Carpenter Master

About the position

The Carpenter Master position at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette involves performing advanced carpentry work, overseeing subordinate craftsmen, and ensuring high-quality construction and repair of wooden items and structures. This role requires a high degree of precision and the ability to lead a small team in various carpentry projects.

Responsibilities

• Repairs all types of furniture and wooden items.
• Builds high quality bookcases, tables, lockers, cabinets, museum cases and fixtures.
• Sands, finishes, refinishes, varnishes and stains furniture and other finished articles of wood.
• Measures and precisely cuts a variety of artificial mate rails such as plastic, particle-board, formica, etc.
• Canes and upholsters furniture.
• Makes knives to produce special moldings and operates a planer, shaper, jointer, work lathe, drill press, mortising, boring, tenoning machines, jig saws, rip saws and cut-off saws.
• Installs and fits fine trim work around lights, electrical fixtures, doors, windows and other outlets.
• Estimates time and material for carpentry projects.
• Inspects and approves work of contractual employees.
• Lays out, surveys and constructs all manner of detailed carpentry projects from shop drawings or blueprints.
• Installs and repairs locks.
• Finishes high grade carpentry projects.
• Mortises doors and other construction related detailed work.
• Lays out and installs floor tile including resilient tile.
• Estimates supplies needed for completion of specified projects.
• Provides guidance for subordinate Carpenters and trades personnel as needed.
• Keeps records as required by supervisory personnel.
• Oversees apprentice training.
• Performs other duties as needed to ensure the smooth flow of work within the job unit.

Requirements

• Three years of experience in the carpentry trade.
• Training in the carpentry trade may substitute for a maximum of two years of the required experience on a month for month basis.