • Complex Problem Solving

    Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.

  • Equipment Maintenance

    Planning and doing the basic maintenance on equipment.

  • Quality Control Analysis

    Testing how well a product or service works.

  • Active Learning

    Figuring out how to use new ideas or things.

  • Systems Analysis

    Figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it.

  • Equipment Selection

    Deciding what kind of tools and equipment are needed to do a job.

  • Repairing

    Repairing machines or systems using the right tools.

  • Management of Financial Resources

    Making spending decisions and keeping track of what is spent.

  • Operations Analysis

    Figuring out what a product or service needs to be able to do.

  • Mathematics

    Using math to solve problems.

  • Critical Thinking

    Thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem.

  • Social Perceptiveness

    Understanding people's reactions.

  • Technology Design

    Making equipment and technology useful for customers.

  • Systems Evaluation

    Measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it.

  • Instructing

    Teaching people how to do something.

  • Installation

    Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or computer programs.

  • Programming

    Writing computer programs.

  • Operations Monitoring

    Watching gauges, dials, or display screens to make sure a machine is working.

  • Operation and Control

    Using equipment or systems.

  • Speaking

    Talking to others.

  • Time Management

    Managing your time and the time of other people.

  • Management of Material Resources

    Managing equipment and materials.

  • Writing

    Writing things for co-workers or customers.

  • Reading Comprehension

    Reading work-related information.

WorkKeys®

Applied Math
5
Workplace Documents
4
Graphic Literacy
5

Abilities

  • Sound Localization

    Noticing the direction that a sound came from.

  • Fluency of Ideas

    Coming up with lots of ideas.

  • Inductive Reasoning

    Making general rules or coming up with answers from lots of detailed information.

  • Deductive Reasoning

    Using rules to solve problems.

  • Perceptual Speed

    Quickly comparing groups of letters, numbers, pictures, or other things.

  • Time Sharing

    Doing two or more things at the same time.

  • Rate Control

    Changing when and how fast you move based on how something else is moving.

  • Trunk Strength

    Using your lower back and stomach.

  • Selective Attention

    Paying attention to something without being distracted.

  • Wrist-Finger Speed

    Making fast, simple, repeated movements of your fingers, hands, and wrists.

  • Arm-Hand Steadiness

    Keeping your arm or hand steady.

  • Gross Body Equilibrium

    Keeping your balance or staying upright.

  • Glare Sensitivity

    Seeing something even if there is a glare or very bright light.

  • Night Vision

    Seeing at night or under low light.

  • Extent Flexibility

    Bending, stretching, twisting, or reaching with your body, arms, and/or legs.

  • Far Vision

    Seeing details that are far away.

  • Hearing Sensitivity

    Telling the difference between sounds.

  • Visual Color Discrimination

    Noticing the difference between colors, including shades and brightness.

  • Auditory Attention

    Paying attention to one sound while there are other distracting sounds.

  • Peripheral Vision

    Seeing something to your side when your are looking ahead.

  • Originality

    Creating new and original ideas.

  • Oral Expression

    Communicating by speaking.

  • Memorization

    Remembering words, numbers, pictures, or steps.

  • Speech Recognition

    Recognizing spoken words.

  • Dynamic Flexibility

    Quickly and repeatedly bending, stretching, twisting, or reaching out with your body, arms, and/or legs.

  • Problem Sensitivity

    Noticing when problems happen.

  • Finger Dexterity

    Putting together small parts with your fingers.

  • Control Precision

    Quickly changing the controls of a machine, car, truck or boat.

  • Spatial Orientation

    Knowing where things are around you.

  • Information Ordering

    Ordering or arranging things.

  • Manual Dexterity

    Holding or moving items with your hands.

  • Reaction Time

    Quickly moving your hand, finger, or foot based on a sound, light, picture or other command.

  • Stamina

    Exercising for a long time without getting out of breath.

  • Response Orientation

    Quickly deciding if you should move your hand, foot, or other body part.

  • Near Vision

    Seeing details up close.

  • Gross Body Coordination

    Moving your arms, legs, and mid-section together while your whole body is moving.

  • Speed of Closure

    Quickly knowing what you are looking at.

  • Number Facility

    Adding, subtracting, multiplying, or dividing.

  • Visualization

    Imagining how something will look after it is moved around or changed.

  • Category Flexibility

    Grouping things in different ways.

  • Speech Clarity

    Speaking clearly.

  • Depth Perception

    Deciding which thing is closer or farther away from you, or deciding how far away it is from you.

  • Dynamic Strength

    Exercising for a long time without your muscles getting tired.

  • Oral Comprehension

    Listening and understanding what people say.

  • Written Comprehension

    Reading and understanding what is written.

