A professional who 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. Responsibilities include:

• 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 gauge.
• 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.
• May weld metal parts to steel structural members.
• When specializing in particular phase of carpentry, is designated according to specialty as Combination-window installer; Lay-Out Carpenter.
• When specializing in finish carpentry, such as installing interior and exterior trim, building stairs, and laying hardwood floors, is designated Finish Carpenter.
• When erecting frame buildings and performing general carpentry work in residential construction, is designated House Carpenter.
• May remove and replace sections of structures prior to and after installation of insulating materials and be designated building-insulating carpenter.
• May perform carpentry work in construction of walk-in freezers and environmental test chambers and be designated refrigerator carpenter.
• May be designated: door hanger; finished-hardware erector; garage-door hanger; hardwood-floor installer; jalousie installer; stair builder; trim setter; weather stripper; wood-sash-and-frame carpenter; wood-strip-block floor installer.