About this role
Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate.
Work setting: Various locations. Renovation. Residential. Level of expertise: Maintenance and repair.
Tasks
- Prepare estimates of labour and/or material costs.
- Read blueprints, drawings and sketches to determine work requirements.
- Prepare layouts in conformance to building codes, using measuring tools.
- Measure, cut, shape, assemble and join materials made of wood, wood substitutes, lightweight steel and other materials.
- Build foundations, install floor beams, lay subflooring and erect walls and roof systems.
- Fit and install windows, doors, stairs, mouldings and hardware.
- Survey building locations and levels.
- Maintain, repair and renovate residences and wooden structures in mills, mines, hospitals, industrial plants and other establishments.
- Equipment and machinery experience: Hand tools.
- Security and safety: Bondable.
- Work conditions and physical capabilities: Bending, crouching, kneeling.
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking.
- Handling heavy loads.
- Large workload.
- Physically demanding.
- Tight deadlines.
- Work with minimal supervision.
- Personal suitability: Accurate.
- Client focus.
- Efficient interpersonal skills.
- Excellent oral communication.
- Excellent written communication.
- Judgement.
- Reliability.
- Team player.
- Values and ethics.
- Punctuality.
- Screening questions: Do you have experience working in this field?.
- Experience: 3 years to less than 5 years.
- Employment terms options: Day.
Support for persons with disabilities: Applies accessible and inclusive recruitment policies that accommodate persons with disabilities . Support for newcomers and refugees: Supports social and labour market integration of newcomers and/or refugees (for example: facilitating access to community resources, language training, skills training, etc.). Recruits newcomers and/or refugees who were displaced by a conflict or a natural disaster (for example: Ukraine, Afghanistan, etc.) . Supports newcomers and/or refugees with foreign credential recognition. Support for youths: Offers on-the-job training tailored to youth.
Support for Veterans: Offers workshops, counselling services or other resources to help Veterans navigate their transition into the civilian workforce (for example: adapting to different organizational structures) . Support for Indigenous people: Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for Indigenous workers . Support for mature workers: Applies hiring policies that discourage age discrimination . Supports for visible minorities: Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (for example: anonymizing the hiring process, etc.).