2012/2013 Competency-Based Task/Competency List for Carpentry II (8602/36 weeks, 280 hours)

Demonstrating Workplace Readiness Skills: Personal Qualities and People Skills

1. Demonstrate positive work ethic.
2. Demonstrate integrity.
3. Demonstrate teamwork skills.
4. Demonstrate self-representation skills.
5. Demonstrate diversity awareness.
6. Demonstrate conflict-resolution skills.
7. Demonstrate creativity and resourcefulness.

Demonstrating Workplace Readiness Skills: Professional Knowledge and Skills

1. Demonstrate effective speaking and listening skills.
2. Demonstrate effective reading and writing skills.
3. Demonstrate critical-thinking and problem-solving skills.
4. Demonstrate healthy behaviors and safety skills.
5. Demonstrate an understanding of workplace organizations, systems, and climates.
6. Demonstrate lifelong-learning skills.
7. Demonstrate job-acquisition and advancement skills.
8. Demonstrate time-, task-, and resource-management skills.
9. Demonstrate job-specific mathematics skills.
10. Demonstrate customer-service skills.

Demonstrating Workplace Readiness Skills: Technology Knowledge and Skills

1. Demonstrate proficiency with technologies common to a specific occupation.
2. Demonstrate information technology skills.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of Internet use and security issues.
4. Demonstrate telecommunications skills.

Examining All Aspects of an Industry

1. Examine aspects of planning within an industry/organization.
2. Examine aspects of management within an industry/organization.
3. Examine aspects of financial responsibility within an industry/organization.
4. Examine technical and production skills required of workers within an industry/organization.
5. Examine principles of technology that underlie an industry/organization.
6. Examine labor issues related to an industry/organization.
7. Examine community issues related to an industry/organization.
8. Examine health, safety, and environmental issues related to an industry/organization.

Addressing Elements of Student Life

1. Identify the purposes and goals of the student organization.
2. Explain the benefits and responsibilities of membership in the student organization as a student and in professional/civic organizations as an adult.
3. Demonstrate leadership skills through participation in student organization activities, such as meetings, programs, and projects.
4. Identify Internet safety issues and procedures for complying with acceptable use standards.

Applying Basic Construction Safety Standards (Core Safety)

1. Comply with federal, state, and local safety legal requirements, including OSHA, VOSHA, and EPA.
2. Identify PPE (personal protective equipment) requirements.
3. Inspect and maintain a safe working environment.
4. Explain safe working practices around electrical hazards.
5. Identify emergency first aid procedures.
6. Identify the types of fires and the methods used to extinguish them.
7. Inspect course-specific hand and power tools to visually identify defects.
8. Demonstrate lifting and carrying techniques.
9. Demonstrate safe laddering techniques.
10. Demonstrate safe scaffolding techniques.
11. Report injuries.
12. Report personal, environmental, and equipment safety violations to the appropriate authority.
13. Earn the OSHA 10 card.
14. Pass safety exam.

Introducing Construction Math

1. Add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions.
2. Add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimals, with and without a calculator.
3. Convert decimals to percents and percents to decimals.
4. Convert fractions to decimals and decimals to fractions.
5. Explain what the metric system is and how it is important in the construction trades.
6. Identify and use metric units of length, weight, volume, and temperature.
7. Identify some of the basic shapes used in the construction industry and apply basic geometry to measure them.

Interpreting Blueprints

1. Identify basic blueprint terms, components, and symbols.
2. Relate information on blueprints to actual locations on the print.
3. Identify different classifications of drawings.
4. Interpret and use drawing dimensions.
5. Read/interpret scale.

Basic Rigging

1. Describe the use of slings and common rigging hardware.
2. Describe the basic inspection techniques and rejection criteria used for slings and hardware.
3. Describe the basic hitch configurations and their proper connections.
4. Describe basic load-handling safety practices.
5. Demonstrate proper use of American National Standards Institute (ANSI) hand signals.

Using Communication Skills

1. Demonstrate the ability to understand information and instructions that are presented in both written and oral form.
2. Demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively in on-the-job situations, using written and oral communication skills.

Performing Basic Carpentry Skills

1. Determine levelness and plumbness of surfaces, using a level.
2. Handle/store materials.
3. Identify materials.
4. Maintain/make minor adjustments to hand tools.

