What is a Carpenter?
Carpenters work with many tools and materials to build schools, erect skyscrapers, construct bridges, tunnels and highways. Just about every building in your community was at least partially built by skilled journeyman carpenters. To be a carpenter is to be a member of one of the oldest and most respected trades. You can build a lifetime career in carpentry, if you like working with tools and like to create things.

What is a Millwright?
Millwrights are an elite group who work primarily in metal and with machinery and equipment requiring precision. If you like to work with machine tools and precision instruments, and have a keen eye for the perfect fit and have a good grasp of mathematics, you might consider being a millwright. Millwrights sometime work to specifications requiring tolerances to a thousandth of an inch. They install escalators, giant electrical turbines and generators. Millwrights install and perform maintenance on machinery in factories, as well as much of the precision work in nuclear power plants. They are also skilled construction mechanics who study and interpret blueprints, and then put their knowledge and expertise to work drilling, welding, bolting and doing whatever else is necessary to assure that the cogs of industry are in perfect working order.

What is a Residential Carpenter?
Residential carpenters are the primary craft workers on homes, apartments and condominiums. They assemble and erect the frameworks of residences. They build the partitions, install the flooring, and do much of the finish work, often staying on a particular job from the start until completion. The residential carpenter has experience in nearly every aspect of residential construction.

What is a Interior Systems Carpenter?
Here is an expanding field of work which offers challenges to many young people entering the construction trades. It involves the installation of a variety of factory-produced systems and construction materials in commercial buildings and public structures. Specialized skills are brought into play as they assemble complex interior systems using technical data supplied by manufacturers. From acoustical ceiling systems to metal doors, jambs and hardware the Interior Systems Carpenter is the vanguard in modular construction methods.

What is a Cabinet Maker/Millworker?
Cabinet makers and millworkers cut, shape and assemble quality wood products, including cabinets, moldings, panels and furniture. They also fabricate store fixtures, which often includes the use of metals, plastics, and glass. Cabinetmakers and millworkers operate a number of machines, including power saws, planers, joiners, shapers and other woodworking machinery.

What is a Floorlayer?
The installation of carpeting, hardwood flooring, soft tiles and linoleum-type products made of vinyl and rubber is the work of the floorlayer. They cut, fit and install hardwood flooring and various types of underlayment to ensure smooth, level surfaces for the finished floor. They also scribe, cut, fit layout and seam tile and sheet stock in a variety of patterns. They are skillful in cutting, binding, sewing, and installing carpet. They work from the specifications of architects and interior designers, and must be good at estimating materials and doing layout. One of their specialties is geometrical designs in floors which sometimes require the installation of inlaid pieces.