Carpenter – Public Works Job Opening

Overview

Position Title: Carpenter

Company: City Of Dopusvi

Location: Saint Thomas, VI, US

Job Description

This is skilled work at the journeyman level involving rough and finished carpentry.
Employees in this class performs skilled hand and bench carpentry duties including the operation of power driven woodworking machinery. Work assignments are received in the form of oral or written instructions, sketches or plans from a carpenter supervisor or administrative official. Supervision may be exercised over one or more unskilled workers and work is checked by a supervisor through inspection during process or upon completion.

Responsibilities:

• Supervises assigned patients, inmates or laborers in carpentry and masonry work.
• Estimates time and material for jobs and orders materials.
• Performs limited cabinetmaker work such as building less complex benches, bookcases, chests, cupboards, lockers and shelves.
• Repair tables, chairs, benches, cupboards, counters and truck beds
• Cleans, sharpens, and repairs hand and bench tools.
• Performs skilled bench work in a carpenter shop operating power saws, joiners, wood lathes, planers; operates boring, sanding and mortising machines.
• Performs general carpentry work in the alteration, repair and maintenance of buildings, floors, roofs, stairways, partitions, doors, windows, screens, scaffolding concrete forms, wood fixtures and furniture.
• Performs light masonry, glazing, painting, roofing and sheet metal work
• Repairs mechanical doors, closers and locks.
• Builds and repairs timber bridges; builds concrete forms, false work and scaffolds; supervises pouring and smoothing of concrete.
• Performs related work as assigned.

Requirements:

• Experience as a journeyman carpenter or completion of an apprenticeship in the trade.
• Graduation from a standard high school.