Carpenter

Carpenter Job description

Overview

Fitzgerald’s Heavy Timber Construction Inc. (FHTC) is looking for carpenters with a long-term interest in a construction career and dedication to learning (and teaching) a trade.

Company Overview

FHTC is a timber construction & building restoration firm based in Thurmont, MD. Our core business is the restoration and new construction of structural landmarks, utilizing traditional techniques and solutions in heavy timber framing. We are in this business to provide fair and equitable returns to our employees, customers, company, stakeholders, and suppliers, while contributing to the education and training of the communities in which we live and work.

Our portfolio of projects includes converting barns into homes, wood shops, schools, and public assembly and retail spaces. We also custom design and build new timber frame structures of all types including fully finished homes. We have restored and replaced damaged Covered Bridges, pavilions and roof trusses. We have also replaced many roofs with double locking standing seam metal roofing and repaired or replaced wood and slate shingles. Please visit the FHTC website: www.heavytimber.net for more examples of our projects.

“Quality construction and preservation that spans generations.” (dcf)

Job description

The Carpenter reports directly to the Project Foreman and provides functional guidance to other crew members when necessary. All of our team members are expected to learn more about their trades as they work, therefore FHTC offers a training program and continuing education benefits to all employees. We also expect our carpenters to be teachers for the Apprentices within our team. The incumbent is responsible for independent carpentry duties ranging from rigging, framing, flooring, siding, sheathing, traditional timber framing joinery, and trim carpentry.

This position has good advancement opportunities depending on your commitment to learning and meeting all position duties.

Fundamental Job Duties

• Measure and cut joinery such as mortise and tenon, shiplap joints and keyways per project drawings.
• Erect framework for structures and lay sub-flooring.
• Assist with building and installing stairs and partition walls.
• Assist with the application of roofing and gutters.
• Fit and install prefabricated window frames, doors, door frames, weather stripping, interior and exterior trim, and finish hardware, such as locks, letter drops and kick plates.
• Assist the sawyer at the sawmill.
• Assist with the assembly of cut and finished timber frame components.
• Use pneumatic power equipment, power tools, saws, grinders, and hand tools.
• Erect scaffolding, shoring, braces, install ladders, trestles, handrails, decks, platforms, and gangways.
• Keep job site clean and pick up/discard scrap and debris at the end of each workday.
• Assist other crew members with overall heavy timber construction.
• Follow safety rules, job site safety plans and wear required personal protective equipment (PPE).
• Operate skid-loaders and other power equipment on the job sites.

Prerequisites

• 3 years of construction carpentry experience (heavy timber framing experience preferred but not required).
• An understanding of construction site operations and general workflow.
• Experience with various hand and power tools.
• GED or high school graduation preferred but not required.
• Pre-employment, post-accident, and random drug screening for a drug free workplace
• Able to safely lift 70 or more pounds and participate in site clean-up.
• Although the individual seldom communicates directly with customer/client, they must display positive communication skills at all levels of the organization and external sources, i.e., co-workers, sub-contractors, inspectors, and customers.
• Will be required to own a set of personal carpentry/work tools and PPE.
• Specialized tools will be provided.

FHTC is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Hiring Process

1. Apply via our web site, www.heavytimber.net, submit your resume’ and find the employment application there.

2. We will reach out to you via e-mail expressing our interest in a phone interview or declining within two weeks

3. If both parties want to proceed after a phone interview, we will set up a face-to-face interview with company representatives.

4. Within a week from our face-to-face interview, we will contact you with our decision.

5. Upon acceptance we will onboard you and give you a company orientation.

Benefits

• Pay is bi-weekly.
• Paid time off.
• Paid holidays.
• Professional development assistance / tuition reimbursement.
• Ongoing review and evaluation system to ensure growth and advancement.
• Constantly evolving training programs suited to each employee’s needs & goals.
• Typically, forty hours per week, 5 days at 8 hours each is usual. Overtime is occasionally available to carpenters.