Address
Form of workJob Expectations and Objectives
Apprentice Carpenter
Personal Appearance and Conduct
- Ensure your own appearance is tidy.
- Conduct a helpful and polite manner with other staff, sub trades and clients.
- Ensure steel capped boots have no steel showing through.
- Ensure no smoking occurs inside any building on Your Forever Home NSW sites.
- No swearing in front of client, Project Managers, Insurers, Architects or Engineers.
Car Ownership and licence
- You are required at all times to hold a current NSW drivers license.
- You are required to have your own transport to carry your tools around.
Staff Work Hours and Breaks
- Start times may vary in accordance with duties involved onsite, general site hours are from 7am to 3.30pm Monday to Friday.
- Take regular rest breaks during the working day.
- Your Forever Home NSW is legally obliged to allow a minimum of one paid 15 minute rest break and one unpaid 30 minute meal break if the work period is eight hours long.
- DO NOT skip breaks in order to leave early as this leads to increased fatigue which creates more hazards.
- Expectation for all Your Forever Home NSW staff to be onsite at least 5-10 minutes before work to prepare.
Tool Requirements
- Hand Tools
* Chisels
* Square
* Roofing Square
* Level
* Tool Belt
* Hammer
* Punches
* String line
* Chalk line
* Ruler
* Spade
* Shovel
* Broom
- Power Tools (to be built up by end of apprenticeship)
* Circular Saw
* Sliding compound mitre saw
*Nail Gun - Gas/Battery Type
* Battery Drill
* Battery Impact Driver
* Electric Planer
- PPE
* Ear Muffs
* Safety Glasses (Your Forever Home NSW to replace as required)
Record Keeping
- Hours kept for each day and including a brief summary of tasks. All to be logged into job management system.
Health and Safety
- Ensure you sign in and out of site each time you arrive or exit site.
- Make sure you are fully aware of emergency assembly points and emergency procedures.
- You will make sure you ask for an induction for each site you work at.
- Correct PPE worn when required, set a good example to all apprentices.
- Assist site managers to identify hazards, mitigate these immediately using the Eliminate, Isolate, Minimise management structure. Assist site managers with writing up all hazards on the hazard board.
- Ensure you are working to a task analysis for the job you are completing.
- Take part in tool box talks weekly, make a point to run these occasionally to support the site manager.
- Fill in the incident/accident register whenever you have an accident or near miss.
- Ensure all power tools you use and your own gear have up to date Tags, 3 monthly.
- Assist site manager in completing the site inspection report occasionally. These can be done by any trained carpenter or apprentice at the site managers discretion.
- Read and understand the Health and Safety Policies and SSSP.
Key Expectations
- Listen carefully and carry out duties given to you by your site Foreman.
- Ask questions for anything you are not sure about.
- Work diligently and courteously to carry out the task.
- Let the site manager know of any materials that are running in short supply so more can be ordered.
- Support the site manager as much as you can.
- When required by your site manager there is an expectation in this company to help out as much as you can, be flexible, work later on occasion as deadlines may need to be met.
- Enrol in your Certificate 3 in Carpentry.
Your Forever Home NSW preferential items to assist you getting pay rises, (courses done at your own cost):
- Assist site managers in meeting deadlines, work hard.
- Read all your theory notes, complete all worksheet exercises.
- Ask “what can I do to be more involved with Health and Safety” and get delegated some responsibility.
- Be solutions focused – proactive not reactive.
- Obtain some higher level ‘Site Safe’ training, supervisor courses.
- Read more books with any aspect helpful to construction and people management:
* Leadership
* Construction Techniques
If interested please email through resume to: ***************@outlook.com
