Helpers--Carpenter Help carpenters by performing duties requiring less skill. Duties include using, supplying, or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment.
Helpers--Carpenter is Also Know as
In different settings, Helpers--Carpenter is titled as
- Carpenter Assistant
- Carpenter Helper
- Carpenter's Helper
Education and Training of Helpers--Carpenter
Helpers--Carpenter is categorized in Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed
Experience Required for Helpers--Carpenter
Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is usually needed. For example, a teller would benefit from experience working directly with the public.
Education Required for Helpers--Carpenter
These occupations usually require a high school diploma.
Degrees Related to Helpers--Carpenter
Training Required for Helpers--Carpenter
Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few months to one year of working with experienced employees. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
Related Ocuupations
Some Ocuupations related to Helpers--Carpenter in different industries are
- Helpers--Brickmasons, Blockmasons, Stonemasons, and Tile and Marble Setters
- Helpers--Pipelayers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters
- Helpers--Painters, Paperhangers, Plasterers, and Stucco Masons
- Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers
- Helpers--Electricians
- Helpers--Extraction Workers
- Carpenters
- Helpers--Production Workers
- Helpers--Roofers
- Structural Iron and Steel Workers
- Cabinetmakers and Bench Carpenters
- Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters
- Plasterers and Stucco Masons
- Brickmasons and Blockmasons
- Boilermakers
- Terrazzo Workers and Finishers
- Drywall and Ceiling Tile Installers
- Layout Workers, Metal and Plastic
- Reinforcing Iron and Rebar Workers
- Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers
What Do Helpers--Carpenter do?
- Position and hold timbers, lumber, or paneling in place for fastening or cutting.
- Erect scaffolding, shoring, or braces.
- Select tools, equipment, or materials from storage and transport items to work site.
- Fasten timbers or lumber with glue, screws, pegs, or nails and install hardware.
- Clean work areas, machines, or equipment, to maintain a clean and safe job site.
- Hold plumb bobs, sighting rods, or other equipment to aid in establishing reference points and lines.
- Align, straighten, plumb, or square forms for installation.
- Smooth or sand surfaces to remove ridges, tool marks, glue, or caulking.
- Perform tie spacing layout and measure, mark, drill or cut.
- Secure stakes to grids for constructions of footings, nail scabs to footing forms, and vibrate and float concrete.
- Construct forms and assist in raising them to the required elevation.
- Install handrails under the direction of a carpenter.
- Glue and clamp edges or joints of assembled parts.
- Cut and install insulating or sound-absorbing material.
- Cut tile or linoleum to fit and spread adhesives on flooring for installation.
- Cover surfaces with laminated plastic covering material.
- Drill holes in timbers or lumber.
- Cut timbers, lumber, or paneling to specified dimensions.
Qualities of Good Helpers--Carpenter
- Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Manual Dexterity: The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
- Arm-Hand Steadiness: The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
- Extent Flexibility: The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
- Static Strength: The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
- Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
- Multilimb Coordination: The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.
- Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Trunk Strength: The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing.
- Reaction Time: The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
- Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Control Precision: The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
- Finger Dexterity: The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
- Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
- Visualization: The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
- Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Depth Perception: The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.
- Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
- Information Ordering: The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Far Vision: The ability to see details at a distance.
- Dynamic Strength: The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
- Auditory Attention: The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
- Stamina: The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.
- Hearing Sensitivity: The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
- Gross Body Coordination: The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.
- Gross Body Equilibrium: The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.
- Rate Control: The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene.
- Originality: The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
- Visual Color Discrimination: The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
- Speed of Limb Movement: The ability to quickly move the arms and legs.
- Number Facility: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
- Time Sharing: The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources).
- Perceptual Speed: The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
- Flexibility of Closure: The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
- Response Orientation: The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part.
- Fluency of Ideas: The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
- Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
- Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Spatial Orientation: The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you.
- Memorization: The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
- Mathematical Reasoning: The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
- Explosive Strength: The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object.
- Wrist-Finger Speed: The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
- Speed of Closure: The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
- Night Vision: The ability to see under low-light conditions.
- Peripheral Vision: The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead.
- Glare Sensitivity: The ability to see objects in the presence of a glare or bright lighting.
- Sound Localization: The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated.
- Dynamic Flexibility: The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs.
Tools Used by Helpers--Carpenter
- Adjustable wrenches
- Air compressors
- Block planes
- Braces and bits
- Brooms
- Carpenters' chisels
- Carpenters' levels
- Caulking guns
- Chalk lines
- Circular saws
- Claw hammers
- Combination squares
- Concrete floats
- Concrete vibrators
- Dial calipers
- Drywall knives
- Framing squares
- Hand clamps
- Hand saws
- Ladders
- Layout squares
- Marking gauges
- Measuring tapes
- Miter saws
- Mitre boxes
- Notebook computers
- Personal computers
- Phillips head screwdrivers
- Picks
- Plumb bobs
- Power drills
- Power grinders
- Power sanders
- Power screwguns
- Precision levels
- Protective ear plugs
- Random orbital sanders
- Respirators
- Scaffolding
- Shovels
- Sledgehammers
- Socket wrenches
- Straight screwdrivers
- Table saws
- Utility knives
- Wood files
Technology Skills required for Helpers--Carpenter
- Bosch Punch List
- Cost estimating software
- Craftsman CD Estimator
- Drawing and drafting software
- Intuit QuickBooks
- Job costing software
- Linux
- Microsoft Access
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office software
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft SharePoint
- Microsoft Windows
- Microsoft Word
- Oracle Database
- Quicken
- Salesforce software
- SAP software
- Turtle Creek Software Goldenseal
- UNIX
- Word processing software