Qualifications
Relevant Trade Certificate III in carpentry or equivalent work experience required with a Minimum three years' trade carpentry formwork experience. Must have own transport and tools and current police clearance. The right candidate must be reliable, flexible and hardworking with a full knowledge of all OH&S practices.
Key Skills
* read and interpret working plans and blue prints,
* be proficient in measuring and cutting (as premade form sizes don't always match the exact structure dimensions), construct fillers to bridge gaps.
* Assemble manufactured structures (forms), made from steel, wood or heavy plastic.
* Carry heavy forms, spray them with oil to keep the concrete from sticking, secures forms with iron rods and insert steel reinforcement to give the concrete strength.
* Once the concrete sets, strip the forms, clean them and prep them for the next project.
Responsibilities
* In the case of high-rise buildings and tall structures, build new forms on top of previously poured concrete (slipforming), where the work follows a repetitive process of forming, pouring, forming and pouring.
* Pouring of vertical concrete installations and removal, framing and decking operations, pouring of vertical concrete, distinguishing between different types of material and equipment.
* Carry out setting out, levelling operations with accurate measurements and calculations
* Erect and dismantle formwork for footings and slabs on ground
* Construct, erect and dismantle formwork for stairs and ramps
* Erect and dismantle formwork to suspended slabs, columns, beams and walls
* Erect and dismantle jump form formwork
* Erect and dismantle slip form formwork
* Operate elevated work platforms
Physical Requirements
* Working during inclement weather, could be exposed to extreme cold and heat, noise and dust from construction operations depending upon project site.
* Frequently lifting, carrying, pushing and pulling up to 25kg of material and up to 50kg of material with assistance, if requested.
* Frequently walking, stooping, kneeling, reaching and climbing.
* Frequent use of hand tools such as concrete pokers, jumping jacks, compactors, power tools, circular saws, hammers, nails, and bolts.
* Work requires alert individuals with good balance and physical strength.
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