Carpenter

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Constructs, erects, and installs forms for new structures and repairs of existing structures using carpenter’s hand tools and power tools.
• Studies blueprints, sketches or plans for information pertaining to type of form work requires, such as lumber or steel forms and dimensions of structure or fixture to be
• Selects specified type of lumber or other
• Prepares layout, using measuring device, framing, squaring and
• Marks cutting and assembly lines on materials, using pencil, chalk and marking
• Shapes materials to prescribed measurements using saws, chisels and
• Assembles cuts and shaped material and fastens them together with nails, dowel pins or bolts and nuts; verifies trueness of forms with plumb bob and carpenter’s level.
• Constructs forms and chutes for pouring
• Erects scaffolding and ladders for assembling above from work ground
• May weld metal parts to steel structural
• Follows safety regulations and
• Performs other duties as

Minimum Requirements

• Workers should be able to: work within precise standards of accuracy, rate information using standards which can be measured or checked;
• Compare and see differences in the size, shape and form of lines, figures and
• Looks at flat drawings or pictures and understand how they would look as solid objects and follow oral and written directions, plans and blueprints.
• Excellent verbal
• Able to prioritize multiple tasks and work in a fast-paced
• Ability to work well with minimal direct

Physical Demands and Work Environment

• Physically, workers must be able to: see well (either naturally or with correction);
• Coordinated the movements of eyes, hands and
• Activities requiring handling and grasping with the hands when performing repairs or maintenance of equipment by utilizing hand tools, power tools, air tools, nuts, bolts, electronic controls, and other small parts.
• Use hands, arms and fingers fully;
• Climb and maintain balance on ladders and scaffolding;
• Ability to stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl or work at heights as
• Frequent lifting up to 25 , occasional lifting up to 50 lbs., and infrequent lifting up to 100 lbs.

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• Ability to bend, kneel and work with arms raised for prolonged periods of
• Exposure to bright lights, extreme temperatures, loud noise, dust, gas and/or fumes
• Exposure to construction sites

Education, Experience and Required Skills, Including Certificates, Licenses and Registrations

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Three years’ experience in the construction

About us

Balfour Beatty US is an industry-leading provider of general contracting, at-risk construction management and design-build services for public and private sector clients across the nation. Performing heavy civil and vertical construction, our teams build the unique structures and infrastructure that play an important role in how people live, work, learn and play in our communities. Our teammates have an instinctive passion for innovating that is fueled by a relentless curiosity, a drive to employ lean practices and processes and the determination to find a better way. Through Zero Harm®, we are challenging the construction industry’s assumptions about safety. We believe that no level of harm should come to anyone as a result of our business.

Consistently ranked among the nation’s largest building contractors by Engineering News-Record, our US business is a subsidiary of London-based Balfour Beatty plc (LSE: BBY).

Balfour Beatty is an equal opportunity employer that recognizes the value of a diverse workforce. All qualified individuals will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other criteria protected by federal, state or local law.