  • Written Expression

    Communicating by writing.

  • Mathematical Reasoning

    Choosing the right type of math to solve a problem.

  • Flexibility of Closure

    Seeing hidden patterns.

  • Explosive Strength

    Jumping, sprinting, or throwing something.

  • Speed of Limb Movement

    Quickly moving your arms and legs.

  • Static Strength

    Lifting, pushing, pulling, or carrying.

  • Multilimb Coordination

    Using your arms and/or legs together while sitting, standing, or lying down.

Knowledge

  • Sales and Marketing

    Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.

  • Food Production

    Knowledge of techniques and equipment for planting, growing, and harvesting food products (both plant and animal) for consumption, including storage/handling techniques.

  • English Language

    Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.

  • 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.

  • Personnel and Human Resources

    Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.

  • Law and Government

    Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.

  • 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.

  • Psychology

    Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.

  • Fine Arts

    Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture.

  • Computers and Electronics

    Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.

  • Foreign Language

    Knowledge of the structure and content of a foreign (non-English) language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition and grammar, and pronunciation.

  • Sociology and Anthropology

    Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures, and their history and origins.

  • History and Archeology

    Knowledge of historical events and their causes, indicators, and effects on civilizations and cultures.

  • Design

    Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.

  • Administrative

    Knowledge of administrative and office procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and workplace terminology.

  • Production and Processing

    Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.

  • 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.

  • Telecommunications

    Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.

  • Mechanical

    Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.

  • 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.

  • Economics and Accounting

    Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data.

  • Mathematics

    Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.

  • Transportation

    Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits.

  • Biology

    Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.

  • 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.

  • Philosophy and Theology

    Knowledge of different philosophical systems and religions. This includes their basic principles, values, ethics, ways of thinking, customs, practices, and their impact on human culture.

  • 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.

  • Geography

    Knowledge of principles and methods for describing the features of land, sea, and air masses, including their physical characteristics, locations, interrelationships, and distribution of plant, animal, and human life.

  • Physics

    Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub-atomic structures and processes.

  • Chemistry

    Knowledge of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods.

  • Medicine and Dentistry

    Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.

  • Communications and Media

    Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.

  • Therapy and Counseling

    Knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions, and for career counseling and guidance.

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Pay

  • Typical Salary
  • $77,420
    $58,310
    $42,190
    Ohio
    US
    $98,370
    $59,310
    $38,760
  • Typical Hourly Wage
  • $37
    $28
    $20
    Ohio
    US
    $47
    $29
    $19

Ohio Employment Trends

  • Currently Employed 23,080
  • Yearly Projected Openings 1900

Typical Education

Personality

Realistic: People interested in this work like activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions.They do well at jobs that need:
  • Attention to Detail
  • Dependability
  • Cooperation
  • Initiative
  • Achievement/Effort
  • Adaptability/Flexibility

Tools

  • Air compressors
  • Alignment jig
  • Bandsaw wheel
  • Belt sander
  • Bevels
  • Biscuit jointers
  • Calipers
  • Caulking guns
  • Cheesegrater file
  • Compasses
  • Conventional truck cranes
  • Drilling machines
  • Drum sander
  • Feeder jig
  • Forklifts
  • Gas generators
  • Guide jig
  • Hammer drills
  • Hammers
  • Hard hats
  • Impact wrenches
  • Jacks
  • Ladders
  • Laser measuring systems
  • Level sensors or transmitters
  • Levels
  • Metal markers or holders
  • Moisture meters
  • Needlenose pliers
  • Notebook computers
  • Personal computers
  • Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers
  • Planes
  • Plumb bobs
  • Pneumatic nail drivers
  • Pocket calculator
  • Power drills
  • Power grinders
  • Power nail guns
  • Power planes
  • Power routers
  • Power sanders
  • Power saws
  • Power staple guns
  • Protractors
  • Pry bars
  • Pullers
  • Respirators
  • Rulers
  • Safety boots
  • Safety harnesses or belts
  • Saw blades
  • Saw guide
  • Sawing machines
  • Saws
  • Scaffolding
  • Scaffolding stabilizers
  • Screwdrivers
  • Sledge hammer
  • Squares
  • Staple guns
  • Tape measures
  • Templates
  • Theodolites
  • Tinners snips
  • Triangles
  • Utility knives
  • Wood auger bit
  • Wood chisels

Technology

  • Accounting software
  • Computer aided design CAD software
  • Information retrieval or search software
  • Internet browser software
  • Office suite software
  • Operating system software
  • Project management software
  • Spreadsheet software
  • Web page creation and editing software
  • Word processing software

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  • InDemand occupations are considered a priority by the state of Ohio.
  • Apprenticeships are available for this occupation. These programs can help you get hands-on experience and build your skills.
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