OVERVIEW:

Job Title: Carpenter

Location: Beaufort, South Carolina / Parris Island

Job Type: Full Time

Work Schedule: Monday - Saturday, some Sundays based on project schedule

Performance Evaluated by: Foreman, Superintendent, Project Manager

ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES:

• Cut, fit, and join construction materials.
• Operate power construction equipment.
• Perform basic carpentry
• Plan, lay-out, and use appropriate hand tools and power tools to properly measure, cut, assemble, and install forms, rebar, embeds and anchor bolts.
• Construct built-in-place or prefabricated wooden and metal forms, according to specifications for molding concrete structures.
• Erect built-in-place forms or assemble and install prefabricated forms
• Insert spreaders and tie-rods between opposite pieces to maintain specific dimensions
• Anchor and brace forms to fixed objects using nails, bolts, anchor rods, steel cables, planks, and timber
• Follow jobsite safety regulations and keep your work area safe and clean. Identify all potential safety hazards. Eliminate or minimize all identified hazards.
• Full cooperation with Superintendent, Foreman, and Sub-Contractors
• Finish tasks on time
• Produce high quality work
• Setting of different forms for all aspects of concrete placement
• Follow jobsite safety regulations and keep your work area safe and clean. Identify all potential safety hazards. Eliminate or minimize all identified hazards.

EDUCATION AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS:

• Be able to obtain and maintain security clearance to access the military base
• Rebar experience a plus
• familiar with elevations
• Taking instructions & helpful in giving proper directions to inexperienced crew members
• Experience with heavy equipment is a plus
• Minimum 5 years' experience as a journeyman carpenter
• Proficient at
  • Reading Engineer Rule
  • Reading blueprints
  • Setting forms from cutting fills provided
  • Setting string line for forms and machine control
• Proficient with
  • Sledge Hammers
  • Rock Drills
  • Pin Hammer
  • Pin Puller

COMMUNCIATION SKILLS: Must be able to comprehend safety standards, operating maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Must be able to understand information, ideas, direction and perform the task or project discussed.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• Ability to work overhead
• Ability to use hands to grasp
• Ability to reach with arms
• Ability to move in and around confined and cluttered places and uneven areas
• Ability to repeatedly stoop, kneel, squat, crawl, and twist throughout the workday and week
• Ability to frequently lift and/or push/pull up to 30 pounds up to 50 feet
• Ability to frequently lift up to 30 pounds up to 3 feet off the ground
• Occasionally lift and/or push/pull approximately 112 pounds up to 25 feet
• Occasionally lift approximately 112 lbs. to a surface approximately 12 inches off the ground
• Ability to repeatedly operate a 12lb sledgehammer throughout the entire workday and week
• Ability to climb up to 25feet, step and balance onto scaffolding
• Ability to work up to a 12-hour shift in all weather and temperature extremes
• Vision adequate to perform all tasks

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• Employee will be required to wear personal protective equipment as needed to perform job tasks
• Employee is regularly exposed to noise, dust, and various types of smells
• Employee is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles.
• Employee must be able to properly use and handle toxic or caustic chemicals.
• Employee is regularly exposed to wet, hot, and/or humid conditions, and outside weather conditions
• Employee is expected to work in a safe and efficient manner while maintaining a clean work area
• Employee must be able to work in high precarious places

*** RC will gladly provide a reasonable accommodation to assist Carpenters in performing these essential job functions so long as it does not create an undue burden.

R.C. CONSTRUCTION IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER INCLUDING DISABILITY AND PROTECTED VETERAN STATUS. ALL QUALIFIED APPLICANTS WILL RECEIVE CONSIDERATION FOR EMPLOYMENT WITHOUT REGARD TO RACE, COLOR, RELIGION, SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY, NATIONAL ORIGIN, DISABILITY, OR STATUS AS A PROTECTED VETERAN

This Job Description does not cover all the required duties, activities, skills, functions, responsibilities of the position, and working conditions any of which may change at any time according to the sole and absolute discretion of R.C. Construction Co., Inc., with or without notice.