Carpenter - Rail

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General Summary

This position is based out of West Glacier, Montana

Constructs, erects, installs, and repairs structures and fixtures of wood, plywood, and wallboard, using carpenter's handtools and power tools, and conforming to local building codes.

Essential Job Accountabilities

• Studies blueprints, sketches, or building plans for information pertaining to type of material required, such as lumber or fiberboard, and dimensions of structure or fixture to be fabricated.
• Selects specified type of lumber or other materials.
• Prepares layout, using rule, framing square, and calipers.
• Marks cutting and assembly lines on materials, using pencil, chalk, and marking gage.
• Shapes materials to prescribed measurements, using saws, chisels, and planes.
• Assembles cut and shaped materials and fastens them together with nails, dowel pins, or glue.
• Verifies trueness of structure with plumb bob and carpenter's level. Erects framework for structures and lays subflooring.

Builds stairs and lays out and installs partitions and cabinet work.

• Covers subfloor with building paper to keep out moisture and lays hardwood, parquet, and wood-strip-block floors by nailing floors to subfloor or cementing them to mastic or asphalt base.
• Applies shock-absorbing, sound-deadening, and decorative paneling to ceilings and walls.
• Fits and installs prefabricated window frames, doors, doorframes, weather stripping, interior and exterior trim, and finish hardware, such as locks, letterdrops, and kick plates.
• Constructs forms and chutes for pouring concrete.
• Erects scaffolding and ladders for assembling structures above ground level.

Education

High School Diploma, GED or equivalent years of experience

Work Experience

Appropriate training and experience required

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Workers should be able to :

• Work within precise limits or standards of accuracy
• Apply shop mathematics to solve problems
• Plan work and select proper tools
• Compare and see differences in the size, shape, and form of lines, figures, and objects
• Picture solid objects from drawings or diagrams
• Perform a variety of duties which may change often; and rate information using standards that can be measured or checked.
• Formwork for flatwork concrete
• Basis construction layout
• Flatwork concrete finishing
• Tying rebar, sized up to #6
• Installing underground piping

Physically, workers must be able to :

• Climb and maintain balance on scaffolds and ladders
• Reach for, handle, and manipulate objects and materials
• Lift and carry objects weighing up to 100 pounds
• Stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl, and see well (either naturally or with correction).

About Granite Construction Incorporated

Granite Construction Incorporated is a member of the S&P 400 Index and is the parent company of Granite Construction Company, one of the nation's largest heavy civil contractors and construction materials producers.

Granite Construction is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans, Individuals with Disabilities and a Drug-Free Workplace.

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Notice to Staffing Agencies

Granite Construction, Inc. and its subsidiaries ("Granite") will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate.

Any unsolicited resumes sent to Granite, including unsolicited resumes sent to a Granite mailing address, fax machine or email address, directly to Granite employees, or to Granite's resume database will be considered Granite property.

Granite will NOT pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume. Granite will consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume to have been referred by the Agency free of any charges or fees.

Agencies must obtain advance written approval from Granite's recruiting function to submit resumes, and then only in conjunction with a valid fully-executed contract for service and in response to a specific job opening.

Granite will not pay a fee to any Agency that does not have such agreement in place. Agency agreements will only be valid if in writing and signed by Granite's Human Resources Representative or his / her designee.

No other Granite employee is authorized to bind Granite to any agreement regarding the placement of candidates by Agencies.