Cutting and Shaping Stock

1. Cut miter joint.

Assembling and Fastening Components

1. Apply clamping devices.
2. Fasten stock with metal fasteners (for example, nails, screws, staples, and other mechanical fasteners).
3. Identify nailing schedules for selected materials according to local building codes.
4. Explain the safe use of nail guns.

Estimating and Selecting Materials

1. Determine materials from a blueprint.
2. Estimate labor and material cost.
3. Determine proper use of materials.

Building and Installing Foundations and Forms

1. Set up builder's level.
2. Establish elevation points from a benchmark.
3. Install batter boards.
4. Construct and align various footing forms to include keyways, bulkheads, dowels, and anchorages.
5. Construct and align foundation wall and wall forms to include pilasters and beam pockets.
6. Construct and align column and pier forms.
7. Describe wall-framing techniques used in masonry construction.
8. Describe the installation of window and door jambs in masonry openings.
9. Maintain form materials properly.

Framing a Floor

1. Check condition of foundation to comply with local building codes before framing begins.
2. Install sill plate.
3. Install solid or composite wood beam/girder.
4. Install lally column.
5. Read/lay out floor framing detail on sill plate.
6. Cut and crown floor joists.
7. Frame floor opening.
8. Install floor joists, including cantilever floor joists.
9. Install bridging and blocking.
10. Install subfloor sheathing.
11. Select appropriate floor-framing fasteners and adhesives.

Framing Walls

1. Lay out floor deck for walls.
2. Install wall blocking (backing).
3. Install fire stops.
4. Install corner brace.
5. Install exterior wall sheathing.

Framing a Ceiling

1. Read ceiling layout/lay out ceiling framing detail on top wall plate.
2. Cut ceiling joists.
3. Install ceiling joists.
4. Frame ceiling opening.
5. Install strongback (stiffener or catwalk).

Framing a Roof

1. Read/lay out roof framing detail on cap plate.
2. Read/lay out common, header, and cripple rafters.
3. Lay out common rafter as a pattern.
4. Reproduce common rafters from a pattern.
5. Install ridgeboard.
6. Frame roof opening.
7. Install rafters.
8. Frame gable end.
9. Frame blind valley (overlay valley).
10. Frame gable dormer.
11. Frame shed dormer.
12. Install collar beams (rafter ties).
13. Install purlins.
14. Install roof sheathing.
15. Frame chimney saddle (cricket).
16. Read/lay out gambrel rafters, valley rafters, valley jack rafters, tail rafters, hip rafters, hip jack rafters, and cripple jack rafters, using speed square, framing square, and calculator.
17. Install gambrel rafters, valley rafters, valley jack rafters, tail rafters, hip rafters, hip jack rafters, and cripple jack rafters.

Installing Trusses

1. Read truss detail and lay out for truss installation.
2. Describe the safe selection, setting, and anchoring of trusses by hand or by crane.
3. Brace roof assembly.
4. Frame opening in roof assembly.

Installing Roofing

1. Install valley flashing.
2. Install composite shingles in valley.
3. Install composite shingles around roof opening.
4. Identify attic area ventilators.

Constructing and Installing Stairs

1. Calculate rise and run for stairs.
2. Lay out straight run stair stringer.
3. Cut stair component.
4. Construct unfinished stair unit.

Installing Exterior Doors and Windows

1. Install prehung exterior door units.
2. Install garage door and jamb.
3. Install prehung windows.

Framing Decks and Porches

1. Review building codes related to decks.
2. Install footings.
3. Identify superstructure of attachment.
4. Install ledger board, fasteners, and flashing.
5. Install wood support and post.
6. Install wood beam or girder.
7. Install deck joist.
8. Install decking material.
9. Install railings.

Installing Exterior Finishes

1. Construct box and rake cornice.
2. Install facia.
3. Install soffit.
4. Cut and install corner board for siding.
5. Install siding and accompanying accessories.

Installing Interior Finishes

1. Install gypsum board.
2. Install paneling and trim.
3. Install shelving.
4. Install baseboard.
5. Install ceiling molding.
6. Case interior opening.
7. Install interior door jamb.
8. Install prehung interior door unit.
9. Install sliding, bi-fold, swinging, or pocket door.
10. Install cylinder lockset.
11. Install weather stripping.
12. Construct open shelving.

Transporting and Installing Cabinets

1. Prepare cabinets for hauling.
2. Unload and prepare wall and base cabinets for installation.
3. Stage/install wall and base cabinets.
4. Install base cabinet and hardware.
5. Select prefabricated cabinets.
6. Install prefabricated counter tops.