Carpenters
A Carpenter builds and repairs wood frameworks or structures for houses and buildings, or builds and installs wood cabinets, furniture or other fixtures. May specialize in residential, commercial or industrial carpentry.
About this Career
Average Salary
£30,135New workers start at around £18,921. Normal pay is £30,135 per year. Highly experienced workers can earn up to £45,969
Annual Openings
2Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons in London, and do not distinguish between full and part-time jobs
Daily Tasks
- Maintains and repairs woodwork and fittings.
- Aligns and fixes prepared wood pieces by screwing, nailing, gluing and dowelling to form decking, small wooden marine craft and their interiors and fittings.
- Selects and measures appropriate wood and cuts, shapes and drills to specification using saws, planes, chisels and other power or hand tools.
- Rivets together metal plates and girders, seals seams, smooths welds, fixes metal doors, collars, portholes, tank and hatch covers.
- Uses machine tools to bend, curve, punch, drill and straighten metal plate as required and positions and aligns metal platework or frame for welding and bolting.
- Uses rules, scribes and punches to mark out metal plate with guidelines and reference points and cuts plates using appropriate tools.
- Examines drawings and specifications to determine job requirements.
Skills Employers are looking for
| Skills | Importance |
|---|---|
| Learning Strategies | 58% |
| Critical Thinking | 52% |
| Mathematics | 48% |
| Reading Comprehension | 46% |
| Writing | 42% |
| Active Listening | 41% |
| Active Learning | 41% |
| Monitoring | 37% |
| Speaking | 37% |
| Science | 33% |